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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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The metrics were good but we wondered how much better they would be when we expanded our product. 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? Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine.