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5 tips for scaling your green startup during a funding drought

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The dampened outlook for startup funding at the start of 2022 thanks to the pandemic’s lingering uncertainties has only worsened following a global market downturn and the war in Ukraine. You probably presented a minimum viable product and initial consumer research, and were backed for that. When it rains, it pours.

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How can fintech startups outlast the VC winter?

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Here are three tips for achieving those goals: Get feedback and insights from your customers with a working product. Aim high for the long term, but don’t work on anything except your minimum viable product (MVP) in the short term. It’s critical to gather feedback and insights from your customers.

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Choosing a cloud infrastructure provider: A beginner’s guide

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The promise of lower hardware costs has spurred startups to migrate services to the cloud, but many teams were unsure how to do this efficiently or cost-effectively. Early-stage startups building their first minimum viable product. Startups with products that have traction.

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3 experiments for early-stage founders seeking product-market fit

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Through this work, we’ve discovered a lot about how different founders fulfill their journey of customer discovery and product-market fit. We interviewed three founders from our portfolio, all of whom ran discovery experiments to find their product-market fit at different stages of their company’s development.

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3 views: How should founders prepare for a decline in startup valuations and investor interest?

TechCrunch

When I first considered this question, I jumped to the obvious: Private startups, noting the public market slowdown, will refocus on their runway in preparation for a parallel cooldown in venture funding. But, as we’ve discussed previously, there is no shortage of venture capital in the markets today.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: No-code MVP strategy, hiring under scrutiny, A/B growth testing

TechCrunch

In a comprehensive article that weighs development costs and technical debt against time to market , Chopra encourages readers to consider factors like product defensibility and risk before deciding whether to build or buy. Building a minimum viable product once required engineering and design ability.

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A complete guide: What is MVP Development?

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Introduction:- Traditional software development has been synonymous with sequential processes, often starting with simple designing to complex software product development. However, the advent of MVP(Minimum Viable Product) has been revolutionizing. How to build MVP?