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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. For example, if you’re going to build a travel planning website (as many, many startup entrepreneurs do) your basic research would be: How much do people spend on travel books / guides today? Market Size.

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

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It was a pleasure to write them myself. 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! He had the idea that people would want city guides to tell them where to eat and what to do. Overture (Goto.com).