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29 Seriously Inspiring Interviews For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

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Lauren Bush at Under30CEO , April 21, 2011 : Lauren Bush, co-founder of FEED Projects, discusses how she applied her entrepreneurial skills to the nonprofit, social justice sector. Mark Bao launched three nonprofits and 11 Internet-based companies by age 17, some of which he wound up selling and earning a comfortable profit.

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

When I was a kid, the way I logged onto the internet for the first time (to play MUDs, naturally) was through an open dial-up console at San Diego State University. No logins, no codes, just raw uncensored internet access. Then you set up a web app to co-ordinate volunteers who can wipe a hard drive and install Ubuntu.

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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

It’s entirely possible for the startup to be a massive success without having large aggregate numbers, because the startup has succeeded in finding a passionate, but small, early adopter base that has tremendous per-customer behavior. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you?

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. More on that in a moment. They are close to breakeven.

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Transportation, On-Demand And The Asian Economy – Asian Horizons

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by Samar Singla, founder of Click Labs. Thus, having a business environment that is conducive for technological growth is necessary, and it is also the reason why many South Asian countries aside from Japan are hardly mentioned in the big game. Co-operation and Synergy. You can find Samar on Twitter and LinkedIn. .

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Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events

Startup Lessons Learned

Ash Maurya is the founder of WiredReach , a bootstrapped startup that he has been running for seven years. Examples of things I monitor are the numbers of user activations, active users, and aggregate page hits to user galleries. Ash Maurya is the founder of WiredReach , a bootstrapped startup that he has been running for seven years.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

And thanks to the radical transparency enabled by the internet, the quality of these proposals is actually constantly rising, to the point that it’s almost impossible to judge the quality of the final product – because all the proposals look polished and professional, even the terrible ones.