Importance of branding to startups?

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How important is branding to an early stage startup?

Answered by Brad Feld – Investor and entrepreneur.

They key thing is to pick a brand / name, keep it simple, and stick with it. The worst thing you can do is keep changing it as you grow, or have a complex sub-branding sche... (more)

What are some tips for managing cash flow at the beginning of your startup. For example, you borrow money to pay a development team and it takes them a couple of months to ...

Answered by Michael Garrity – Founder, CommunityLend

Good question and a hard question. Your best bet is to convince everyone you deal with of the future value of your company and to take all or some of their required paymen... (more)

I know you're a strong supporter of the "lean startup" movement: any advice on how a later-stage (read: already launched) can implement lean principles?

Answered by Dan Martell – Founder & Investor. Posted in Product Development

I think it's fairly stragithforward if you use the lean startup roadmap designed by Eric Ries. http://danmartell.posterous.com/the-lean-startup-roadmap-by-ericries-designe... (more)

We developed a simple iDevice accessory which has been on sales since January 2011. People who need our product love our product. We get amazing marketing returns from user...

Answered by Saul Colt – WOM Expert

Have you thought of staying true to your product message but also opening it up broader to people without kids? This is a cool product and useful but if people don't have c... (more)

Hello, I'm working on a product that actually targets startups. My question to you, how important is it to startups to hire employees that they truly click with on cultura...

Answered by Eric Ries – Founder of the Lean Startup methodology. Posted in Resources

See http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2008/11/abcdefs-of-conducting-technical.html (more)

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