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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

People talk about funding funding funding, bootstrapping, etc., Transitioning from founder sold bootstrapped revenue to a functioning sales team is certainly possible. Then we could focus on standardizing a product that could have an automated sales cycle online. And will lead to longer term success.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

In 2008, he founded StackOverflow , and it has become the foundation for a question and answer platform called StackExchange. It helps with sales cycles because customers know that they can switch away if they so choose. Juno IPO’d while Joel was there, and it was the first “broken&# IPO of the dot-com era.