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Start-ups: Before You Launch Your Product, Start With a Service

Harvard Business Review

Most industry observers take the position that companies get distracted if they try to bootstrap a product with a service. But from where I sit, bootstrapping products with services is a tried and true method. AgilOne, a company that provides cloud-based predictive customer analytics, was founded by Omer Artun in 2006.

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How to Fund Indian Start-Ups

Harvard Business Review

Today we’re seeing a maturing of the industry, and entrepreneurs now want to build products as well. Or they want to combine products and services. But in 2011, $30 billion was invested by angels and $24 billion by Series A venture capitalists. As such, you cannot expect to be able to get to a product-market fit in three months.