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Before You Buy a Hotel Business, Answer These 4 Questions

Up and Running

While areas such as Las Vegas, San Francisco, and New York bring in the most tourists a year, know that high-mileage areas are already saturated with hotels and come with a more expensive up-front cost. You can download a free Lean Plan template to help you get started. Write a business plan.

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Product design debt versus Technical debt

andrewchenblog.com

Why homepages becomes a Las Vegas visual experience Incrementally-developed UIs that are never refactored often turn into a Las Vegas visual experience over time. Ya know, something that looks like this: Why does Vegas look this way? There went my Las Vegas light show. Best regards!

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

And the truth is that's yesterday and you don't really have the ability to change what you did yesterday, but what you do have the ability today, is to lean into this. If you lean in and understand this is a brilliant time to play offense. Are they going to play in Las Vegas and quarantine the players and bring everybody back?

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Out of the Crisis #18: Sal Khan on institution building, solving the digital divide, and education as the lever for all decisions

Startup Lessons Learned

Our server costs, we're on track to be 200%, 300%. So, in some ways, for sure our costs have gone up, and we're trying to fast forward all these programs to support people even more. Sal Khan : how do we keep up with the costs of things? We knew that it would cost more if we wanted to accelerate.

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Join a conference simulcast near you

Startup Lessons Learned

One of the most important things we do with The Lean Startup Conference is make a livestream of the plenary talks available for free to groups around the world, supporting entrepreneurship communities everywhere. Most simulcasts are free, although some charge a small fee to cover their costs. Boston, Pearson Education, 501 Boylston St.

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Why Taking Some Risks in the Sales Process Can Improve Results

Both Sides of the Table

This was a dilemma because while it seemed like easy money and a reasonable request I knew it was going to drive up our support and maintenance costs and become hard to manage. One thing I observed was that many customers wanted an “on premise” version of our software and were willing to pay extra money for it. So we took a stand.

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Boom and Bust and What Comes Next

Scalable Startup

“Boom and bust is our lot and we must follow the ancient advice.that Joseph gave to the Pharaoh: Put away your surplus during the years of great plenty so you will be ready for the lean years which are sure to follow.”. Will they relocate staff to Stockton, or maybe Las Vegas—or simply send the work overseas?