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Founders and dysfunctional families « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Founding a company is a sheer act of will and tenacity in the face of immense skepticism from everyone – investors, customers, friends, etc. You literally have to take your vision of the opportunity and against all rational odds assemble financing, and a team to help you execute. And that’s just to get started.

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Episode 8: Charlie’s Bcast Email, Startup Incubators, and 10 Reasons Why Startups Fail | The Bcast

Up and Running

They never worked with the startup who had needed to raise multiple rounds of financing. ” You’re like, “Oh” and you’re lawyers in Hawaii. You need to go out and do some customer development. They don’t have someone else who can step in. That’s not really helpful. Use the product.