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The Startup Copycat Fallacy

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Another full-stack short-term rentals startup ? It seems as though in many categories, especially in consumer internet space, a handful of startups pursuing quite similar or even apparently identical ideas launch within months of each other. Another d2c gourmet pet food company ?

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice. As in stop being in stealth mode. I started my first internet company while getting my MBA. I remember calling up my best friend to tell her I was starting a company but refused to tell her how the product would work. « Back to posts. Viewed times.

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7 Keys To Being An Exceptional Business Leader Today

Startup Professionals Musings

Today, with the Internet and social media, if you aren’t visible in a positive way to everyone, including customers, your leadership efforts will be lost. In this age of total access via the Internet, you can’t hide relationships, or the lack of them. Build relationships with known business leaders.

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Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 3, 2009 Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up Last week I had a real blast meeting with the companies at the fbFund incubator at Palo Alto. The Lean Startup fbFund Edition View more documents from Eric Ries. We tend to equate startup success with making money, but that is a poor choice.

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Lessons Learned: Achieving a failure

Startup Lessons Learned

Bring in an expert CEO with outstanding business credentials and startup experience to focus on relentless execution. Build a truly mainstream product. Build the product in stealth mode to build buzz for the eventual launch. It was considered naive that the "next AOL" would ship a product that wasnt ready for prime time.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Disruptors

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As a CEO of a technological startup, I often need to find trustworthy information as quickly as possible. I appreciate the thought and care that went into The Farmstand, a product developed by Zooey Deschanel and Jacob Pechenik that enables buyers to garden fresh vegetables without pesticides and less water than conventional gardening.

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

It was one of those brilliant startup brainstorms that comes to the team in a flash, with a giant thunderclap. We spent weeks working on this new product, racing the clock so it would be done in time for the real presidential debates. Eric, Excellent article about an essential technique for startups. Expo SF (May.

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