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Waves of technology platforms

Startup Lessons Learned

Some combination of the dot-com crash and a just terrible business plan prevented us from having to take our scalability problems to the next level. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. We just had our app support a few tens of thousands of customers, and it did well.

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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

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. The problem is that customers dont read your business plan. Founders push for it. In some ways, founders are even worse.