Category: Opportunity Assessment
14 Startup Pitfalls to Avoid
Great list of common mistakes when starting your business.
5 Attributes of a Sure Fire Startup
If you consider the following attributes before you start thinking about creating or realigning your business, you might come to understand how to turn your start-up into a sure fire success.
Four Rules for running with the big dogs
Understanding the process of competing against big and/or existing competitors is always a challenge.
How Freemium Can Work for Your Startup
Om talks about how the feemium model can work for startups using specific examples: Evernote, Remember the Milk, and Dropbox
How To Compete
Chris examines quite a few ways you can compete and beat the competition
Advice and insight from an interview with Y Combinator's Paul Graham: Get your product out there, what Y Combinators could go public and comments on starting up during a recession.
I sent all the founders an email asking what surprised them about starting a startup. it was remarkable how often several people had been surprised by exactly the same thing. These were the biggest.
Startup Lessons from the Underpants Gnomes: PROFIT!
Dharmesh examines the problem for many internet startups: a lack of plans for making profit. He then discusses the thought process for properly planning a business to make a profit.
Startup Metrics for Pirates
Great overview in a slideshare presentation of how to make your startup successful.
Q: What's the one thing in common among every business plan that has ever been pitched to an investor? A: The plan is wrong. The key is adapting. Mike provides some tips for doing so.
