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30 tips for avoiding startup failure, from successful founders

The Next Web

Focus on the problem => solution => value => profit chain of events, and try to make a pass through this sequence sooner than later. If you pick one vertical and do it well, other folks will find you. Stay lean for as long as possible. Be creative, and stay lean. Alan Johnson , Co-founder of Treehouse. Also, be strategic.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

The new “discovery&# will be a continuous series of events, starting with a niche following and, for the successful artists, gradually transitioning into mainstream success. If they don’t, there are a new breed of lean startups who understand this deep in the bones ready to take their place. 12comments: Dougvs said.

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web.

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Thanksgiving Day

Steve Blank

So no post today on entrepreneurship, Secret History of Silicon Valley, Customer Development, Lean Startups, etc. Reply steveblank , on November 26, 2009 at 10:29 am Said: Just the stories of the entrepreneurs are bigger than life. The size of the story grows directly proportional to the number of years removed from the event.)

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Who's An Entrepreneur-Talk with the Kauffman Foundation « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Rich Karlgaard , publisher of Forbes and co-founder of the Churchill Club refereed the event. BTW, the definition of entrepreneurship I describe at 2:50 into the video is described in detail in the post “ You’re Not a Real Entrepreneur.&# I think the expectation was that putting the two of us together would see the fur fly.

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Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores.

Steve Blank

He even remembered the names of their wives and kids and some details about schools or events. (I were the first computer entrepreneurs here. We shook hands with the customers, but instead of launching into a product pitch (or better, letting me launch into the pitch) he started asking how their families were. Were we anything first?

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Ask and It Shall be Given « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

For entrepreneurs good things come to those who ask. Entreprenuers Know How to Ask Successful entrepreneurs have the ability to ask for things relentlessly. Entrepreneurs are fearless, persistent and uninhibited about asking – whether it’s asking to assemble a team, get financing, sell customers, etc.