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Paul Graham on fundraising

Startup Lessons Learned

but rest assured they would be. But the investor is already being compensated for that risk in the low price of the stock, so it is unfair to delay. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? more data about their trajectory. Even VCs do it.

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How to Solve Problems in Your Business: Kanban, Kaizen and Scrum

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The word kanban means “signboard” or “billboard” in Japanese, and it’s a concept most commonly applied to “lean” or “just in time” production. Kanban is a scheduling system for “just in time” production. Scrum: a flexible way to manage product development. Perfect symbiosis.

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Assessing fit with the Wisdom of Crowds

Startup Lessons Learned

Similar mechanisms are at work in the stock market, Google PageRank , and guessing an oxs weight at the state fair. When doing the post-interview team meeting, it was common for the first opinion expressed about a candidate to become the prevailing opinion of the rest of the team members. Expo SF (May. for Harvard Business Revie.

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Three decisions to make on virtual goods

Startup Lessons Learned

Your challenge will be incentivizing your developers to create, and managing the volume of their output. And what do you do with the rest? Yes, I have had to deal with developers on strike. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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The Sharp End of the Stick « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

My way of explaining our support and service role to the marketing department was that: Sales is the sharp end of the stick, and marketing at best, is the stick. But while the sales team works for commission, the rest of the employees have equity (stock) in the company. No one was confused after that. Who’s on the Sharp End?

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The Ultimate Inventor’s Guide to Inventing Things

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If you do have competition, pay special attention to your product name, price range, materials used, what the product claims to do, packaging, and who the manufacturer is. Drop into a store that you think would be a great candidate for stocking your product in the future. Why spend the extra money when you don’t have to?

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Smart Bear Live 8: Edwin from MeetingKing.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Those customers are fairly easy to sign up, but if I look at where most of the money comes from, and those are the larger licenses of five or ten users, that is according to your definition then the small businesses and small businesses include actually the Mexican Stock Exchange, Chamber of Commerce. In Spain I have large companies.