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One on One with A and Z #8: Which will last longer Harvard or the US?

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The Lean Stard Up Method

lean stard up method is based on the idea that companies can be built with a relatively small number of people. When you get to what we refer to in the industry as product market fit, it's really hard to do with five people or ten people. And so if you scale your company before you have product market fit, you'll probably never get product market fit. The second problem is you'll end a burning up a tremendous amount of cash if you don't build a sales force and try and build your second product before you've kind of figured out your first product.

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