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Make The Most Of Your Next VC Pitch By Doing These 10 Things

YoungUpstarts

by Lu Zhang, founder and managing partner of Fusion Fund. Competition from other startups and established incumbents, constraints on time and capital, and limited access to talent and technology resources are just a few of the hurdles nearly every first-time founder faces while trying to build a business.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process.

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10 Concrete Steps to Assure Business Innovation

Startup Professionals Musings

In a startup, that needs to be the founder or CEO, and that person has to be regularly and personally involved. New product development process. Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. This is an imperative.

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Fear of Failure and Lack of Speed In a Large Corporation

Steve Blank

And worse, even if someone does manage to start something new, our management structure has so many financial, legal and HR hurdles that every initiative needs to match our existing business financial metrics, processes and procedures. Bob looked wistful, “Our founders built a company known for taking risks and moving fast.

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Ten Principles Which Spell Continuous Innovation

Startup Professionals Musings

In a startup, that needs to be the founder or CEO, and that person has to be regularly and personally involved. New product development process. Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. This is an imperative.

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Ten Steps to Survival by Innovation

Startup Professionals Musings

In a startup, that needs to be the founder or CEO, and that person has to be regularly and personally involved. New product development process. Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. This is an imperative.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. IP Location Tools. Startup Metrics for Pirates â?? SaaS Metrics Tutorial â?? Great for visualizing work of product development.