Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

Passionate – is the company/product/customers the most important thing in your life? And I remind them that they should be bringing some type of domain expertise (technical or business) to the table. The Adventure of a Lifetime. Can you recognize and capitalize on them? Tenacious – can you keep going when everyone else gives up?

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 9, 2018

High growth startup companies need seed money to get things going. They need the money to rent offices, hire staff, and establish their initial presence (website, incorporation, marketing). When launching your company there are 2 times to raise your outside seed funding, and one time window to avoid.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

So for this first post, here’s the best advice I can give you: join an awesome founding team and get your product out the door ASAP. But six months in, you’re gonna cry when you see someone else put out that same product you’re pitching me right now. Like I said, forget everything else and just get your product out the door.

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www.paulgraham.com

AUGUST 1, 2008

Startups are undergoing the same transformation that technology does when it becomes cheaper. Its a pattern we see over and over in technology. Standardization When technology makes something dramatically cheaper, standardization always follows. In essense, let the market design the product.

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