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The Planned Iteration Startup Launch Minimizes Risk

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Eric Ries on Lean Startup methodology, via Wikipedia. I strongly recommend a dramatic departure from this model, called “planned iteration” or Lean Startup methodology, where you assume you won’t get it right the first time, so you launch with a minimum viable product (MVP). Find customers, partners and channels early.

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Craft a Lean Business Plan to Serve as Your Venture’s Roadmap

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But since these days everyone worships at the altar of the lean startup, it’s common knowledge that a business plan is “old school” and completely useless. The post Craft a Lean Business Plan to Serve as Your Venture’s Roadmap appeared first on Gust. All you need is a slide deck and a great team, right?

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10 C-Level Positions That Are Red Flags For Funding

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It’s your startup, so you can give early partners any title you want, but be aware of potential investor and peer implications. VCs and Angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. Image via Wikimedia Commons. Chief Brand Officer.

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The Planned Iteration Startup Launch Minimizes Risk

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Eric Ries on Lean Startup methodology, via Wikipedia. I strongly recommend a dramatic departure from this model, called “planned iteration” or Lean Startup methodology, where you assume you won’t get Read more >. Invested Interests agile entrepreneur lean startup pivot'

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Build a MVP and Validate Your Plan with Customers

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By this point, the word “lean” has been so used so frequently and in so many contexts that you could be forgiven for thinking that it was completely meaningless. The reason the term—and the thinking that it represents—has swept the startup world is because it makes fundamental sense. But it’s actually quite the opposite.

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10 Incentives For Entrepreneurs To Bootstrap Their Startup

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In my experience, that’s actually the worst way to start, for reasons I will outline here, and also the least common way, according to an authoritative survey of new startups. Focusing on the burn rate and prioritizing every possible expense will keep overhead down, help you stay lean, and achieve a higher profit earlier.

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Why aren’t venture capitalists lean and scrappy like the startups they fund?

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This isn’t a question of hypocrisy, because the two roles aren’t at all analogous. Plato’s definition of beauty was “fitness to the end in view”, and the skills and characteristics that make for a great VC are quite different from those that make for a great entrepreneur.

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