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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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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

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If you spent the 3 years perfecting some hugely differentiated technology IP that may also be different. They both raised angel / seed money of $1.5 ” Harsh, but reality. If you had huge customer growth but just didn’t focus on revenue that’s a different story. Both companies look the exact same after one year.

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How You May be Signaling Price without Knowing It

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That’s OK if it’s your problem as long as your business really is differentiated and compelling. His company had raised seed money already. Obviously the diagnosis can have many route causes: Sometimes it’s a question of a market that is less sexy than the current VC fad. It was the silent killer.

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