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10 Common Startup Mistakes That Are Rarely Admitted

Startup Professionals Musings

Even non-profits need a profitable business model to offset staff and operating costs. Assume passion level defines business opportunity. It’s never too early to start marketing, since it usually takes as long to build marketing momentum as it does to build a product. No startup can afford to do these serially.

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Seed Stage Funding 101: What it Is & How it Works

The Startup Magazine

The fundamental objective and aim of seed investment is to assist a company in launching its operations successfully. It is necessary to cover the early stages of product development, thorough market research, and other processes during the initial step.

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Why Companies and Government Do “Innovation Theater” Instead of Actual Innovation

Steve Blank

HR processes, legal processes, financial processes, acquisition and contracting processes, security processes, product development and management processes, and types of organizational forms etc. All of these are great strategies and tools that business schools build, and consulting firms help implement.

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10 Popular Business Strategies That Most Often Fail

Startup Professionals Musings

Even non-profits need a profitable business model to offset staff and operating costs. Assume passion level defines business opportunity. It’s never too early to start marketing, since it usually takes as long to build marketing momentum as it does to build a product. No startup can afford to do these serially.

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Profound Beliefs

Steve Blank

In the early stages of a startup your hypotheses about all the parts of your business model are your profound beliefs. Here’s how I learned why they were critical to successful customer development. Start with those around product/market fit – who are your customers and what features do they want?

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

First Movers” didn’t understand customer problems or the product features that solved those problems (what we now call product-market fit). To be fair, in the 20 th century, there really wasn’t a model for how to build startups other than write plan, raise money, and execute – the bubble was this method, on steroids.

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Lead and Disrupt

Steve Blank

Try innovating inside a large company where 99% of the company is executing the current business model, while you’re trying to figure out and build what comes next. Do they have better sales, marketing, or product development groups? You think startups are hard? The short answer is no.

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