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Transcript of How to Turn Your Product Idea Into a Business

Duct Tape Marketing

Exactly, the prior product would have been a kind of clunky speedometer that had no connectivity to a community or to a manufacturer to your phone. What’s the best path for that kind of maker to circumvent the traditional distribution channels? The traditional channels, by the way, are still powerful.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

A good mentor is someone who has been part of the startup community themselves – someone who has a realistic understanding of some of the basic dos and don’ts of starting up. Twitter is an excellent distribution channel for us. (B) You don’t need many – one or two to begin. Sure you don’t have to take VC money to build out a product.

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Finding Your Co-Founders

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Sean and Shawn from Napster met in an IRC channel. Other cities like New York, Boston, Seattle, LA and Austin TX also have pretty strong startup communities. In my case, I grew up in Connecticut and spent a fair amount of time in New York – all the while trying to start companies, relatively unsuccessfully.