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Startups & Miracles
Startups also have a true north, a destination in mind: creating a thriving and world-changing business. I call that a startup’s vision. To achieve that vision, startups employ a strategy, which includes a business model, a product road map, a point of view about partners and competitors, and ideas about who the customer will be. The product is the
... See moreEric Ries • The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
The Problem with the "Right Idea"
The myth of the “right idea” is one of the biggest traps for aspiring founders. People imagine startups begin with a lightning bolt of inspiration: the one perfect idea that changes everything. But that’s not how it works.
Ideas evolve. Airbnb didn’t start as a marketplace for lodging—it was a website to rent air ma... See more
The myth of the “right idea” is one of the biggest traps for aspiring founders. People imagine startups begin with a lightning bolt of inspiration: the one perfect idea that changes everything. But that’s not how it works.
Ideas evolve. Airbnb didn’t start as a marketplace for lodging—it was a website to rent air ma... See more
Why Pre-Founder?
Winners also recognize their startup “vision” as a series of untested hypotheses in need of “customer proof.”
Bob Dorf • The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company
The two most important things to understand about startup investing, as a business, are (1) that effectively all the returns are concentrated in a few big winners, and (2) that the best ideas look initially like bad ideas.
Paul Graham • Black Swan Farming
In The Lean Startup (2011), Eric Ries argues that the main reason startups fail is because they spend far too long trying to build the perfect product only to launch, almost out of money, with a “perfect” product... that nobody wants.