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The Startup Copycat Fallacy

View from Seed

It seems as though in many categories, especially in consumer internet space, a handful of startups pursuing quite similar or even apparently identical ideas launch within months of each other. independently come to launch very similar products/services. Another d2c gourmet pet food company ?

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7 Keys To Being An Exceptional Business Leader Today

Startup Professionals Musings

Today, with the Internet and social media, if you aren’t visible in a positive way to everyone, including customers, your leadership efforts will be lost. In this age of total access via the Internet, you can’t hide relationships, or the lack of them. Build relationships with known business leaders.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Disruptors

Hearpreneur

He has been instrumental in the development of artificial intelligence and machine learning, which are key areas of focus for Google. Unpakt has experienced enormous development, with over one million move books currently available on its site. Thanks to Teo Vanyo, Stealth Agents ! #21- Thanks to Garrett Hayes, Birding Hub ! #10-

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Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up

Startup Lessons Learned

bigs : @ericries says Stealth dev is a (undesirable, failure-presaging) customer-free zone. LeanStartup Of course, a big enabler of those kinds of mistakes is stealth-mode. Another recent meme that I hope more and more startups will take to heart: "stealth is a customer-free zone." Use some customer development to find out.

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

Turns out, there was aboslutely no demand whatsoever for that particular product. Oops - there went several precious weeks of development effort down the drain. And if you dont know who your customer is, perhaps some customer development is in order? What is customer development? Eric -- This is a pretty interesting idea.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice.

www.humbledmba.com

Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice. As in stop being in stealth mode. I started my first internet company while getting my MBA. I remember calling up my best friend to tell her I was starting a company but refused to tell her how the product would work. Most companies miss the mark on the first product.

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SXSW Startups: AirPop Makes Healthy Air

Austin Startup

Bruce Sterling’s closing keynote/rant where he talked about the internet in 2007 as “folk” technology. This deliberate cross-border setup allows us to directly leverage China’s supply base, manufacturing capabilities and Shenzhen hardware ecosystem, so we are already experts at developing, manufacturing and scaling. I attended in 2007.