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Startup Resources

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Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). VC & Startup Resources. Seed Startups. VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? About VC Cafe.

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

www.forentrepreneurs.com

SolidWorks 2: The best VAR management program in the world? SolidWorks 3: The best VAR management program in the world? Failure to get product/market fit right is very likely the number 1 cause of startup failure. I agree with Marc’s view that product/market fit is extremely important.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

Researchers divided the portfolio companies into six stages and startups are still operating a loss in each of the first four. That means the vast majority of privately held companies are still very dependent on venture money to stay in business. Especially since even Youtube is still struggling to try find a viable business model.

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The Startup Pivot

Reid Hoffman

The myth about pivots is that they are an exception: something undesirable that happens because a startup went seriously awry, and which you should strive to avoid. Actually, startups, like all businesses, work because of a cycle of invention and reinvention. Business model evolution is the rule, not the exception.

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