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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. Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses.

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

The middle managers we talked to at catalog companies saw the Web not as an opportunity, but assomething that meant more work for them. Because so little money is involved, raising seedcapital is comparatively easy-- at least in the sense of getting aquick yes or no. Usually you get seed money from individual rich people called"angels."

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

I feel like I am winning the race because my paycheck from day job comes in every 2weeks and I am making money from my side projects. Maybe you can be the project manager and team up with someone else who is a prgrammer. Don’t use all your resources (time, energy and money) only to find that the product is a dud.

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Get Off My Lawn! Crazy Kids and Their Sex, Drugs and Startup Advice!

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A founder will raise one party round worth of seed money and they''ll go teach a class on how to raise venture capital. But, managing your career? They grew with the company and flurished as they learned how to be managers. That doesn''t feel like the perspective you get from a lot of advice givers these days.

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