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32 Business and Life Lessons: What I Learned Running Companies on 4 Different Continents

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Instead, I decided to package what I know about internet marketing and build an online course for small businesses in Estonia (that’s where I’m from). When we launched Traindom, we knew nothing about lean startup methodology or customer development. Execution is everything, and knowing what to do matters.

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This Weekend

Startup Lessons Learned

Product management and customer development, KISSmetrics. One caveat: if you come by, you are automatically volunteering to be subjected to some intense customer development. Also: booze. The evening's slate: 20 Ways to Not Build Stuff Cindy Alvarez. Co-founder, Backblaze.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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The rest can be outsourced to wherever (Estonia – Skype; someone mentioned digg above; you can even send this junk to India and get it with questionable quality). Alex The critical stuff MUST be done in-the-house. But this critical part is typically 10% of the thing in terms of coding and resources. So, the guy is BS-ting you, people.