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Is the Lean Startup concept of MVP dead?

VC Cafe

Every startup has limited time to find product-market fit before running out of cash and speed is an important element in survival. If you can afford to make an MVP look and feel great, even at the expense of time to market or cost, why compromise? Capital resources alone don’t do the trick. Maximum Viable Product.

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Twitter Link Roundup #210 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! What’s up with the Series A?

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Fundraising Debt And How To Avoid It

YoungUpstarts

Ten years ago, Ward Cunningham published a Youtube video that introduced the concept of “technical debt” to the world. For start-ups in hot markets, the problem also manifests itself in fundraising. Founders need seed capital to get their operations up and running, and to begin generating revenue.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. Has it begun to mature or is it just better marketed than in was say 5 years ago? Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

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Twitter Link Roundup #28 – Design, Copywriting, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Measuring Up: Are You a Good Designer or a Great One?

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

I’ve seen the Valley grow from Sunnyvale to Santa Clara to today where it stretches from San Jose to South of Market in San Francisco. and there were no books, blogs or YouTube videos about entrepreneurship. And while new markets were created (i.e. the desktop PC market), they were relatively infrequent.

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When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

Steve Blank

Silicon Valley has amused us, connected (and separated us) as never before, made businesses more efficient and led to the wholesale transformation of entire industries (bookstores, video rentals, newspapers, etc.). The New Structure of the Venture Capital industry. Entrepreneurship as It’s Own Management Science.