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Don’t Jump Too Soon: How To Properly Pace Business Growth

YoungUpstarts

by Brent Freeman , co-founder and president of Stealth Venture Labs. Stay agile so you can respond intelligently to your company’s needs. Despite what many entrepreneurs may think, know this: Not all growth is good growth. In fact, expanding too quickly can be just as dangerous as not growing at all.

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It’s Time to Play Moneyball: The Investment Readiness Level

Steve Blank

Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering. These three tools allow startups to focus on the parts of an early stage venture that matter the most: the product, product/market fit, customer acquisition, revenue and cost model, channels and partners.

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16 Common Mistakes Young Startups Make

mashable.com

simply arent crucial to success or failure, and for an early stage startup that means they were wastes of time — you could have done 10x more with that same amount of time and resources." — Jonathan Wegener , Founder, Timehop and ExitStrategy. Not Embracing Agility. "If Most features/options/buttons/settings/etc.

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