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Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up

Startup Lessons Learned

The same has been true of an unfortunate number of startups, they manage to generate a lot of hype, raise a lot of money, and sometimes make some of their investors, employees, or founders rich. bigs : @ericries says Stealth dev is a (undesirable, failure-presaging) customer-free zone. Danger, Will Robinson. Iterating at whiteboard !=

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

What are “Reg D” filings with the SEC and why does this make it harder to stay in stealth mode? I asked some of the participating VCs, and they told me their attorneys had figured out a way to keep their stealth-mode companies stealthy.Yes, this strategy is not for every company. We spoke briefly about why.

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

Now were not exactly in stealth-mode - weve pitched at Techcrunch - but Id rather not go dancing in my competitors faces. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.

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How to conduct a Five Whys root cause analysis

Startup Lessons Learned

We started with a simple wiki page with a few bullet points of things that new engineers had tripped over recently. I feel like I would have to introduce this by stealth. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. In fact, at IMVU, we did exactly that. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Lessons Learned: Achieving a failure

Startup Lessons Learned

Build the product in stealth mode to build buzz for the eventual launch. Stealth is a customer-free zone. I know of at least five former employees that went on to become startup founders. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. And what happened with this ill-fated company?