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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. Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses.

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Entrepreneurshit. The Blog Post on What It’s Really Like.

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That was the topic of my keynote at Seedcon, an event hosted by the University of Chicago, where I am a graduate of the MBA program. You’d imagine that every founder was getting rich. You’d imagine that every founder was getting rich. Actually, positive outcomes for founders are quite rare. Entrepreneurshit.

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Entrepreneurshit. The Blog Post on What It’s Really Like.

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That was the topic of my keynote at Seedcon, an event hosted by the University of Chicago, where I am a graduate of the MBA program. You’d imagine that every founder was getting rich. You’d imagine that every founder was getting rich. Actually, positive outcomes for founders are quite rare. Entrepreneurshit.

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