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Unlocking Your Unfair Advantage: How Your Unique Story Powers Your Entrepreneurial Success

Duct Tape Marketing

And it's the same thing for individuals because at that early stage of a business, when you don't yet have a product, even sometimes when you don't yet have customers, you don't yet have traction and sales, how are you going to judge it? These are the kind of decisions we wanted to help people with at that early stage.

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Uncovering The Hidden Power Of Your Unfair Advantage

Duct Tape Marketing

And it's the same thing for individuals because at that early stage of a business, when you don't yet have a product, even sometimes when you don't yet have, um, customers, you don't yet have traction in sales, how are you gonna judge it? These are the kind of decisions we wanted to help people with at that early stage.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. We are coaching VCs and Angel Investors everyday who call us wanting to understand our Early Stage LPO versus late stage IPO approach to business. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. We are coaching VCs and Angel Investors everyday who call us wanting to understand our Early Stage LPO versus late stage IPO approach to business. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc.

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Preparing for Chaos – the Life of a Startup « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

This book may be the Iraq war equivalent of “ Dispatches &# which defined Vietnam for my generation. Both reminded me why National Service would be a very good idea.) Every potential startup founder should think about their level of comfort operating in chaos and uncertainty. It may not be for you.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 5

Steve Blank

And if we want them to understand what life outside the classroom in an early stage venture will look like, then they need to experience chaos, conflicting data, uncertainty and good-enough decision making for 10 confusing weeks. This helped them refine their map of how IED information flows (slide 6).

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 5

Steve Blank

And if we want them to understand what life outside the classroom in an early stage venture will look like, then they need to experience chaos, conflicting data, uncertainty and good-enough decision making for 10 confusing weeks. This helped them refine their map of how IED information flows (slide 6).

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