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1. Pick good cofounders
2. Launch fast
3. Let your idea evolve
4. Understand your users
5. Better to make a few users love you than a lot ambivalent
6. Offer surprisingly good customer service
7. You make what you measure
8. Spend little
9. Get ramen profitable
10. Avoid distractions
11. Don't get demoralized
12. Don't give up
13. Deals fall through

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Microsoft is giving free software to startups around the world to encourage them to develop products that span the Web, PCs and phones, the company said today.

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The economic situation is apparently so grim that some experts fear we may be in for a stretch as bad as the mid seventies.

When Microsoft and Apple were founded.

As those examples suggest, a recession may not be such a bad time to start a startup. I'm not claiming it's a particularly good time either. The truth is more boring: the state of the economy doesn't matter much either way.

If we've learned one thing from funding so many startups, it's that they succeed or fail based on the qualities of the founders. The economy has some effect, certainly, but as a predictor of success it's rounding error compared to the founders.

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Often people start a company without any clear idea of what a company is. Entrepreneurs closet themselves in the garage and start writing code. While the modern tech world could not exist without obsession, artistic inspiration and crazy engineers, there'

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As I set out to apply these lessons the 2nd time around, I promised myself that I would periodically stop to write an update. I had meant to do the first update after 6 months at socialmedian but we got so busy with our recent beta launch that I'm just n

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True enough, I believe that too, but my point is that the early adopter you really need just isn’t located in Silicon Valley.

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I was interviewing a candidate for Big in Japan and I asked him what his biggest failure was. He answered the question thoughtfully and at the end of the interview, as I always do, I asked the candidate if he had any questions for me. His first question,

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We don't like to sit on these ideas, though, because we really want people to work on them. So we're trying something new: we're going to list some of the ideas we've been waiting to see, but only describe them in general terms. It may be that recipes for

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I guess you can either sell $20 software to 10,000 people a year, or $20,000 software to one business a year that buys 10 seats, and either way have a pretty good lifestyle business. I don't know which is easier, but I did the latter. When it was just mys

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I’d like to take one more crack at this whole “free vs. not free” aspect of software pricing for startups.

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Y Combinator's model dovetails perfectly with the new start-up ethic in Silicon Valley. It's dramatically cheaper to start a company now than it was in the dot-com boom, and possible to build a substantial operation before requiring venture capital or ach

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1.0 A one-page "Introduction" that can double as a very brief executive summary. First paragraph must be concise and compelling. Should describe what you're doing in terms of your focus, the technology on which you depend, reference the market and its gro

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Enter placeblogging. Placebloggers are local citizens who know what is going on in their town and take the time to talk about it on the web. They blog about local real estate concerns, town politics, the high school baseball game, the opening of a new sta

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There are three primary ways to generate revenue from web-based software. Let’s take a look…

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I’ve provided postings of audio and video of my speeches that covered the topics of innovation and evangelism, but this is the first one of “The Art of the Start.” It’s the first one, frankly, because I’ve been waiting until I did it very —sta

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The startups we've funded so far are pretty quick, but they seem quicker to learn some lessons than others. I think it's because some things about startups are kind of counterintuitive. We've now invested in enough companies that I've learned a trick for

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The second part of this series (see part 1, Planning to Make the Leap) will cover some of the less exciting—but extremely important—business details that go into starting a company. Much of this will be the farthest from your personal experience and c

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A panel of experts and industry practitioners will examine what it takes to get a web business up and running from scratch. We'll teach you to bite back for a change.

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