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27 Entrepreneurs Share Tips on Building an Ecommerce Business

Hearpreneur

I also suggest protecting your brand by trademarking your business name, ensuring it's uniquely yours. The first step is to have a domain name that matches your business name. First and foremost, consider hiring an attorney to assist you in setting up your business structure, drafting contracts, and establishing store policies.

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Why Entrepreneur Advisors Matter

Agile VC

We frequently tell entrepreneurs that advisors who are just names on a page are kind of a waste of time. So if they’re not just names on a page, how are these entrepreneur advisors involved with us at NextView and our portfolio companies? The Purpose of Entrepreneur Advisors​.

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Why Entrepreneur Advisors Matter

Agile VC

We frequently tell entrepreneurs that advisors who are just names on a page are kind of a waste of time. So if they’re not just names on a page, how are these entrepreneur advisors involved with us at NextView and our portfolio companies? Investment – All of these individuals are busy people with limited bandwidth, but they?’re

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How to Stop Playing “Target Market Roulette”: A new addition to the Lean toolset

Steve Blank

Lean Methodology consists of three tools designed for entrepreneurs building new ventures: The Business Model Canvas – to write down all the hypotheses about a new business; Customer Development – a process for testing those hypotheses outside the building; Agile Engineering – to rapidly build minimal viable products to test product/market fit.

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6 Startup Challenges That Can Be Mitigated With Focus

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s tough for an elephant to be agile. Your personal bandwidth is quickly exceeded. A simple test is to see if you can quickly name your top three priorities, and if every team member is able to respond quickly with the same three. The probability of failure goes up exponentially as the number of product features increase.

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6 Reasons Why More Is Not Better In Your Next Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s tough for an elephant to be agile. Your personal bandwidth is quickly exceeded. A simple test is to see if you can quickly name your top three priorities, and if every team member is able to respond quickly with the same three. The probability of failure goes up exponentially as the number of product features increase.

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Job Titles That Can Sink Your Startup

Steve Blank

He had raised a seed round and then a Series A from a name brand Venture firm. I’ve been running our company, cycling through Customer Discovery and Validation and the board suggested that I was running out of bandwidth and needed some help in closing our initial orders. Yeah, and they were great.

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