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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. If you create a business and start building products and go into an incubator or raise angel/seed money and don’t think about Market Size and Market Structure I only have one question: Why? That is how great businesses are built.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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Not because they didn’t want to do Pay-per-click (they are huge buyers of SEM) but because they didn’t want other people to know what they paid for clicks! They would launch quickly and test whether or not there is any demand. Google was clear that they WOULD NOT go into this business. I think this makes no sense.