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A new field guide for entrepreneurs of all stripes

Startup Lessons Learned

What are the value propositions, benefits and the messaging (bait), the pricing structure and channels (tackle), and length of sales cycle (how likely a fish will snap your line)? Or will you need to staff and finance a whaling ship to be out at sea for months at a time to catch two or three whales (enterprise sales model)?

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

but few step back and really examine the underlying assumptions of startup finance. Then we could focus on standardizing a product that could have an automated sales cycle online. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. This is possibly the most insightful startup article Ive read in a while.

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