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Lessons Learned: Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a.

Startup Lessons Learned

Then, the company spends no more than a few hundred dollars marketing the product through search engines and to the contacts in its sales database and LinkedIn. We do not develop a product until we get a paying customer," says Orit Pennington , who co-founded the six-employee company with her husband in 2002.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc. It was very educational for a lot of us to go through the dot-com crash, because you remember, in 2002, like there were a number of universal truths asserted in 2002; the Internet didn’t matter, consumer Internet business was dead. are all precursors, rumbles before the big boom.