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4 Tips For Startups During A Pandemic

YoungUpstarts

Contributing seed money to an employee’s HSA or 401K, or instituting a match program for contributions, can encourage employees to save. People still spend money in the lean times — in fact they are much more likely to spend money on small luxury items when they are holding off on big purchases.

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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret

cdixon.org

The only thing I wouldn’t do is to post it on the internet. link] Lean Startups Blog – rants and raves from the startup trenches. link] What’s the right amount of seed money to raise? link] 200+ Startup Questions Distilled Down To Five | Startup Lean. [.] link] Marco. Ideas are worthless!!! link] Quora.

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Figuring Out FourSquare

Seeing Both Sides

At the same time, the foursquare team was incredibly skilled at applying lean start-up best practices, specifically: Product-obsessed founders : both Dennis and Naveen were consumed with the product. Dennis wrote a great post at the time of the financing that showed just how product obsessed he was, even after taking the seed money.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

I need money for the servers. Here’s the rub: in consumer internet (and often enterprise), if your founding team doesn’t have the chops to get a prototype of your product out and in the hands of a blogger to test and write about, you might as well save yourself a lot of pain – you’re not going anywhere. I don’t know any developers.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

If you are raising a seed round now, there are a few things you can do to protect yourself. There are still the same debates on whether or not you should take seed money from VCs. Pandora begs Congress to lower Internet music licensing rates. Syria shuts down Internet in attempt to quell uprising.