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How to Avoid the Three Startup Danger Points

Software By Rob

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. I’ve communicated with hundreds of startup founders over the past three years, and I’ve begun to notice a pattern. This is a common cause of death for small startups.

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Why Free Plans Don't Work

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Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. The following is a guest article by Ruben Gamez of Bidsketch. Not too long ago it seemed like every product I knew was offering some sort of free plan. The strategy was brilliant: get loads of people using your product and eventually turn them into paying customers.

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Your Market is Smaller Than You Think

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Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. The subject of measuring market size comes up every few weeks in my interactions with startup founders, and one point I always raise is the difference between a top-down and bottom-up approach. But it worked for a lot of the dot com’s in the early 2000s.

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Ten Things I Will Never Have to Do Again

Software By Rob

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. September 29th, 2010 | Micropreneurship , Startups Building your startup? Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. Far more than I realized when I initially made the decision.

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Why Startup Founders Should Stop Reading Business Books

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Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. You’re a startup founder, whether actual or aspiring. The problem is that the premise of all of them – whether true or false – is irrelevant to you as a startup founder. You’re a constant learner; a student of life. But probably not.

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Ten Things I Will Never Have to Do Again

Software By Rob

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. September 29th, 2010 | Micropreneurship , Startups Building your startup? Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. Far more than I realized when I initially made the decision.

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The Software Product Myth

Software By Rob

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← I’m in a Book! Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Some choose consulting, but many more inevitably decide to build a software product.