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5 Lessons Learned Launching a Startup With No Plan, No Cash, and No MBA

Up and Running

In the summer of 2009, my wife and I caught the entrepreneurial bug and started a company without any prior business experience. We didn’t know anything about small business accounting or finance. We didn’t even know how to write a business plan. From backpackers to business owners. We’d never hired anyone.

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How Traveling Helped Me Prepare for Startup Life

Up and Running

After that, we spent the next three months traveling all over Chile and Argentina without incident. At one point we got off a bus in Bariloche, Argentina, and started seeking out a hostel that a few other travelers had mentioned. All the places that had looked dangerous to us two weeks earlier seemed safe and comfortable now.

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3 Things to Consider When Staffing a Software Development Project

mashable.com

Determining which of these methods of staffing software development projects is right for your company can be a challenging endeavor, and three opposing characteristics of business need to be considered: cost, risk and convenience. Properly handling risk management, decision making and cost control demands flexibility and advanced planning.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

But I stopped myself, realizing that I didn’t want to bash this small business online and forever tarnish their reputation. I originally came from Argentina, and lived in Brazil and Venezuela before moving to the US. — in a class so high in demand that I had to wait several quarters to take it?

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

I'd also spent a year living in Buenos Aires, Argentina. And so I'd gotten a sense of what that could do to a population and it certainly wasn't unique to Argentina. But basically from that moment, we struggled to keep up with the demand as opposed to trying to create more demand. In a way, it brought the world together.

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