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Lean Startups aren't Cheap Startups

Steve Blank

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. Over its lifetime a Lean Startup may spend less money than a traditional startup.

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Twitter Link Roundup #178 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! What Steve Jobs Can Teach Us About Management and Leadership – [link]. How a 1-Page Business Model Will – and Won’t–Help Your Lean Startup | by Kevin Dewalt – [link].

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People-First Capitalism

Reid Hoffman

What’s some of the ways that that kind of informs your leadership? We can either try to step forward and be progressive and really try to lean forward, or we can get dragged in the future. And I made a decision not to do an equity round, because I thought it would be a down round. So you met me in 2010.

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People-First Capitalism

Reid Hoffman

What’s some of the ways that that kind of informs your leadership? We can either try to step forward and be progressive and really try to lean forward, or we can get dragged in the future. And I made a decision not to do an equity round, because I thought it would be a down round. So you met me in 2010.

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An Inside Scoop on the Funding Environment and What it Might Mean for You

Both Sides of the Table

So we brought in experience hand Mark Woodward who had taken 2 companies public and had a storied sales leadership turned CEO career where he learned in academy-rich Oracle. Luckily we were never a unicorn so we didn’t have to have a destructive massive down-round that makes it harder (but not impossible) to get done.