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Product-Led Growth (PLG) For Startups

Mucker Lab

Are there types of companies, market segments, industries, or business models where PLG does not make sense? If you're generating something that's brand new, like a brand new category, nobody understands about it. What should an early-stage startup founder focus on if they want to implement PLG?

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Lean Innovation Management – Making Corporate Innovation Work

Steve Blank

In the last five years “ Lean Startup ” methodologies have enabled entrepreneurs to efficiently build a startup by searching for product/market fit rather than blindly trying to execute. They suggest that a company allocate its innovations across three categories called “Horizons.”. Horizon 3 is focused on unknown business models.

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The Very Best Digital Metrics For 15 Different Companies!

Occam's Razor

That then takes us down the very best way to answer that question, to use the five-step process to build out the Digital Marketing and Measurement Model. Let’s look at XX completely different types of business, and pick just six metrics (two each for A, B and O) that would be the very best ones to measure their digital success.

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Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

Gust

The questions that arise most with respect to any category of IP at the earliest stages include: How will this affect our chances of getting funded on favorable terms ? What kind of advantage will this create vs. our competitors ? What kind of risk do we run of being put out of business by others’ IP rights ? trade secret).

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Invest in Israel Newsletter December 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

A light “railway” using high density busses in dedicated traffic lanes is also due to start operating in 2011, and a cable-car connecting the bay area with the academic institutions in the upper part of the city is planned for 2013. TWO ISRAELI COMPANIES WIN GE CLEANTECH CHALLENGE. billion in 2010.

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Building a Great Startup Board: Pt 1

Reid Hoffman

When entrepreneurs gather to swap war stories, whether they’re meeting in person or virtually, one of the biggest categories of horrific tales are bad board stories. The first and most fundamental application of this oath is understanding that, for early stage startups, replacing the CEO is almost never an option.

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a16z Podcast: Growth in Turbulent Times

Ben's Blog

Third, we’ll look ahead to discuss scenario planning and how leaders can forge a path forward. We begin by describing a typical a growth model and discuss how that fundamentally drives a company’s business strategy. So what are they doing here, in the context of their growth model?

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