Monday, February 26, 2007

Key note on reading "The 18 mistakes that kill startups"

link: http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html

Not Making something Users want

1) Single Founder
2) Bad location
3) Marginal Niche
4) Derivative Idea
5) Obstinacy
6) Hiring Bad Programmers
7. Choosing the Wrong Platform
8. Slowness in Launching
9. Launching too early
10. having no specific user in mind
11. raising too little money
12. spending too much
13.raising too much money
14. poor investor management
15. sacrificing users to supposed profit
16. not wanting to get your hands dirty
17. fights between founders
18. a half-hearted effort

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