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What is a CTO?

Austin Startup

They will manage the steps necessary to identify, select, and integrate your software and IT vendors, including third party product dependencies, email, network, wiki, intranet, project management, and telecommunications. Acquisitions at HomeAway were uniquely challenging as they were primarily business driven decisions.

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Why we need to teach MBA’s about modern entrepreneurship (and what Harvard Business School is doing about it)

Startup Lessons Learned

But who do you think makes those acquisition decisions? Far too many of these acquisitions go nowhere. When they get burned by a wave of acquisitions that turn out to be value destroying, the rest of us suffer the resulting lack of liquidity that is so important to the startup ecosystem. This class is just the beginning.

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The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science

Steve Blank

Start your blog/wiki/journal. Update your blog/wiki/journal. What are your hypotheses around customer acquisition costs? Update your blog/wiki/journal. Actually engage in “search engine marketing” (SEM)spend $20 as a team to test customer acquisition cost. Update your blog/wiki/journal.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?) Bring your questions.

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From 160 Hours to 10: A Tale of Agile Business Practices

Software By Rob

I have a page on our wiki for codifying processes so for instance wiki/processes/billing/purchaseOrders/newQuote would have a recipe for what’s involved in handling the task of issuing a new quote to a customer that wants to pay via PO. You create a _process_ for everything. Sean #7 Rob on 04.08.10

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Paul Graham on fundraising

Startup Lessons Learned

Its the same with acquisitions. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. No one wants to buy you till someone else wants to buy you, and then everyone wants to buy you. The key to closing deals is never to stop pursuing alternatives. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.