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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. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

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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. Start with a five-dollar-a-day SEM campaign. Dont scale. Great article.