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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

Again, its critical to focus your marketing launch on those publications, venues, and channels that your potential partners are paying attention to. Figuring this out takes time, and few entrepreneurs have the patience to wait it out, because the business plan does such a good job of explaining what customers are going to think.

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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

She has a separate team, with its own culture and office, and a mandate straight from top management to innovate without regard to the company’s historic products, channels, or supply chain. Certainly venture-backed startups don’t have this luxury – every business plan has a model in it. So far, so good.

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Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Startup Lessons Learned

A minimum viable product in this category must answer the question: does my media content or channel command the attention of a valuable audience? Startup founders need to use their own judgment to ask: which is the riskiest assumption underlying my business plan? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: What is a market? (a guide for hackers)

Startup Lessons Learned

In fact, you cant go through traditional channels at all. One can see how it ripples through the entire business plan. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.