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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, July 29, 2009 Embrace technical debt Financial debt plays an important and positive role in our economy under normal conditions. Technical debt works the same way, and has the same perils. I won’t pretend that there aren’t teams that take on technical debt for bad reasons.

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How to Get Sponsorship for Your Business, Book or Podcast

ConversionXL

Lean on your professional networks too. It contains the story of your property, mission statement, sponsor benefits, demographics, marketing plan, goals, media opportunities, advisory board, and the sponsor fees.”. If you have testimonials or reviews, add them to give weight to your offer. Are they a potential sponsor?

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What do investors REALLY want?

Up and Running

If you have good experience then the VC will be leaning forward for the rest of the presentation.”. To demonstrate traction you might recruit a good management team, start making sales, build an advisory board or secure strategic partnerships. Are they involved in similar projects that share the same market/technologies as you?

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #11: New Year’s advice for middle-aged people

Austin Startup

As I’ve mentioned in several Lucky7 posts before, we are living in the Golden Age of Technology ( here’s one of those posts ). Since I first wrote about the Golden Age in 2014, valuations for tech companies have only increased?—?rather rather dramatically. People stepping down will constantly remind themselves where they are from.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part X: Stanford Crosses the.

Steve Blank

Other universities doing classified ELINT and Electronic Warfare work attended including University of Michigan, Georgia Institute of Technology and Cornell. Over a hundred government contractors reviewed Stanford’s work on tubes and systems. The future of the valley was clear – microwaves.

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90 Things I've Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies

betashop.com

90 Things I’ve Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies. On October 27, 2010 I wrote a blog post about the “ 57 Things I Learned Founding 3 Tech Companies.”. 90 Things I’ve Learned Founding 4 Tech Companies: Find your company’s One Thing. ?? We do twice-yearly reviews of all Fab team members. So, here goes.

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The curse of prevention

Startup Lessons Learned

Due to an interaction effect between your hardware, solar flares, and quantum flux, this virus will crash your computer and erase your hard drive sometime soon. And I’ve seen companies fail the other way – the so-called Friendster effect: having a high-profile technical failure just when customer adoption is going wild.