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Founders: Learning should be your top 2013 New Year’s resolution

The Next Web

How to identify and engage the first customers for your product, and how to gather, evaluate and use their feedback to make your product, marketing and business model far stronger. Social media marketing for startups : How to use social to launch, position your messaging and get distribution.

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90 Things I've Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies

betashop.com

But, you can iterate and iterate on features, but you cannot iterate your way to a business model. I’ve seen too many businesses get stuck or fail because of their endless pursuit for the magic new feature that is going to help them gain traction. Getting social right is hard. Your customer is growing up on social media.