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28 Entrepreneurs Share Their Tips and Tricks of Staying Motivated

Hearpreneur

Such a team can also often do the work for you, which helps to ratchet-up your effectiveness. I have a designated place to work: my home office, a co-working space, or a coffee shop. For example, I used to handle finances and billing the first year because I didn’t want to spend any money in hiring a financial assistant.

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Fear is the mind-killer

Startup Lessons Learned

As the product matured, they were able to ratchet up the quality to prevent regression on features that had been truly embraced by their customers. Starting instead from a position where feedback cycle time is the priority and allowing quality to ratchet up as the product matures provides a more natural lead in to continuous deployment.

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Raise Capital With The Skin You’re In: Blunt Truth from Don Charlton, CEO, The Resumator

David Teten

I’m speaking on a panel this afternoon on fundraising for minority founders at the Rainbow PUSH Wall Street Project. Fundraising is always difficult for all founders; the median PE/VC fund sources and reviews 87 companies before investing in 1. This young, talented girl is given no chance of being the founder of the next Facebook.”. “I