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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

In the last five years, there’s been this sort of acknowledgment of the consumerization of the enterprise, which is consumer product development, design methods applied to business software, of which SaaS and cloud and all these things are examples. Marc Andreessen: We have a bunch of stealth investments. Exactly right!

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16 Common Mistakes Young Startups Make

mashable.com

Dont underestimate the importance of Minimum Viable Design. Your first product will likely be just a little bit ugly, and thats okay — its part of getting to market quickly and testing your idea in front of live customers. High virality is almost always the product of early and deliberate product design decisions.

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You Are What You Measure, So Choose Your KPIs (Incentives) Wisely!

Occam's Razor

It forces the designers, editors, merchandisers, IT team, and everyone in between to trade tawdry sensational stories delivered via slow-loading, pain-inducing pages, for a focus on customer (not advertiser) delight. . " An optimal inbound marketing portfolio will have balanced Owned, Paid and Earned channels.]. Don't shout.

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