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The leap from employee to entrepreneur – Small Business Spotlight

Up and Running

Ben Lamson and Sulaiman Sanni, WeDidIt cofounders. “The way we differentiate ourselves is that we’re much more than a platform. We actually consult with each client, and tend to become an extension of their marketing team or development office.” It’s never easy to leave a stable job to launch a startup.

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How to Build a Global Center of Innovation Excellence in Salzburg, Austria

Pascal's View

I recently joined the Advisory Board to Gerhard Blechinger , the Rector of the FachHochschule Salzburg, (the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences) and became a guest lecturer on Entrepreneurship at the University. Why is this the case? He published the book Zero to One in 2014.

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Why Content Favors the Old (Entrepreneur)

pandodaily.com

That aesthetic took decades to develop. More to the point, the relationships with vendors, know-how of product hunting and credibility in the design world took decades to develop. “It’s about passions, and I didn’t have fully developed passions yet at 21.” “This one is just so much fun.”

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Building Great Founding Teams

Steve Blank

There’s been a lot written about the individual characteristics of what makes a great founder , but a lot less about what makes a great founding team and how that’s different from a great founding CEO. In doing so we’ve failed to help founders understand what it takes to build a great founding team. Founders – the idea.

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Pivot, don't jump to a new vision

Startup Lessons Learned

Each has its own iterative process: customer development and agile development respectively. The hardest part of entrepreneurship is to develop the judgment to know when its time to change direction and when its time to stay the course. IMVU had a roughly two-month-long development cycle. Both are lethal outcomes.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #14: Selling to the “Cool Kids”

Austin Startup

I discuss category creation with one of the co-authors of Play Bigger , Christopher Lochhead, in episode #232 of Legends and Losers if you would like to really delve into that (it is a very important topic). Develop a personal board of advisors about that topic. it isn’t easy. Go seek out the experts.

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90 Things I've Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies

betashop.com

I firmly believe that in this age where the product development life-cycle is so short and user feedback comes so quickly, you will know within a year whether you are focusing on a worthwhile one thing. Have amazing co-founders who are better at what they do than you could ever be. If you cannot gain traction in 1 year, pivot.