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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

Companies that reliably fail to make their forecasted numbers are exceptionally prone to “management retooling.&# One way to conceive of our goal in an early-stage venture is to incrementally “fill in the blanks&# for the business model that we think will one day power our startup.

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10 years of entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

We were focused on revenue, but we didnt understand that revenue is not important for its own sake in an early stage company. In fact, I remember sending him and his obscure-to-me co-founder (aka Reid Hoffman ) a bug report early-on, instead of taking them up on their offer of an in-person meeting. all about luck.