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Is This Ex-Googler’s Pre-Product Approach the Fast Track to Product-Market Fit?

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He’s dubbed the approach “ pretotyping ,” and it shares many of the same principles as both its similar-sounding (if later-stage) cousin, prototyping, as well as the more well-known lean startup movement. NVV: Lots of entrepreneurs reading this will think about the lean startup movement when they hear about pretotyping.

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The End of Syndication

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At this point, the investor and the entrepreneur work together to develop their perfect list of potential partners, and then do targeted outreach to try to bring this investor into the round. The other is that I think both investors and entrepreneurs are getting much more efficient about reaching one another.

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What Boston’s Top Consumer Tech Leaders Think About Boston’s Consumer Tech Struggles [#BostonB2C Recap]

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We pulled together a lineup of A-list speakers, healined by TripAdvisor CEO Steve Kaufer, Wayfair CEO Niraj Shah, and Spark Capital founder and partner Bijan Sabet, among other very talented entrepreneurs and thinkers. bijan : there’s a danger in leaning on pattern recognition. Ben Yudysky (@BenYudysky) July 21, 2015.

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The 4 Types of Stories Founders Need to Tell When Fundraising

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Then, also in the 1880s, some clever American entrepreneurs decided to market a “fast growing, shade generating” plant to the overly warm citizens living the waltz-dancing climate of the south-eastern United States. million acres of land. “We We are raising this seed to go do X”…. then go do X.

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The State of NYC Seed: Startup Trends & VC Data [REPORT]

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As a further mimic of its host city, New York tech stands tall and stubborn, with a never-say-die presence through flush times and lean. Not unlike Gotham itself, the tech ecosystem bobs and weaves to a nebulous beat. But our conversations at NextView have always ended in excited chatter about the New York opportunity.

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Exploring the NextView Platform? Start Here

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Because of both lean startup principles and a thriving community of pay-it-forward individuals, we can all now build a little, learn a little, and then repeat. We want to create the go-to hub for entrepreneurs and startup teams going from zero to one in absolutely anything important. Even cheese gets its own go-to hub online.

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How a Seed-Stage Startup Should Think About Brand: A Conversation With Jesse Derris

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Jay: How should a tech entrepreneur frame “brand” as an idea in the first place? What are some common, early mistakes entrepreneurs make when developing their company’s brand identity and message? Can you still operate in some kind of lean or scrappy way and launch a brand that resonates with the market?