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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. In fact, this company hasn’t shipped any new products in months.

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

“If you can fix a problem for someone and do it better, quicker, and/or cheaper than your competitor, you’re off to a good start.” – Gabriel Kuperman, founder and CEO of CuePin. We created UpKeep to fill this void—a cloud-based solution that was affordable for any size business.” – Ryan Chan, founder of UpKeep.

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Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets

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Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year. Bokér/1 Next David Sarna with Hendon, Stamford Hill & Co. He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees.

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Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets

www.readwriteweb.com

Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year. Bokér/1 Next David Sarna with Hendon, Stamford Hill & Co. He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

So for this first post, here’s the best advice I can give you: join an awesome founding team and get your product out the door ASAP. One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. Then, forget everything else, VCs included, and just build.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

In the last five years, there’s been this sort of acknowledgment of the consumerization of the enterprise, which is consumer product development, design methods applied to business software, of which SaaS and cloud and all these things are examples. Previously, Andreessen developed Mosaic and co-founded Netscape.

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What is the perfect startup team?

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Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team? They are many more examples.