The Lean Startup is 10 years old now, so how does it hold up?

Fundamentally, the idea of building in small, iterative cycles has only gotten more important. There are more good no-code tools than ever before, so releasing an MVP for most apps should take hundreds of dollars instead of tens of thousands.

Last week, I collected my decade of lean startup experience to create this detailed guide to building a software startup in 2021. In the post, I cover:

- Ideation
- Validation
- Fundraising
- Hiring
- Marketing

And more. It's a long one, so buckle up or hop straight to the piece of the article you read and skim the rest.

- Karl Hughes

This month, I'm making three new hires. If you're interested in writing about Cloud Native topics or editing technical content, there might be something for you here.

This is an awesome story of an app with multiple second winds. Just shows you that you never know where things will go as an entrepreneur.

Business-to-business (B2B) writing is exactly what it says on the tin. Its written communication from one business to another, often illustrating how your business can help the other. Have a tool or service or product that youve built to make another companys workflow easier, say a hosting platform or a CI/CD SaaS? You need to communicate the benefits of it with B2B writing.

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