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Paul Graham on fundraising

Startup Lessons Learned

but rest assured they would be. But the investor is already being compensated for that risk in the low price of the stock, so it is unfair to delay. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? When a company is only two months old, every day you wait gives you 1.7%

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Building Great Founding Teams

Steve Blank

What sets them apart from the rest of the team is that they can project a fearless reality distortion field that they use to recruit, fund raise, pivot and position the company. They deal with the daily crisis of product development and acquiring early customers. Customer Development Family/Career/Culture'

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The Sharp End of the Stick « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

My way of explaining our support and service role to the marketing department was that: Sales is the sharp end of the stick, and marketing at best, is the stick. But while the sales team works for commission, the rest of the employees have equity (stock) in the company. No one was confused after that. Who’s on the Sharp End?

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Smart Bear Live 8: Edwin from MeetingKing.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Those customers are fairly easy to sign up, but if I look at where most of the money comes from, and those are the larger licenses of five or ten users, that is according to your definition then the small businesses and small businesses include actually the Mexican Stock Exchange, Chamber of Commerce. In Spain I have large companies.

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Assessing fit with the Wisdom of Crowds

Startup Lessons Learned

Similar mechanisms are at work in the stock market, Google PageRank , and guessing an oxs weight at the state fair. When doing the post-interview team meeting, it was common for the first opinion expressed about a candidate to become the prevailing opinion of the rest of the team members.

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Three decisions to make on virtual goods

Startup Lessons Learned

Your challenge will be incentivizing your developers to create, and managing the volume of their output. How do you help customers find the best of the best? And what do you do with the rest? You may have to staff up a large customer service department to review and approve all of the items.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

All of them share a couple common traits: they launched before taking outside investment, and they were able to do it because they had a set of founders with the skills to build the initial version of the product themselves. Only eBay was founded by a single individual – the rest were team efforts. link] Chiwuzie Sunday Great Article!,