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| Oct 15, 2021 | Putting your minimum viable product (MVP) on the path to success with AWS (VB Live) | Presented by AWS
For startups, building a minimum viable product can be overwhelming, but the AWS cloud platform helps lower costs, improve agility, and speed up innovation. In this VB Live event, learn how to successfully develop an MVP wi... |
| Apr 6, 2016 | Startup Lessons From a First-Time Entrepreneur Who Raised $25 Million | Entrepreneurs have a tendency to paint past failures as necessary steps toward their inevitable success. In many a Silicon Valley narrative, each misguided venture, bad decision or management mistake is rebranded a “lesson” on the path to t... |
| Dec 15, 2015 | How To Run Your Company Based On Metrics | David Teten Contributor
David Teten is Founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten.
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In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 followers
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| Oct 27, 2015 | From student to startup – how a PhD can boost budding businesses | What should an undergraduate student who’s inspired to change the world do? Should they continue their education in a PhD or found a startup? I have recently done both – at the same time – and my experience suggests the combination is bette... |
| Jun 26, 2015 | Joe Scarboro: Four Weeks at Tech City UK | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website.
It’s the end of my fourth week at Tech City UK and it’s been a hectic start! I’ve done a lot of research on where we can be adding more value and I’ve been to a lot of events ... |
| May 6, 2015 | ‘Build, Measure, Learn’ doesn’t mean throwing things against the wall to see if they stick | I am always surprised when critics complain that the Lean Startup’s Build, Measure, Learn approach is nothing more than “throwing incomplete products out of the building to see if they work.”
Unfortunately the Build, Measure, Learn diagram ... |
| May 6, 2015 | ‘Build, Measure, Learn’ doesn’t mean throwing things against the wall to see if they stick | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
I am always surprised when critics complain that ... |
| Oct 9, 2014 | The Key To Raising Your Seed Extension Round | Jonathan Friedman Contributor
Jonathan Friedman is a partner at LionBird Israel and blogs about the Venture Capital Point of View at VCPOV.com.
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The Erosion Of “Same Round, Same Price”
What To Do If Your Lead I... |
| Feb 1, 2014 | Understanding Lean Startup Model In The Context Of Bangladesh: Q & A with Bijon Islam, Director, LightCastle Partners | Since 2008 the idea of lean startup model has been changing the landscape of starting and building a company all over the world. Originally developed in Silicon Valley by Eric Ries, today the idea has expanded out of it's birth place and ta... |
| Jan 21, 2014 | The Village Walk: Trust, Relevance, and Reputation in Tech | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Dawn broke quietly that morning near Eregi, in Western Kenya, apricot light chasing the indigo of night, birdcalls and soft footsteps sounding outside my farm room’s door. I s... |
| Jul 9, 2013 | BrandBucket, the Business Name Marketplace for Lean Startups | Sponsored Post
Lean startups, the early stage companies that use the methodology for developing businesses and products proposed by Eric Ries, can access to a specific resource: BrandBucket, a business name marketplace that includes the .co... |
| Apr 23, 2013 | How To Design Great EdTech Tools | The 3-day LeanUX NYC event held April 11-13 at NYU was a mix of hands-on workshops and short presentations, all led by folks from different industries who have successfully applied lean and agile principles to designing better UX experience... |
| Apr 20, 2013 | Want to be a world-class growth hacker? Then get out of the building! | I’ve spent the last two years learning everything I can about “growth hacking.” I co-run the Growth Hackers Conference with Erin Turner, led efforts to build Udemy’s user base, and consulted/advised companies like Lyft, Wedding Party, Tende... |
| Apr 20, 2013 | Want to be a world-class growth hacker? Then get out of the building! | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
I’ve spent the last two years learning everything... |
| Jan 12, 2013 | What Games Are: The Fun Boson Does Not Exist | Editor’s note: Tadhg Kelly is a game designer with 20 years experience. He is the creator of leading game design blog What Games Are, and consults for many companies on game design and development. You can follow him on Twitter here.
Back w... |
| Nov 27, 2012 | Startup Winter Is Coming: Beware Funding Cliffs and Falling Valuations in the Consumer Web | “It’s harder to act in a disciplined way in summer. All around you, you see excess and nonsense, companies being bought or funded for zillions of dollars without traction.” Eric Ries, the pioneer behind the Lean Startup movement, wrote thos... |
| Oct 16, 2012 | Lean Startup guru Eric Ries joins HubSpot's advisory board | Serial entrepreneur and startup advisor Eric Ries has joined marketing automation leader HubSpot’s advisory board.
Ries, who cofounded IMVU and served as a venture advisor at Kleiner Perkins, pioneered the “lean startup” philosophy, which i... |
| Oct 16, 2012 | Lean Startup guru Eric Ries joins HubSpot's advisory board | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Serial entrepreneur and startup advisor Eric Ries... |
| Oct 4, 2012 | What it Takes to be a Teacherpreneur | Entrepreneurial guru Eric Reis put it something like this: Centuries from now people will laugh about entrepreneurship today, the way we laugh at other industries and processes that were getting their start a century ago. What we know of en... |
| Oct 2, 2012 | Lean Startup Machine Launches Validation Board, A Free Tool to Vet Your Startup Idea | Sometime around hearing the umpteenth pitch for a location-aware, mobile, social events recommendation tool, one starts to wonder if the founders ever really questioned their basic assumption: that anyone would download yet another one of t... |
| Aug 4, 2012 | Analytics Company Crazy Egg Acquires The Hello Bar | Crazy Egg, a company that helps website owners to visualize visitor activity, has acquired the web toolbar product Hello Bar.
The Hello Bar is a customizable, relatively unobtrusive bar that sits at the top of a website and directs visitors... |
| Jul 13, 2012 | How To Create A Minimum Viable Product | Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Emre Sokullu, founder and chief architect of GROU.PS
There’s been a lot of talk on the concept of minimum viable product lately, but not much has been written on how to actually implement one. Having g... |
| Apr 8, 2012 | Hooking Users In 3 Steps | Editor’s Note: Nir Eyal is the founder of two acquired tech startups and an advisor to several Bay Area companies and incubators. Nir blogs at NirAndFar.com.
The truly great consumer technology companies of the past 25 years have all had on... |
| Mar 12, 2012 | Search versus execute | A startup's goal is to find a repeatable/scalable model, and then execute One of the confusing things to entrepreneurs, investors and educators is the relationship between customer development and business model design and business planning... |
| Feb 9, 2012 | Columbia’s DevFest 2012 Showcases Student Hacks, New York Talent | The culture of hacking continues to bloom in New York, evidenced last weekend by Columbia’s DevFest 2012. DevFest is entirely student run, and had workshops and support from local VC firms and startups. The event culminated with presentatio... |
| Feb 7, 2012 | What is a startup?: our definition | Turns out, despite the focus on them in technology news, there are lots of questions about what exactly a ‘startup‘ is.
Any new business might use the word as an adjective, but we at Technically Philly think we need a philosophy for what ex... |
| Jan 28, 2012 | To Pivot or Not to Pivot | Editor’s note: Contributor Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of WatchMojo. Follow him @ashkan.
“To pivot, or not to pivot, that is the question:
Whether ’tis Nobler in the mind to suffer
The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortun... |
| Dec 16, 2011 | 'Stay Lean: Your Startup Toolkit' | 'Stay Lean: Your Startup Toolkit'
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In the context of startups, everyone tends to think of “Lean” as being short on money and having to make do on free or cheap tools. That can well be true, but it’s really more about cutting out t... |
| Nov 22, 2011 | A Look at the Past & Peek Into the Future of Harvard Business School's MVP Funded Startups | Earlier this month, the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School announced the seven winners for the first $50,000 round of Minimum Viable Product (MVP) Funding. Based on Eric Ries’s Lean Startup methodology -- foc... |
| Nov 19, 2011 | Racism And Meritocracy | Editor’s note: Guest contributor Eric Ries is the author of The Lean Startup. Follow him @ericries.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you can’t have missed the recent dust-up over race and Silicon Valley. Like almost every discussion ... |
| Nov 9, 2011 | Stockbox Grocers: the Food Store That’s Kind of a Tech Startup (Inside a Shipping Container) | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
You might not think of a grocery store inside a recycled shipping container as a technology-centric startup. But without some cheap, powerful devices and software, Web-enabled... |
| Nov 8, 2011 | Launchpad LA Receives VC Funding: $50,000 Per Startup | Launchpad LA today announces it will accept applications for its third class of Los Angeles-based tech startups. There are significant VC commitments (listed below) – every entering company will get $50,000 in funding, mentorship from top V... |
| Nov 1, 2011 | Harvard Business School Announces First 7 Start-Up Winners of MVP Funding | The Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School has helped fund numerous start-up ideas over the last year through their Minimum Viable Product Fund, and today is no different. The Center has announced seven winners f... |
| Sep 27, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Eric Ries: How Lean Was The Google+ Launch? | In the final episode of Chris Dixon’s interview with The Lean Startup author Eric Ries, Dixon asks him whether Google was “lean” when it rolled out Google+? Dixon says in some ways it appeared so, as Google was slowly “rolling out a bunch o... |
| Sep 11, 2011 | Are You Building The Right Product? | Editor’s note: Guest contributor Eric Ries is a consultant and the author of The Lean Startup, which he will be launching at Disrupt SF on Tuesday. Follow him @ericries.
I was recently asked to spend some time with an early stage startup th... |
| Aug 14, 2011 | Lean Startup Thinker Eric Ries: “Don’t Be In A Rush To Get Big, Be In A Rush To Have A Great Product” | Every tech founder thinks he or she runs a lean startup. But what exactly does that mean? In the video interview above Eric Ries, who came up with the term The Lean Startup and is the author of an upcoming book of the same name, explains hi... |
| Jul 30, 2011 | Don’t Be Fooled By Vanity Metrics | Startups love to point to big growth numbers, and the press loves to publish them. We are as guilty as anyone else in this regard: one million downloads, 10 million registered users, 200 million tweets per day. These growth metrics can ofte... |
| Jul 11, 2011 | Color, Now Down Two of Three Leaders, Looks Like A Lesson in Lean Startup Philosophy | Just three and a half months after the company launched to the public, proximity-based photo sharing mega-startup Color has lost a second of its three high-profile initial team members, Michael Arrington reported this morning. Arrington sai... |
| Jun 28, 2011 | Open innovation in DC | Using public policy to promote economic growth through entrepreneurship
Something interesting is happening in Washington, DC right now. It's not the usual partisan fights about the budget or the deficit. In fact, it doesn't fit any of our s... |
| Mar 30, 2011 | 9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month | Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster (@msuster) a VC at GRP Partners. He blogs at BothSidesoftheTable
I’m a very big proponent of the “lean startup movement” as espoused by Steve Blank & Eric Ries. The part of the movement... |
| Mar 28, 2011 | Is “Stealth” the Best Way to Build Your Business? | I’m just returning from another really great year at SXSW. It’s always fun to meet up with so many new and old friends in just a few days in Austin. Beyond that, one of my favorite things is bumping into so many entrepreneurs I’ve never met... |
| Mar 19, 2011 | Don't Bet Big. Little Bets Are The Ones That Turn Into Billion-Dollar Ideas | Editor’s note: The following guest post is by bestselling author and former venture capitalist Peter Sims. His next book, from which some of this article is exclusively drawn, is Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discove... |
| Mar 18, 2011 | New rules for the new Internet Bubble | Startups that master speed, tempo and pivot cycle time will win
Carpe Diem
We’re now in the second Internet bubble. The signals are loud and clear: seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Va... |
| Mar 9, 2011 | Startup Guru Steve Blank Says It’s Time for E-Schools, Not B-Schools | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
A few weeks ago I had very long lunch at Vitrine with Steve Blank, who’s famous in entrepreneurship circles as the originator of the “customer development” methodology for get... |
| Feb 9, 2011 | Help The Startup Genome Project Bring Silicon Valley To The Rest Of The World | All of us have been struck by the amazing learning experience being in Silicon Valley. The ecosystem that has evolved here is so advanced and unique that over the last 30 years it has been the single most influential driver of innovation gl... |
| Feb 5, 2011 | Introducing the Startup Genome Project | The Economic Significance of the Startup Genome
The role of technology entrepreneurship in our global economy has never been more important. The service and industrial sectors have dominated the global economy for hundreds of years but soon... |
| Jan 3, 2011 | OK, "Pivot" Is Officially Over-Used | Maybe you all saw this, but I’m catching up from vacation. It seems even the venerable, old-school New Yorker is mocking the over-use of the word “pivot.” And they are doing it in old-school cartoon form, no less. (As pointed out by Eric Ri... |
| Dec 7, 2010 | Why do we do this? | There's a chance to prevent failure and entrepreneurs are following 'best practices' that don't work
On April 1, 2009, I was as nervous as I have ever been in my life. It was just minutes before I was supposed to go on stage for the very fi... |
| Oct 27, 2010 | The lean startup bundle | Some books and good reading material to learn more about the lean startup
People often ask me if they can buy "Lean Startup in a box" from me. It's a strange thing, to be asked by a potential customer if they can give you copious ... |
| Oct 13, 2010 | Stop lying on stage | Do startup speakers tell the whole truth on stage? The simple answer is no
Entrepreneurs crave information about successful startups, and they should. Most of the received wisdom about business and entrepreneurship is simply wrong. Many jou... |
| Oct 6, 2010 | More Tech Stuff Baltimore Needs | Occasionally we here in the burgeoning tech community in Baltimore have paused to take stock about how far we’ve come, and what would be good to do next. About a year ago, Mike Subelsky made some suggestions on the BaltTech blog, and he’s r... |
| Oct 4, 2010 | Less is more, more or less | How do you find what the minimum features are?
In Customer Development the goal of a minimum feature set is to pare the features of the first product release to the minimum necessary for early customers.
But finding what those “minimum” fea... |
| Sep 29, 2010 | Good enough never is, or is it? | What matters is that our pursuit of learning is ongoing and our commitment is absolute
One of the sayings I hear from talented managers in product development is, “good enough never is.” It’s inspirational, always calling the team to try ha... |
| Sep 22, 2010 | Business Planning for the 'Lean Startup' | September 22, 2010 4 min read
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.
There's lots of talk these days about the so-called "lean startup." Most would think that just meant a startup without a lot of outside c... |
| Sep 20, 2010 | The visionary's lament | The talent is called the reality distortion field - an essential attribute of great startup founders
“But customers don’t know what they want!”
It’s an anguished cry that I have heard often from startup founders. In a way, I don’t blame the... |
| Sep 14, 2010 | The Superbowl ad test | How can I tell a vanity metric when I see it?
I am a firm believer in the danger of vanity metrics, numbers that give the illusion of progress but often mask the true relationship between cause and effect. Since I first started writing abou... |
| Sep 9, 2010 | Welcome to the new startup order | (Editor’s note: Brant Cooper is an independent startup consultant specializing in customer development and marketing. He submitted this story to VentureBeat.)
The difficulty of assessing change is knowing where you are on the curve. At any ... |
| Aug 23, 2010 | How customer development failed us | Guest post from Andrew Elliot of Lottay
One of the attributes of great entrepreneurs is that they are tenacious and relentless. This guest post is from Andrew Elliott of Lottay. Andrew read the Four Steps to the Epiphany, tracked me down at... |
| Aug 20, 2010 | Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium | An example of a company that performed a significant pivot while still moving at full speed
(Normally, I do not write about companies that are doing a marketing launch. But I have decided to make an exception today, for two reasons. First, ... |
| Aug 18, 2010 | The rise of the lean VC | Consumer Internet gets its own investors
Consumer Internet investing seems to have split off from traditional Venture Capital, and is creating a new category of VC’s: Lean VC’s. I think you can blame Customer and Agile Development for a sma... |
| Aug 13, 2010 | Revenue Development | In 1996, when I started my first company, SneakerLabs, Inc., we began by building chat servers. This was when the state of the art was click-to-refresh HTML form-based chats. SneakerLabs’ first product was a Java-based chat server and clien... |
| Jul 16, 2010 | XX Combinator | Tereza, an AVC regular and active community member, wrote a blog post yesterday proposing that someone start XX Combinator, a Y Combinator style startup accelerator focused on women in their 40s.
Here’s the basic argument:
Y Combinator part... |
| Jul 16, 2010 | Some IPO speculation | When private capital is available in sufficient quantities to satisfy liquidity, why go IPO?
Inspired by Steve Blank’s post today about the “lost decade” of IPO’s, I’d like to make some predictions. Let me be clear: Steve is the historian. ... |
| Jul 16, 2010 | The 'lack of women in tech' discussion | We are five years into a 20-year shift
The meme of the lack of women in tech (or software, or entrepreneurship) appeared in several places today. Regular readers of this blog know that I’ve been the chairman of the National Center for Women... |
| Jul 14, 2010 | Founder personalities... | and the "first-class" man theory of management
At any given time, something like four percent of the US population is engaged in some form of new-company-creation. And that narrow definition of entrepreneurship doesn’t count all o... |
| Jul 10, 2010 | Entrepreneur: You’re No Steve Jobs, So Look Before You Leap | I doubt that Steve Jobs has ever asked Apple customers what type of products they want, or that he cares about what they need. Jobs believed that if he developed a mobile phone that plays music and surfs the web, he could create both the wa... |
| Jun 23, 2010 | What comes after the minimally viable product? | One of the key parts of Eric Ries lean startup movement is the concept of a “minimally viable product”. The MVP is a product that has the minimum set of features needed to learn what the market wants. The idea behind the MVP is to spend as ... |
| May 12, 2010 | Vator Splash - Celebrating entrepreneurship | It's Vator in 3D - new ideas, lessons learned, feedback, investors, community and a measure of chaos
This Thursday is Vator's second Vator Splash event, a gathering of emerging stars and successful veterans, as well as the investors who fun... |
| Apr 19, 2010 | Thinking Inside the Box: Eric Ries On Creating Startups Within Large Organizations | Every now and then we hear the story of the entrepreneur who left his or her steady job at a large company to follow their dreams and create a startup, but we aren’t all as daring and brave to quit steady work, especially in a time of econo... |
| Apr 14, 2010 | Want a free ticket to next week’s lean startup conference? | Update: I’ve chosen a winner. Congrats to Gofeedit, and thanks to everyone else for their thoughtful comments!
Eric Ries, who cofounded virtual worlds startup IMVU, is devoting a conference next week to his idea of the lean startup. It soun... |
| Apr 14, 2010 | Business plan not working? Time to pivot | At a board meeting last week I watched as the young startup CEO delivered bad news. “Our current plan isn’t working. We can’t scale the company. Each sale requires us to handhold the customer and takes way too long to close. But I think I k... |
| Apr 2, 2010 | DEMO-VentureBeat tour hits DC on Wednesday: Pitch your company! | Come join us at a meetup in Washington, DC, this coming Wednesday for drinks, and to hear some pitches from cool technology companies.
We’ll be at the Public Bar from 6-8pm.
I’m bringing VentureBeat and DEMO to town, as part of tour of the ... |
| Mar 29, 2010 | Dean of Lean Eric Ries Announces Scholarships for Lean Startups | Eric Ries, the driving force behind the lean startup movement, announced Sunday on his blog Lessons Learned the creation of two scholarships for lean startups to attend upcoming conferences. A lean startup is one that takes advantage of var... |
| Jan 13, 2010 | Built For Speed: Turn Your Startup Into A Lean, Mean Iterating Machine | Entrepreneur Eric Ries, who previously co-founded the 3D avatar-based chat client IMVU, is also widely credited with coining the phrase “lean startup” in 2008. Ries recently gathered as many resources as he could muster for lean startups an... |
| Dec 19, 2009 | Stealth Startups, Get Over Yourselves: Nobody Cares About Your Secrets | When Preetam Mukherjee started Marcellus.tv in March 2007, his company was one of the very few players in the professional online video hosting space. He believed he was building a killer product that would become a blockbuster and would co... |
| Dec 14, 2009 | Spinvox close to $150 million exit to Nuance? Not so fast | [UK] Spinvox, Spinvox, Spinvox. It promised so much but in the end delivered only so much. Like a latter-day Boo.com it hyped its magical voice-to-text service to the stars, apparently built on highly advanced technology, but in the end it ... |
| Nov 3, 2009 | Lean startups aren’t cheap startups | (Editor’s note: Serial entrepreneur Steve Blank is the author of Four Steps to the Epiphany. This column originally appeared on his blog.)
At an entrepreneurs panel last week questions from the audience made me realize that the phrase “Lean... |
| Oct 21, 2009 | Incubating Change to Immigration Law with the Startup Visa Movement | Anyone familiar with internet startup culture knows how little capital it takes to start a tech company these days. With hardware and software costs practically nonexistent for most new companies, the main determinant of whether a promising... |
| Oct 19, 2009 | Innovation inside the box | The sandbox is an area of the product where certain rules are strictly enforced
I was recently privy to a product prioritization meeting in a relatively large company. It was fascinating. The team spent an hour trying to decide on a new pri... |
| Oct 15, 2009 | The hidden secrets of market research | All too often, the goal of market research is to hide assumptions, rather than test them. A depressingly large number of entrepreneurs forget the words of British Prime Minister George Canning (1770-1827), who said “I can prove anything by ... |
| Oct 7, 2009 | Embrace your startup failure – the faster you fail, the better | This is a guest post by Sam Collins, one of the team members of Loc8 Solutions, a finalist in Seedcamp London 2009. Sam founded TechMeetup (@Techmeetup) in Edinburgh which has brought together the largest community of Scottish tech enthusia... |
| Sep 24, 2009 | My story and support for the Founders Visa |
In the past few days there has been a lot of discussion on the topic of a Founders Visa. The credit for starting this fire goes to Paul Graham from Y Combinator, who wrote a great essay titled The Founders Visa in April 2009. Brad Feld (B... |
| Getting B2B Customer Interviews | If you missed my introduction to the concept of customer interviews and are not familiar with them, check out my previous post.
When planning early-stage B2B customer development, you are aiming to get a first meeting with a potential cu... |
| Reliance JioMeet Launch: Growth Hack, White-Labelled Zoom Or Silly Mistake? | Reliance’s video conferencing app JioMeet has recorded over 500K downloads with a 4.5-star rating on the Google Play Store along with an unreported number of downloads on the App Store on the first day of its launch, even though the app was... |
| O Dia Nacional da Micro e Pequena Empresa | Este post faz parte da série que o Instituto Empreender Endeavor organizou para esta semana, alinhando diversos blogueiros em torno do tema “cenário empreendedor no Brasil”.
Quero contextualizar o Dia Nacional da Micro e Pequena Empresa, co... |
| 10 блогов, которые стоит читать предпринимателям | 10 блогов, которые стоит читать предпринимателям
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Компания Grasshopper представила обновленную подборку блогов, которые они рекомендуют для прочтения интернет-предпринимателям и собственникам стар... |
| Hiten Shah of KISSmetrics: A Case Study on Pivots | Successful startups begin with an idea and then they change directions until they find something that works. Famous companies that are now household brands like PayPal, YouTube and even Facebook have changed directions multiple times in the... |
| Дилемма фаундера: Как правильно распределить доли в стартапе | Дилемма фаундера: Как правильно распределить доли в стартапе
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Перед вами — фрагмент книги профессора HBS Ноэма Вассермана (Noam Wasserman) под названием The Founder’s Dilemmas: Anticipating and Av... |