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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.

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How To Choose A Market For Your Startup Or Small Business

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. … Due to the relatively small potential contract values in restaurants, startups serving these customer segments have to build very efficient sales teams or online customer acquisition tools to aggregate many of them inexpensively. Lean Marketing: Five Cheap Ways To Market Your Startup. image credit: DonnitaMae.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. First of all, they are not selling their product by hand.

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Crisis versus Opportunity: 6 Ways to Bootstrap a Startup in a Post-COVID-19 World While Navigating the New Normal

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Governor Cuomo, governor of New York State, USA, highlighted the quintessential issue with the coronavirus pandemic in his conversation with Howard Stern on 13 April 2020. Implement the “lean startup” philosophy. It has also affected people’s mental, emotional, and physical health. Attract customers through content marketing.

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Small Business and the Death of Newspapers

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For much of the past five years academics, journalists, bloggers, and assorted mass-media-tag-alongs have been heralding the “ death of newspapers ,” the downfall of the publishing industry and the collapse of information distribution as we know it. Team Coco and the new world of digital marketing. Leverage your friends.

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Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business)

Startup Lessons Learned

Even the most radical Bell Curve -style thinkers have to concede that even if there are differences between men and women in the distribution of these traits on average, these curve have substantial overlap, and there should still be a lot more of them represented in high-tech startups. So why is demographic diversity important?

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Using memcacheds multiget, which allows the fetching of many keys in parallel, I have written code to aggregate all the shard lookups for a given page and prefetch them, reducing the overhead even further. This is great for something like a huge DHT or a distributed work queue. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.