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6 Startup Challenges That Can Be Mitigated With Focus

Startup Professionals Musings

Many of the business plans I have seen as an investor, like trying to integrate all the social media features of Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn into a new platform, don’t do it. It’s tough for an elephant to be agile. Your personal bandwidth is quickly exceeded.

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6 Reasons Why More Is Not Better In Your Next Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Many of the business plans I have seen as an investor, like trying to integrate all the social media features of Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn into a new platform, don’t do it. It’s tough for an elephant to be agile. Your personal bandwidth is quickly exceeded.

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6 Ways That Lack Of Focus Can Kill Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Many of the business plans I have seen as an investor, like trying to integrate all the social media features of Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn into a new platform, don’t do it. It’s tough for an elephant to be agile. Your personal bandwidth is quickly exceeded.

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6 Reasons Why Bigger Is Not Better In Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Many of the business plans I have seen as an investor, like trying to integrate all the social media features of Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn into a new platform, don’t do it. It’s tough for an elephant to be agile. Your personal bandwidth is quickly exceeded.

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Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Steve Blank

It’s hard to imagine, but in the 20th century there were no startup blogs or books on startups to read, and business schools (the only places teaching entrepreneurship) believed the best thing they could teach startups was how to write a business plan. 2. Information is everywhere.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

Everything a large company did, a startup should do – write a business plan; hire sales, marketing, engineering; spec all the product features on day one and build everything for a big first customer ship. Not kind of wrong but going out of business wrong. We now understand that’s wrong. And it’s that Information is everywhere.

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