The academic challenge to start your company.
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One of our great speakers @robfitz has more great advice: stop wasting talent on stuff you're not good at, read more: ow.ly/rtA7I
RT @gruenderszene: "Startups want to become mature organizations- and large corporations want to be startups"- @cadler #pioneers13...
Strategies if someone else has the same idea (in a large fragmented market): be 10x better, find a nich or be 10x cheaper. #ycofficehours...
RT @konsultori: "Pivoting is over-glamourized. Keep the empathy with your service even in hard times." @thulme #pioneers13
Our second virtual talk with @robfitz on the "mom test – how to understand what your customers really want" is about to start.
RT @PioneersHQ: "Watching our competitors shifted our focus away from where it should be, on our own purpose", @cadler at #pioneers13
Everyone in the company should be the primary advocates for your product. Get them using it. Event the C-league. @cadler @thulme #pioneers13
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Don't use vanity metrics like page visits, measure against your true purpose like pushups for @runtastic. @cadler @thulme #pioneers13
"Define your Purpose, stay true to it. People first, everything else second. Real progress controls pace." @cadler @thulme #pioneers13
"When you start a company: are you really a CEO?" @cadler @thulme at #pioneers13 - No, you're all still makers!
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The need for money has changed. Dave McClure: "Pre 2000: big fat dinosaur startup, Now: lean little cockroach startups" #pioneers13
Troublemaker @davemcclure: what is missing in most startups: a cash flow positive customer scalable acquisition process #pioneers13
Troublemaker @davemcclure on stage "Startups are being built faster and cheaper than before. Often even better than before" #pioneers13
SoundCloud has a community team that observes emerging behaviour, identifies problems and bad behaviour and communicates rules....
Have a good TOS but translate it into readable language to convey your values, especially for privacy concerns. Example twitter #pioneers13
"Startups don't get easier, they just get faster." Patrick Collison, Founder of Stripe, talking about success. #pioneers13
Founders Battle retweeted
"Failing at your own startup is better than going to a college to learn from case studies of other startups" @davemcclure #pioneers13 – at Vienna, Austria
"Unlimited holidays, free housecleaning not a perk for new hires, but rather it's removing productivity obstacles." @plibin #pioneers13