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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

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I was about to become the first person in America to sell condom key chains. The first 3 had done startups themselves and the latter 4 had not. If you are a web startup , you can take max 6 months to release your first version( for something like mint.com).Simpler Post-Mortem Title : Why Wesabe Lost to Mint. Company : SubMat.

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Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) « Steve Blank

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But imagine if Donna had turned to her VP of Sales at Palm in 1996 and said, “I want to get 10% of the Personal Digital Assistant market by the end of our first year.” What Palm needed to do first was to educate potential customers about what a PDA could do for them. In essence, Palm created a New Market. . Like that, but better&#.

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Why Co-Founders Are a Startup's Biggest Liability | The Startup Lawyer

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Tags: startupcto. Contact The Startup Lawyer: Home Page About Contact FAQs Glossary Ryan Roberts Law: Home Page Social Networks: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Flickr Delicious Digg Last.FM He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder. Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.