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Customers Love Free Stuff … But That’s Not Your Problem

abovethecrowd.com

On the demand side, the IPO process is limited to a handful of institutional investors and also ignores the vast majority of retail investors. Investment banks simply do not match supply and demand. The vast majority of all bond offerings are priced using the order matching system. I kid you not —100% true.

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Why Startups Fail - 20 Top Reasons Gleaned from 32 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

www.chubbybrain.com

It lacked the audience my product needed to succeed – the early adopters web hackers looking for the next cool toy to play with. 11 – Pricing Issues. Pricing is one part science, 10 parts art. We so often see good ideas, without a good understanding of customer demand (reason number 2). Best, The Chubby Team.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

It is a hangover of other days, of thin-skinned geeks who cannot still be heeded on the big, wide web. until I couldn't seem to find a way from getting away from all these nasty, vulgar teens (or people pretending to be teens) demanding explicit sex every time I went there. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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