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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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Most of this advice boils down to an argument in favor of basic planning before starting a company or raising money. In many ways the fact that it has become so cheap to start a company and relatively cheap to raise angel/seed money that we as an industry have gotten lazy on basic planning. Market Structure.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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the meebo that launched in 2005 was a group effort – the idea primarily came from sandy being a huge IMer and having trouble getting on IM when we were working on earlier ideas in elaine’s apartment! For both companies, the initial traction enabled raising seed money to get them to a traditional VC investment.)