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10 Financing Alternatives For Your Next New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. Software apps that once required a 10-person team can now be done with the Lean Development methodology by two people in a couple of months.

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10 Strategies To Cover New Product Development Costs

Startup Professionals Musings

If your offering is exciting enough, you may get millions in small amounts from other people on the Internet to help you fly high over the valley of death. This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies.

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10 Keys To Surviving Startup Cash Flow Requirements

Startup Professionals Musings

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. Software apps that once required a 10-person team can now be done with the Lean Development methodology by two people in a couple of months.

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Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. Its a key lean startup concept.

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10 Startup Strategies To Minimize Cash Flow Disasters

Startup Professionals Musings

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. Software apps that once required a 10-person team can now be done with the Lean Development methodology by two people in a couple of months.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

I’ve watched the Valley go from Microwave Valley – to Defense Valley – to Silicon Valley to Internet Valley. And to today, when its major product is simply innovation. the wave of internet commerce applications in the first decade of the 21st century. In the 1950’s and ‘60’s U.S.

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Why More Funding Won’t Magically Fix Your Startup

Mucker Lab

Compass.co, a benchmarking and research service, analyzed 3,200 internet startups and found that 74 percent “fail due to premature scaling.” These lost startups land higher valuations, have larger teams, outsource more product development and spend more money on customer acquisition than their peers.

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