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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

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.

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How to find funding for your hardware startup while we’re waiting for the hardware revolution

Version One Ventures

This means the overall costs of launching a hardware product are coming down considerably, yet hardware is still costlier (and thus riskier) than software. Instead of taking a year to develop and launch one product, it might be advantageous to run through four development cycles in smaller batches. Patents versus traction.

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

Both Sides of the Table

They have have raised $2-3 million, built a product that has some amount of market traction and got to annualized revenues of around $1 million. If you spent the 3 years perfecting some hugely differentiated technology IP that may also be different. Is it one product line or multiple? They both raised angel / seed money of $1.5

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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret

cdixon.org

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. You’ll gauge people’s excitement level for the product and for various features. Quite early on, you will be able to differentiate yourself – and having competitors help you grow the market can actually be a good thing.

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How You May be Signaling Price without Knowing It

Both Sides of the Table

That’s OK if it’s your problem as long as your business really is differentiated and compelling. It might also be that your product isn’t complete enough, you don’t have enough evidence of success (by what ever measure is appropriate). His company had raised seed money already.

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Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

Languages like Tcl -- which powered Vignette s CMS products in the dotcom heyday -- are now rather unusual in web development. However, Java is not a particularly productive language to work with, and many elements of functionality can be delivered more rapidly in the other languages. framework was built. web applications.