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The 4 Types of Stories Founders Need to Tell When Fundraising

View from Seed

Who better to advocate for the capability of the disabled than Keller, who not only triumphed and demonstrated communication competency, but a mastery of all forms of communication? Stuart Butterfield had a vision for a non-violent MMO, and founded Tiny Speck to bring that vision to life. What makes you so special?” then go do X.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

This approach is fundamentally non-scalable. 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. They are closing orders. They are gaining valuable customer data. They are close to breakeven. What’s the problem?

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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Tony P great, though meebo’s place as a “successful&# start up is still open to debate – from consumer IM aggregator to white label IM, still not making big $$. No lying 3 Pitch the technical puzzles attempting to solve 99.9999% of non-technical founders/co-founders get 2 out of 3 of these points wrong.

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Crushing It With Competitive Intelligence Analysis: Best Metrics, Reports

Occam's Razor

Here is the data for this blog from another tool I really like and use a lot, Compete … It is pretty close to reality, though everything from Dec '13 through mid-year is imprecise. In this post I've used Compete, Hitwise, SimilarWeb for site-centric analysis. It does not show data for non-US visitors to your site.

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Startup Resources

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Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources. Lean Startup Circle â?? questions and answers for non-programmers. Lean project management. aggregation. Codeacademy. Steve Blank. SW Courses. Part 1- Intro.

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The Ezra Klein Show: VC Bill Gurley on Transforming Health Care

abovethecrowd.com

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. Bill Gurley : I’ll give you a non-healthcare version real quick.