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8 New Business Keys To Success For Real Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

He nails the current key startup parameters, including the following: Crafting a lean business plan as your road map. Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging. Establishing your brand with interactive social media.

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8 Tips For Getting Your Startup Right The First Time

Startup Professionals Musings

He nails the current key startup parameters, including the following: Crafting a lean business plan as your road map. Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging. Establishing your brand with interactive social media.

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8 Secrets To Pushing Your Startup Ahead Of The Crowd

Startup Professionals Musings

He nails the current key startup parameters, including the following: Crafting a lean business plan as your road map. Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging. Establishing your brand with interactive social media.

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Lessons Learned: Work in small batches

Startup Lessons Learned

I owe it originally to lean manufacturing books like Lean Thinking and Toyota Production System. The batch size is the unit at which work-products move between stages in a development process. The sooner you pass your work on to a later stage, the sooner you can find out how they will receive it.

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Lean Startup Workshop scholarship program

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, June 12, 2009 Lean Startup Workshop scholarship program I havent had much time to write lately, and so havent been able to share much about the Lean Startup Workshop series I have been producing with OReilly in their Master Class division. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Multiple passes at the target

This is going to be BIG.

We have a good sense of what later stage VCs are going to look for and can help think about how much you need to raise to get additional interest down the line. Sometimes, we even have good product feedback. If the feedback is great, I'm going to lean forward with some more interest.

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Durant Versus Sloan – Part 1

Steve Blank

The company was lucky to survive his later stage leadership, and would be gone today had Bill Ford not brought in the ex-Boeing fellow who turned it around and runs it today. Henry Ford would not listen to anyone else — a common problem among the successful — and about ruined his company by sticking around too long.