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8 New Business Keys To Success For Real Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Who would not want to join the unicorns (recent startups with a current valuation of over $1 billion)? The days of lengthy, text-heavy, business plan documents prepared by expensive experts are behind us. Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging.

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8 Tips For Getting Your Startup Right The First Time

Startup Professionals Musings

Who would not want to join the unicorns (recent startups with a current valuation of over $1 billion)? The days of lengthy, text-heavy, business plan documents prepared by expensive experts are behind us. Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging.

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How to Optimize SaaS Development Costs

Up and Running

In the last decade, SaaS (Software as a Service) has become a very popular model for new software product development. The largest cost component of establishing a SaaS company is product development costs. This includes the design, development, launch, and enhancement of the SaaS application. .

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7 Keys To Scaling Your Startup To Be The Next Unicorn

Startup Professionals Musings

When you see startups like SpaceX and Pinterest grow from a low valuation to a billion dollars in just a few years, it’s easy to assume that if you just keep doing what you are doing, you can get there as well. Switch your focus from product development to sales. Drive productivity and engagement through shared values.

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NextView’s Greatest Hits

View from Seed

” Below are our favorite pieces from the past few years, divided in to a few key categories: fundraising, company building, product development, industry trends, and the life of a VC. What Are Your Valuation Expectations? So, we decided to aggregate NextView’s “greatest hits.” ” (Rob Go).

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8 Secrets To Pushing Your Startup Ahead Of The Crowd

Startup Professionals Musings

Who would not want to joint the unicorns (recent startups with a current valuation of over $1 billion)? The days of lengthy, text-heavy, business plan documents prepared by expensive experts are behind us. Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging.

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Why I left Wall Street to figure it out.

Austin Startup

So after the prototype, I took my rideshare & delivery earnings (I had taken up driving on the side before and after my after-school job to fill the money blanks) and threw it into product development to get something truly functional, a test version. After that, we had something much better?—?it it was now clickable!