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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

This is why companies often get out-competed by former employees (Palm vs Handspring to name just one), even though the upstart lacks all of the familiar resources, tools, processes, and support they used to have. Start using some of those customers as guinea pigs for a self-serve version of the product.

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Reinventing the Office: How to Lose Fat and Increase Productivity at Work

David Teten

The feature, titled “ Fitness Financed: Motion, Margin, Risk & Reward ,” offers an inside look into our office.). Our portfolio company BetterWorks cites a report by The World Economic Forum: “Employees are eight times more likely to be engaged when wellness is a priority in the workplace.”

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14 Entrepreneurs Describe The BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals) For Their Business?

Hearpreneur

BHAG is one day be able to truly focus on what is ahead and its achievability and aim to change my goals always to stay relevant to my customers, employees, market, partners, investors and the society. I have some personal travel goals as well – I want to build a raft and sail from Indonesia to Papua New Guinea.