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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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Equally, hoping to unseat TripAdvisor without understand their SEO strengths and how much it would cost to knock them down would be naïve. If you create a business and start building products and go into an incubator or raise angel/seed money and don’t think about Market Size and Market Structure I only have one question: Why?

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What I Would Look for When Choosing a VC – Knowing What I Know Now?

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SEO marketing vs. social marketing. The other problem with extreme success is that for some VCs it makes them disinterested in middling outcomes, things that take a long time to incubate or solving thorny problems when a company doesn’t immediately move up and to the right. Think of web vs. mobile. Traditional software vs. SaaS.

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