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6 Cost-Cutting Recommendations For New Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. Work out of your home, and keep your own books. A programmer can build a new smartphone app for a few thousand dollars.

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Entrepreneurs Today Don’t Need A Big Budget To Start

Startup Professionals Musings

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. Work out of your home, and keep your own books. A programmer can build a new smartphone app for a few thousand dollars.

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Document Your MVP for a Developer

SoCal CTO

In fact, let me provide an important warning: If you create these documents, don't have input from a technical resource, take it to a development shop and they provide you a price. Customer Development Notes I'm assuming founders are having customer development conversations.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

Pricing models, the freemium myth and why you may not be charging enough for your product - Seth Levine's VC Adventure , August 12, 2010 I’ve been pulled into a number of product and pricing meetings recently (for reasons unknown I’ve become the Foundry pricing and productization guy). clearly didn’t cause this.” How it happens.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

The Ultimate Combination of Startup Business Development Methods - ArcticStartup , November 16, 2010 I've been a huge fan of Steven Blank's Customer Development methodology for a long time. I've also read his book The Four Steps to the Epiphany, where he outlines this in great detail. As if managing were a waste of time.

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Why The ‘Fail Fast’ Mantra Needs to Fail

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Either this thing has legs and will grow fast and we’ll raise at a very large price or we’re going to ‘fail fast’ &# Me, “What? Don’t get me wrong – failure is OK in my book. What about the money you raised? It’s quick and easy. Why waste your time on this one? This is wrong.