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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

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The larger point here is that in starting a startup, youre not really working on an idea so much youre working on assembling a team of people to implement the idea, learning how to build a business, how to manage customers, marketing and sales, technical support - all that stuff.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

For this product, I later realized that I was the software architect, the frontend engineer, the backend engineer, the database administrator, the systems administrator, the QA engineer, and lastly I was the only technical support guy. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?