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Advisors aren’t pokemon (but they are magical)

The Startup Toolkit

If you are entering a confusing new industry and need to understand it better, you just need to have some friendly conversations with industry experts, industry veterans, and a book. If you have an ongoing quagmire of an industry ahead of you, you should be able to get the knowledge from customer conversations.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

Customer development would be reduced to a single person exercise that could be repeated in parallel dozens of times over, ultimately yielding 30+ companies a year. on top of that often results in conversations and incentives that are difficult to overcome, especially early on in a company. Our model at Casual Corp.