Burn Rate Hiring Lean Partner 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
He just hired Meg Whitman. Since NewTV won’t be making the content, they will be licensing from and partnering with traditional entertainment producers. NewTV will depend on partners like telcos to distribute the content. It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup. The Rise of the Lean Startup. And it may work.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 3, 2014
As the miles sped by I explained to Dave that he had understood only two of the three parts of what makes a Lean Startup successful. The emphasis on the rapid development and iteration of MVP’s is to speed up how fast you can learn ; from customers, partners, network scale, adoption, etc. All great in theory but simply wrong.
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Mucker Lab
MAY 28, 2020
This post originally appeared in TechCrunch back in 2015, written by our co-founder and managing partner Erik Rannala. Hire the wrong people. Bad hiring decisions are often a symptom of premature scaling. Why hire a sales team when you have nothing to sell yet? Be trigger shy about hiring.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 3, 2009
The last couple of years has also seen the huge initial success of Ycombinator, the Lean Startup and many other product driven approaches to going to market. I’m not even talking about your 12-page Powerpoint presentation that you need to raise venture capital or to talk with potential biz dev partners. How much will you pay?
Mucker Lab
MARCH 8, 2016
Just as entrepreneurs should aspire to raise capital from value-added, “smart money” investors, we, too, have focused on partnering with committed, long-term, institutional limited partners (LPs). We are consumed with generating great returns for our limited partners. Mucker III is for those quiet but indomitable entrepreneurs.
Up and Running
OCTOBER 1, 2014
Nelson has some tips: Know your burn rate. Partner well. Nelson acknowledges that choosing a business partner is like choosing a spouse, and that she’s been fortunate to twice connect with people who synergistically allowed Theme Dragon to rise to the next level. How do you balance it all? Look inward.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 15, 2020
It's never selfish to hire. I said, "Hire people. Hire them to do whatever you can find them to do." You really have to lean in and say, "Okay. So anything you can do to keep them hired, you just improved their sanity. It's never selfish to hire. My partner, Martin, and I did just that.
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