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7 Keys To Scaling Your Startup To Be The Next Unicorn

Startup Professionals Musings

Many entrepreneurs never get past their first-stage focus on their innovative product, to scaling the business globally, organizing a structure to handle thousands of employees, and concentrating their focus “on the business” rather than working “in the business.” Switch your focus from product development to sales.

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Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot

Startup Lessons Learned

In the early fall of 2009, as kaChing prepared for its marketplace launch, the management team showed the app—which included real time market data, SEC-grade accounting, analytics, compliance and customer management tools—to a number of investment pros to get feedback and endorsements. Thus far the results are encouraging.

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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!

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Beware The Consultant

infochachkie.com

Unlike employee training costs, which can typically be spread over years of service, the relative return from training a consultant is modest and pricey. Such positions include: PR, Sales, Product Development, Lead Generation, Strategic Planning, Fund Raising, etc.

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What is the perfect startup team?

www.quora.com

3 votes by Vincent van Wylick , Saul Klein and Donald Tang As someone who specializes in employee analysis and team development I love this question. He correctly identifies the three disciplines that have to be represented in a balanced and collaborative manner: developer, designer, distributer. Saul’s answer was excellent.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Great for visualizing work of product development. BambooHR - Employee Records, Benefit Information, Payroll Data, etc. project management visually see and interact with your work. Kanbanery â?? Simple online team or personal kanban board. LeanKit Kanban â?? Kanban Pad â?? Nice and leanâ?? and free online Kanban tool.