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73.6% of all Statistics are Made Up

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Often when they do I throw out my favorite statistic: 73.6% of all statistics are made up. One of our core tasks was “market analysis,&# which consistent of: market sizing, market forecasts, competitive analysis and then instructing customers on which direction to take. People throw them around at cocktail parties.

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7 Keys To A Winning Business As A Phone App Developer

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet according to other statistics, vanishing few of these ever generate a significant profit. The ideal business model is to establish a direct-to-consumer service that enables you to bill the customer directly. Position yourself to capitalize on the next frontier. Offer premium services after user is hooked.

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7 Lessons For Mobile App Developers To Beat The Odds

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet according to other statistics, vanishing few of these ever generate a significant profit. The ideal business model is to establish a direct-to-consumer service that enables you to bill the customer directly. Position yourself to capitalize on the next frontier. Offer premium services after user is hooked.

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Why You Shouldn’t Be Fooled by Your Own Expertise

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I was influenced heavily before my career even began because in my undergraduate work I took a ton of statistics classes that showed how easily we human brains fall prey to easy biases and slights of data and try to draw conclusions that don’t exist. I read it just after I entered the Venture Capital industry more than a decade ago.

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7 Winning Strategies For Smartphone App Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet according to other statistics, vanishing few of these ever generate a significant profit. The ideal business model is to establish a direct-to-consumer service that enables you to bill the customer directly. Position yourself to capitalize on the next frontier. Offer premium services after user is hooked.

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Scaling a Business by Cloning Yourself is Tough

Startup Professionals Musings

Products are tangible and can be consumed now or later, while services are intangible and have no shelf life. Obviously we can find many critical success factors, like finding and retaining high-value customers, which apply to companies that are product centric or services centric. Scaling services means cloning yourself.

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Products vs Services – Critical Success Factors

Startup Professionals Musings

Products are tangible and can be consumed now or later, while services are intangible and have no shelf life. Obviously we can find many critical success factors, like finding and retaining high-value customers, which apply to companies that are product centric or services centric. Scaling services means cloning yourself.

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