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Why Founders Should Know How to Code

Steve Blank

As the miles sped by I explained to Dave that he had understood only two of the three parts of what makes a Lean Startup successful. The emphasis on the rapid development and iteration of MVP’s is to speed up how fast you can learn ; from customers, partners, network scale, adoption, etc.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part V: Happy 100th Birthday.

Steve Blank

The arc converter basically used the negative resistance of the an electric arc to cancel the positive resistance of an LC network thereby causing it to oscillate in a pure narrow-band CW frequency (aka Q-tuning). But in fact, most startups need to keep their burn rate low more [.] to do that.

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Create Structure out of the Gate and You’ll Thank Yourself Later

Feld Thoughts

They need to raise money before building anything substantial after determining that they needed a little dough to follow the Lean Startup methodology. Company Hygiene Matters – One of the responsibility of a Board of Directors is to regularly discuss financials, burn rate, and cash management.

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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

And even worse, wed cranked up the burn rate in order to be ready to handle all those millions of mainstream customers we anticipated. Launching is about creating circles within circles (groups of people that connect) and social networking, word of mouth, and real-world advertising are all contributing factors. Expo SF (May.

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“Venture Assistance”: A Philosophical View Of What Boards Should And Should Not Do

techcrunch.com

He knows how to advise entrepreneurs on hiring/firing, running teams, managing funding, when/how to control burn rate, and making other tough management decisions in the real environment of startups. What else can a great board member like Keith bring to the party?

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The Cost Equation for a Startup is Better Than Ever

Startup Professionals Musings

That’s a burn rate of at least $10K per month that can be eliminated if you are handy with computers and Quickbooks. Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies. Best of all, it’s even considered “ultra-cool” these days to be a lean startup. Technology costs.

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You Don’t Need to be Rich to be an Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

That’s a burn rate of at least $10K per month that can be eliminated if you are handy with computers and Quickbooks. Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies. Best of all, it’s even considered “ultra-cool” these days to be a lean startup. Technology costs.