Staying Alive
Your first job as an early stage startup founder is to get your first customer. Your second job is to stay alive so you can get the next one. [Tweet “Your first job as an...
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Call Your Customers
The most important tool to finding product-market fit is in your hand right now and a lot of founders are too scared to use it. Pick up the phone and call your customers. It seems obvious,...
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The Open Circles of Great Startup Communities
People like Brad Feld have done a lot of writing on startup communities and what makes strong entrepreneurial ecosystems unique. Some of it is tangible — great engineering schools (Stanford), tech success stories (Google/Apple/Facebook), access...
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What Happens When Your App Gets Featured on a National Morning Show…and it Doesn’t Work
Short answer: downloads will still go up. Last week, Speak Chic was featured as the “App of the Week” on Sunrise on Channel 7. Sunrise is known as “Australia’s number one breakfast show” and...
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