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A nice overview on how to better understand your target customers.

Arguably, startups from the Samwer vicinity are very active and successful in their marketing approach. This German article with Video reference to Florian Heinemann (formerly a HHL-Ph.D.-student) explains the procedures, strengths, but also weaknesses of their way of doing marketing.

Nice introduction into employee participation programs.

Interesting article of a VC on how to approach deal-term negotiations

Great post about the value of a business person in the pre-launch phase of a startup….and the crucial launch phase

For those of you interested in the investment decision process of startups: a short introductory article on the major decision points a startup has to pass with an investment proposal.

Who is going to buy your product? This question is at the core of srutiny for any new business idea. Most entrepreneurs fail to actually come up with one, two or even more pilot customers, but keep on optimizing their product before they dare to launch it.

of couese you need to have a decent [...]