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The Maker Movement Is A New Mecca For Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Events for enthusiasts, called Maker Faires, now stretch far outside California to places such as Detroit, New York and even Shenzhen, China. In today’s fast moving market, the basic product development cost and time are critical to survival. A recent California event packed in 100,000 people.

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What Top Performers at Startups and Large Organizations Have in Common…More Than You Would Think

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, there’s a high school principal in my book who was leading a severely under-performing school in Detroit where 80% of students were on food stamps. That means that they experiment and pivot from time to time, just like startups. Many people in our data reported work environments where people “do more, then stress”.

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How to Build a Startup Team

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be the manager and product developer). Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006. Team Roles: There are six main roles that most new organizations need to consider in some capacity.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

[link] Seth Sternberg Hey Andrew – I definitely think business school types can form a great founding team – they just need to team up with folks who can actually help build the product! When I work with clients who have a product (website) they want to create I tell them to make something and see what the response is.