Startup Advice

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How do you become a 100-year company?

Taste is a double-edged sword. Because it is ephemeral, you’re untouchable if you have it. Competitors won’t be able to copy it—what is there to copy?

One of the best ways to introduce a sense of urgency is to create a series of forcing functions: deadlines, milestones and goals with clearly-defined objectives,” Palan writes in a Medium article about the experience. “TechCrunch Disrupt was just the forcing function we needed. It forced us to tackle many of the things we’d been postponing. We... See more

Separate what you can control from what you can’t. It’s a small way to lift some weight off your shoulders. Take 15 minutes to create a list of everything that you’re worried about. Then label each one as a ‘within’ or a ‘beyond’ to see your sources of stress and anxiety laid bare

To help you make it through the darkness, here’s a series of concrete actions you can take today to try to turn things around:

1. Talk to more users (actually do it)


2. Change your target audience/ICP


3. Change your positioning/messaging/pitch


4. Try a “kickstarter” to get the word out


5. Find something that is working and pivot fully to that


6. Give it a bit more time


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