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6 Mistakes Often Made By Entrepreneurs Due To Passion

Startup Professionals Musings

Just because you would have loved to have your groceries picked out and delivered, doesn’t mean the mainstream customer was ready for Webvan in 1999. Never take your eye off the ball in business. While there should be no stigma for failure, there is no joy in being a dead business walking.

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6 Ways To Doom Your Startup Despite A Great Solution

Startup Professionals Musings

Just because you would have loved to have your groceries picked out and delivered, doesn’t mean the mainstream customer was ready for Webvan in 1999. Never take your eye off the ball in business. While there should be no stigma for failure, there is no joy in being a dead business walking.

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6 Ways Startups Are Fooled By Prior Business Models

Startup Professionals Musings

Just because you would have loved to have your groceries picked out and delivered, doesn’t mean the mainstream customer was ready for Webvan in 1999. Never take your eye off the ball in business. While there should be no stigma for failure, there is no joy in being a dead business walking.

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Learn the Laws of the Jungle for Business Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

In 2012, total entrepreneurial activity in the United States hit its highest level since their survey started in 1999, according to Babson College. This means building a revenue stream, and tuning your business model to produce margins in the 50% range or above. It’s a jungle out there. If you want to survive.

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Don’t Let Your Business Be A Dead Startup Walking

Startup Professionals Musings

Just because you would have loved to have your groceries picked out and delivered, doesn’t mean the mainstream customer was ready for Webvan in 1999. Never take your eye off the ball in business. While there should be no stigma for failure, there is no joy in being a dead business walking.

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Fixing Tech – A Manifesto from a Raving Capitalist

Start Up Blog

After the Dot Com crash of 1999, most yet-to-be-disrupted big firms got back to business. So here it is: for all the privacy invasions, security risks and and fundamental changes in our personal and domestic domains, this is what these companies* generate in revenue: Google – about $150 a year per person.