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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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Storage is what’s known as “highly fragmented,” meaning easier for a new entrant to get traction if it could design a better product / service / experience. You may have paid marketing: SEM, Social Media Ads, Banner Ads, email lists, etc. The top 5 players combined control less than 25% of the market. But you should.

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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! Don’t think about starting an incubator until you have real operating experience otherwise you don’t really have anything to offer startups.