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Head, Heart, and Hands: 3 Essentials for Startup Success

Up and Running

First-time entrepreneurs and small business founders often feel anxious when they think about all the factors that play into getting their idea off the ground. Howard Schultz brought the espresso bar concept from Italy to the United States and grew Starbucks into a global phenomenon. But where to begin?

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Product Launches: 5 Unexpected Lessons from the Real World

ConversionXL

View this post on Instagram Watch our detachable soles being made near Milan #mahabis #soles #shoes #factory #milan #italy #videooftheday #instadaily #ig #sneakers #kicks #design #fashion #yellow A post shared by mahabis (@mahabis) on Apr 10, 2014 at 5:53am PDT. Hugo Woodhead is the founder of Pilcro , which sells brand management software.

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Speed in Sales at Startups

Austin Startup

The Ferrari Museum in Modena, Italy The defining characteristic of the Silicon Valley startup is speed. It is so important that not a week goes by without a successful investor/founder extolling the benefits of moving quickly. They deploy this principle intending to create a lean, high-performing startup. 2021 instead of 2022.

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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

In January of this year, he arrived in the US with his co-founders as part of the winter 2020 YCombinator batch. When the shelter in place orders began, Alpha found himself living in a tiny Airbnb with his other co-founders, Having just arrived from the UK to do the start up program, YCombinator. Alpha Lee : Right.

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How To Launch a Startup and Avoid Ending-up in Jail

Scott Edward Walker

Introduction I love working with startups – and trying to protect founders and watch their backs. Indeed, in a world of easy access to online documents, it is often this legal compliance which is overlooked by founders, as they attempt to stay “lean” and “scrappy” (and sometimes even handle the legal work themselves or through a web service).

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How to Start a Travel Agency

Up and Running

I’ve interviewed several founders of successful travel agencies who can give you the advice you need to get started, and I’ve also included plenty of links and resources to help you work through the process of starting your own travel business. A lean business plan would be a perfect fit for your business. Travel Agency Business Plan.

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This Weekend

Startup Lessons Learned

The next couple of days are going to be amazing, as the Lean Startup community converges on San Francisco. As a reminder, the first 200 people to show up will get one of the very first copies of the Lean Startup Book , a pre-publication printed galley. Co-founder, Backblaze. Founder, House of Mikko. Founder, BlueSpark.