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What is the Primary Reason For Startup Failure?

Startup Professionals Musings

The people around me are all turkeys.” So you made some bad hiring or partner decisions. Every entrepreneur has the challenge of making a market, or differentiating his product to match an existing market. Try bartering services you have for something you need. We all make people mistakes.

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There Are Alternatives When Your Startup Falters

Startup Professionals Musings

The people around me are all turkeys.” So you made some bad hiring or partner decisions. Every entrepreneur has the challenge of making a market, or differentiating his product to match an existing market. Try bartering services you have for something you need. We all make people mistakes.

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Your Startup Can’t Fail If You Don’t Quit

Startup Professionals Musings

The people around me are all turkeys.” So you made some bad hiring or partner decisions. Every entrepreneur has the challenge of making a market, or differentiating his product to match an existing market. Try bartering services you have for something you need. We all make people mistakes.

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Tech Support *is* sales

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

We've all been jarred by someone's voice not matching their picture. Apparently tech support is a better "social media outreach" program than hiring interns to spray comments on random blogs. Is there enough evidence of a conceptual mis-match that I should pivot? The unexpected face of your company. Are you surprised?

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I Love My Job

OnlyOnce

Cold turkey. So many people out there don't have that match between interest, passion, skill, and reality. I love who I work with: I have to admit that I stack the deck here since I do the hiring and firing, but the reality is that my colleagues at work are also my friends. I completely unplugged from work.

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I Love My Job

OnlyOnce

Cold turkey. So many people out there don't have that match between interest, passion, skill, and reality. I love who I work with: I have to admit that I stack the deck here since I do the hiring and firing, but the reality is that my colleagues at work are also my friends. I completely unplugged from work.

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I Love My Job

OnlyOnce

  Cold turkey.  So many people out there don't have that match between interest, passion, skill, and reality.  I love who I work with:  I have to admit that I stack the deck here since I do the hiring and firing, but the reality is that my colleagues at work are also my friends.    2.

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