June 2010
10 posts
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“Feedback is important, selling is important, getting the market to recognize...”
– Seth Godin ”Validation is Overrated“
Blink vs. Moneyball →
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“(Founders) spend so much of their time trying to convince everyone around them...”
– Eric Ries on why we want press coverage and why and when we should fight that urge.
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Don't Launch →
Sometimes just learning a new word can completely change the way you operate your business. Just one little word can have that much power. In this article that word is “Market Launch.”
The next time my investors ask me when we’re going to launch I will have two answers for them. One will be our “product launch” and the next will be our “market launch.”
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Another Video From Aaaron Patzer, Founder of Mint →
First off, did you know Aaron Patzer is from Evansville, Indiana? I had no idea, and considering how often I link to and post his stuff, I should have known that.
Anyway, some of my big takeaways:
“About 8 or 9 months before we launched Mint, we started a personal finance blog. We didn’t really have much money at this time, so we couldn’t hire any writers. We did the blog mostly ourselves....
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“There’s a big difference between adding a feature to an existing product and...”
– Dustin Curtis, I don’t laugh at startup ideas anymore
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My Issue with Entrepreneur Education
I wrote a response to a post on Smaller Indiana by Doug Karr about the 21 Fund and their mission.
In particular, I was responding to this quote: “(Steve Hourigan) shared that the benefit of the fund really isn’t the money as much as it is the education that they could be providing companies with the right resources.”
My comment:
“I really enjoyed this post and your...
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“Nail it before you scale it”
– @msuster http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/06/08/steven-blank-kills-it-at-greycroft-ceo-summit/
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“Good artists copy. Great artists steal.”
– Pablo Picasso