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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

And then from there, I was running a fitness company on the west coast by the name of 24 Hour Fitness, which was private equity backed and quite a bit of debt. And the truth is that's yesterday and you don't really have the ability to change what you did yesterday, but what you do have the ability today, is to lean into this.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

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How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? Ideally you can pay them based + equity so that you’ll get their attention and focus on the project. How does that usually work?

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Uber’s New BHAG: UberPool

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Armed with this new data, Uber leaned on its legendary “math department” to help drive prices even lower. Sam Walton and Jeff Bezos both espoused the benefits of rewarding customers with the highest possible value by delivering to them the lowest possible prices.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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Startup Tools

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AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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Startup Resources

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Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources. Lean Startup Circle â?? Lean project management. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Founder Equity Issues. Venture Hacks equity section.