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How Startups Can Figure Out Sales: Amos Schwartzfarb, TechStars

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Our interview today is with Amos Schwartzfarb , the author of Sell More Faster: The Ultimate Sales Playbook for Start-Ups , which comes out tomorrow, Wednesday. We caught up with Amos to learn about his new book, and to gain some tips for startup entrepreneurs on how to figure out when you're actually ready to scale your sales team.

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Steve Blank Discusses The Origin And Future Of The Lean Startup Movement

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Article first published as Steve Blank Discusses Origin And Future Of Lean Startup Movement on Technorati. I recently spoke with Steve Blank, author of the new book The Startup Owner’s Manual. He is credited with pioneering the Lean Startup Movement in 2005 via the publication of his bestselling, Four Steps To The Epiphany.

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How Investors Think About Valuation of Pre-Revenue Startups

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Because of this, I've always tried to stay up-to-speed on how early-stage investors look at valuation of companies. I should try to come back and write about this more, but the point of this post is that it's important not to only think about this aspect. He just post: Establishing the Pre-money Valuation of Pre-revenue Startups.

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Document Your MVP for a Developer

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He wanted to get input from me on what he's doing, and he wants to begin to ask developers what it would take to build his product. I asked some of the same questions I ask in my Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions and then I get to a very common conversation: Me : Do you have specs? You likely are writing your first one of these.

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Domain Experience Gives Entrepreneurs an Unfair Advantage

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I started with a Top 10 list for Nivi (at VentureHacks), but I couldn’t cram it into 10 so it became a Top 11 list. There’s one attribute (coming soon) that I need to have in order to write a check but I don’t believe is vital for success. So the whole customer development cycle is very streamlined.

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Why The ‘Fail Fast’ Mantra Needs to Fail

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Yesterday I wrote a post about how much capital your startup should raise. That is so self centered it winds me up. And how do you think the next person who’s thinking about writing you a check going to feel about that sort of cavalier attitude with their money? Who started this meme?

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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It was a pleasure to write them myself. At the time when you did a search on Lycos, Alta Vista or similar for a category such as Cars you ended up getting 9 spam results and 1 proper website to meet your needs. He came up to Bill after the event and said, “clever idea, we should do that with you.&# Overture (Goto.com).