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Create Structure out of the Gate and You’ll Thank Yourself Later

Feld Thoughts

His most recent company, Filtrbox, participated in the inaugural Techstars class (Techstars Boulder 2007) and was a win for all parties involved; Filtrbox was acquired in 2010 by Jive Software (NASDAQ: JIVE). They close on the $750k, hire a buddy or two, buy some Macs, and get to work. Seven months in, there is a beta product.

Burn Rate 152
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WTF is Traction? A 6-Step Relationship Guide to VC

Both Sides of the Table

Traction can simply mean showing that you’re making progress with customers, product development, channel partners, initial revenue as a proof point, attracting well-known angel investors, winning industry awards / recognition. They tell you they’re going to ship product and they do. They hire key staff.

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Minimum Viable Team

This is going to be BIG.

Who should you hire? In a way, you can think of BD as “sales when you don’t know what the product is yet.” It’s basically working with potential outside partners to reach your business goals--which could be revenue, distribution, financing, product development, awareness, etc. How are you ever going to get it done?

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Practical Strategies For Starting A Business

Duct Tape Marketing

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Steve Hoffman (06:08): If you don't get the right people on board, you know, hire them really hard to succeed, marketing, getting your name out. Like if you wanna do a startup and you're really just like, love the coding, do the coding and get somebody else.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. s the new way to code, and quite easy to learn. You can write back end code in javascript, one language conquers all! Code Igniter. Code Hosting and Version Control. code spaces (svn). WorkingPoint.

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Good enough never is (or is it?)

Startup Lessons Learned

One of the sayings I hear from talented managers in product development is, “good enough never is.&# And, most importantly, it helps team members develop the courage to stand up for these values in stressful situations. Over time, such teams either explode due to irreconcilable differences or dramatically slow down.

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

And we were fortunate to have Steve Blank , the originator of customer development, on our board to keep us honest. Code To make split-testing pervasive, it has to be incredibly easy. Whenever you are developing a new feature, or modifying an existing feature, you already have a split-test situation. Great post Eric!