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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

Visible networking is turning into a really great opportunity to get to know people better, get to meet new people, and have some interesting conversations. I know you are still in stealth, but what can you tell us. And what do you think about the controversy about stealth vs. not for startups? What are you working on now?

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Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up

Startup Lessons Learned

The same has been true of an unfortunate number of startups, they manage to generate a lot of hype, raise a lot of money, and sometimes make some of their investors, employees, or founders rich. bigs : @ericries says Stealth dev is a (undesirable, failure-presaging) customer-free zone. Danger, Will Robinson. Iterating at whiteboard !=

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

Most of the time, the experiments you run will have a zero percent conversion rate - meaning no customers were harmed during the making of this experiment. Make sure your domain registrar offers free "website forwarding" if you dont use a hosting service that lets you use a custom domain name in step 2. Measure conversion rates.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: PurePlus

Austin Startup

Producing uneaten food squanders a whole host of resources: seeds, water, energy, land, fertilizer, hours of labor, financial capital, and generates greenhouse gases at every stage. PurePlus is disrupting candy with stealth nutrition. I am most impressed by Jaden Smith, Founder of JUST Water and 501CThree.

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7 things I learned from failing that you can avoid

The Next Web

You are NOT more valuable than your cofounders. Despite all of that, I couldn’t have built the product without my cofounders. Two very well-funded competitors dropped out of stealth when we pushed our alpha and I started putting far too much emphasis on competitor-killing features and not enough time getting to market.

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How to Compete Against Open Source Competition

Software By Rob

Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation. Co-workers arent’ comfortable with commandeline/Tortoise. If youre trying to grow your startup youve come to the right place.

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Announcing SnapTrip

The Equity Kicker

He has startup experience having co-founded his previous company PureHolidayHomes. This contrasts sharply with the peak bookings end of the market where AirBnB, HouseTrip, HomeAway and a host of smaller players are competing fiercely. (It’s Initial tests on CPAs and conversion rates have also been very promising.

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