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Applying Lean Startup Beyond Silicon Valley

Startup Lessons Learned

government fund and as Entrepreneur-In-Residence for the National Science Foundation. Think, for example, about the way we talk about sales and customer development and the idea of ‘getting out of the building.’ He leads Lean Startup workshops around the world, recently spending a lot of time in Singapore and Puerto Rico.

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5 Critical Tips to Reduce Your Business Taxes This Year [WEBINAR]

Up and Running

This is important because it means you should be tracking your sales and profitability all year long, and determining that your business has extra cash to spend as early in the year as possible, so you can plan for how to spend it in the most tax-efficient way possible. It’s not a sales site. Can I run that through the business?”

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. Government and the enterprise are now followers rather than leaders. Finally the board would fire the VP of sales.

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