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Speed up or slow down? (for Harvard Business Review)

Startup Lessons Learned

It usually looks like this: the can-do attitude and high-bandwidth communication that characterized the first few iterations have produced magic. It usually looks like this: the can-do attitude and high-bandwidth communication that characterized the first few iterations have produced magic. Expo SF (May.

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6 Startup Challenges That Can Be Mitigated With Focus

Startup Professionals Musings

In fact, there are a host of reasons why a non-focused startup business is more likely to struggle for survival, lose market and investor attention, and miss out on the opportunity to capitalize on their scope: Time to market is tied to the size of your offering. It’s tough for an elephant to be agile.

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6 Reasons Why More Is Not Better In Your Next Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

In fact, there are a host of reasons why a non-focused startup business is more likely to struggle for survival, lose market and investor attention, and miss out on the opportunity to capitalize on their scope: Time to market is tied to the size of your offering. It’s tough for an elephant to be agile.

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Essentials For Your Startup Infrastructure Build-Out

The Startup Magazine

To keep costs low, the smallest startups can host nearly everything in the cloud. Cloud hosted solutions give every startup the ability to scale as much as they need. This way, you don’t have to pay for any servers or bandwidth that you don’t need. As a result, your startup will be able to take an agile approach to development.

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6 Ways That Lack Of Focus Can Kill Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

In fact, there are a host of reasons why a non-focused startup business is more likely to struggle for survival, lose market and investor attention, and miss out on the opportunity to capitalize on their scope: Time to market is tied to the size of your offering. It’s tough for an elephant to be agile.

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Lo, my 2295 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

Your writings are so very thought provoking, and now reading them will take a slice of my ever diminishing bandwidth. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down?

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6 Reasons Why Bigger Is Not Better In Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

In fact, there are a host of reasons why a non-focused startup business is more likely to struggle for survival, lose market and investor attention, and miss out on the opportunity to capitalize on their scope: Time to market is tied to the size of your offering. It’s tough for an elephant to be agile.

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