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How to secure funding
How to market and sell your product or service
How to scale and grow your business
Building A Startup
When building a company, launch earlier rather than later.
By launching early, you’ll get feedback from customers sooner and will be able to make adjustments to improve the product.
Refine and refine your solution to better solve the problem your customers face
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Recruit An Amazing Team
When looking for your first hires, you need to find people who are as passionate about solving that problem as you are
If you’re trying to build a startup in the software space but don’t have any coding experience, find a cofounder that does
Not every company has to be a venture-backe...
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10X Your Chances Of Startup Success
To 10x your chances at startup success: Fix a problem that you yourself have.
- Make a list of 15-20 problems in your life
- Rank them by the most painful
- Build a product that solves one of them
This is crucial because:
- You’ll have a familiarity wit...
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When To Delegate Work
At a certain point, your company will be too big for you to do everything. That’s where delegation comes in.
If you’re too much of a control freak, you won’t let others blossom and you’ll limit the growth of your company.
When you delegate, you won’t get 100% of the results you wa...
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Find A Better Playground For Your Creativity
Why did James move from San Francisco to Los Angeles?
- James felt there were more creative individuals in LA than SF
- SF was an engineering-focused space that was very financially driven
- The relationships in SF tend to be more transactional than anything else
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- Companies have two customers: the people you sell to and your employees.
- Direct, raw, unfiltered feedback from customers is much better than reports from within the company.
- When customers reach out, and they know they're heard and that their feedback will improve the product...
5. Your time estimates are... a little off!
Solution: Make a habit of starting earlier than you think you’ll need to and work on completing your task early.
Verifying The Business Model
This pre-launch phase of the customer discovery process involves answering three critical questions:
- Have you found a product-market fit? You have to be sure your product is a good fit for the market. Is this something a lot of people need? How well does it solve...
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