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Lean and Mean: How to Boost Startup Growth on a Shoestring Budget

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Embrace Lean Startup Methodology Traditionally, starting a business meant undertaking thorough planning, seeking significant funding, and developing a product in isolation from its future users. This definition acts as the cornerstone of future decisions. Plans also help with prioritization.

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Improving Sales: The Excuse Departement is Closed

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Most technology startups seem to be funded by product people or business people. Back then it was a larger than life ex country manager from PTC named Kai Krickel. They like a solid product, well defined pricing, good references to sell against, a clear quota and well defined competitors. Sales people often blame the product.

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19 Strategies for Managing Risk in a Startup

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19 Strategies for Managing Risk in a Startup In this article, we explore nineteen different strategies for managing risk in startups, shared by founders, CEOs, and other industry professionals. This way, we made more informed decisions and reduced the risk of failure.

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Stop Trying to Catch Lightning in a Bottle

Both Sides of the Table

I’m sure you’ve all heard saying derived from Voltaire, “don’t let perfect be the enemy of the good” which in a way is encapsulated in the lean startup movement and the ideology of shipping a “minimum viable product” (MVP) and then learning from your customer base.

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How to Validate Your Idea Without Writing a Single Line of Code

Entrepreneur's Handbook

The only thing that matters is getting to product-market fit Credits: Read on Since 2021, I have made it my goal to guide startups to a product market fit in a structured process. It’s time to explain the process and share examples to help more startups successfully achieve product-market fit. And still, 90% of startups fail.

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What does "thinking big" really mean?

The Zapier Blog

It was a big decision (and risk!), In all the podcasts I listened to and blogs I read, there was a consistent refrain: "You need to set aside time to think big." Get the Zapier blog in your inbox Subscribe So, I crowdsourced the answers. Last July, I launched a business. so I wanted to be as prepared as I possibly could.

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Challenges With The Lean Startup Methodology

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Challenge #2: The Lean Startup’s focus on MVPs leads to failing too fast. Challenge #3: The Lean Startup leads to incremental products. Challenge #4: The Lean Startup overemphasizes a focus on product over deliberate growth. And in turn, we were never able to find a viable business model for our product.

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