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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

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This is part of my ongoing series “ Start-up Lessons. &# If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here. Imagine you pour 5 years of your life into your next gig and it starts to become successful. Starting with 25% is even harder. Not worth it.

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The Impact Matrix: Prioritize Your 2013 Initiatives Using This Startup Ninja Tool

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Dynamic, growing startups consistently identify more ideas and opportunities than they have the time or resources to pursue, including: entering into potential partnerships, developing new products and accessing emerging markets. Resources : 2 - relatively small. This article previously appeared in Forbes.

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

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But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? People often ask me why I started blogging. It really started simply enough. Not only would it be less authentic but if you’re a startup it’s not immediately clear that other startup CEOs are your target market.

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6 Hands-on Tips To Conquer Your Entrepreneurial Fears

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Seth began his entrepreneurial career when he dropped out of the University of California, Santa Barbara at 19 years old to start a clothing company, which he eventually built into a national line of denim products featured at Nordstrom, Macy’s and Neiman Marcus. Follow my startup-oriented Twitter feed here: @johngreathouse.

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Startup Lessons From The Beatles’ Biggest Failure

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Entrepreneurs can draw a number of startup lessons from the manner in which the Beatles' addressed Decca's devastating rejection. A startup can likewise ill afford to compromise when establishing its core team. Lesson - Startups have limited opportunities to secure key customers, investors and employees. Share and Enjoy.

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Lean Startup Legend Steve Blank Discloses His Most Daring Guerrilla Marketing Tactics

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In addition to being a thought leader within the Lean Startup Movement , Steve is also a professor at Stanford and Berkley. Despite these abundant resources, the team's ineffectiveness was reflected by the company's dismal 11% market share. The team failed to understand that marketing's primary role at a startup is to drive sales.

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What The Heck Does “Traction” Really Mean To A VC?

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Once people who do not know you and have no vested interest in your company's success begin expending their time, money and resources to leverage your value proposition, you are gaining traction. Although I have always been extremely persistent in my professional follow-up, no one has (yet) issued a restraining order asking me to back off.