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How to know when it’s time for your startup to stop DIY-ing legal work

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From the outside looking in, the world of startups can feel informal: You meet your co-founder at a happy hour, your lead investor over Twitter DMs, and focus more on launching a minimum viable product than buttoning up onboarding processes. But that’s not where the story stops.

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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. Where are you going to meet them? What does that look like in reality?

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Here’s what I learned while leading a bootstrapped startup to $40M ARR

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But, one of the greatest challenges we were able to avoid was starting with a finished product. We decided before even coming up with a name, that the most important thing would be to start with a minimum viable product (MVP). In other words, the bare minimum required for someone to use it and get value out of it.

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GSK and R/GA Ventures are launching a health studio for startups

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with a minimum viable product, or be ready to perform in-market development. with at least a minimum viable product in service or in-market. . We’ve all been in those meetings where you meet people and you’re like ‘my goodness, what you are trying to achieve is absolutely incredible.’

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MVP versus EVP: Is it time to introduce ethics into the agile startup model?

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The rocket ship trajectory of a startup is well known: Get an idea, build a team and slap together a minimum viable product (MVP) that you can get in front of users. If your product is later found to not meet the ethical standards of the market, you can’t simply delete the data and find new data. Contributor.

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Global VC Flourish launches Madica, an Africa-focused program to back pre-seed stage startups

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And while venture capital and founder support programs within the continent are growing, a lot still remains to be done to meet the financing, technology and social capital needs of the especially marginalized groups like women founders. This is part of its push to ensure a pan-African reach by supporting local, and women founders.

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Hustle Fund wants to help spawn a new generation of angel investors

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The firm has traditionally operated by investing $25,000 in a company, usually with a minimum-viable product, and then works with the team to help them grow. It does around 50 investments per year, according to its website. . It recently closed on $33.6 million for a new fund.