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Three Necessities for Startup Success — Marc Andreessen

May 31, 2010 Basics

Sea­soned ser­ial entre­pre­neur Marc Andreessen shares his three cri­te­ria for a suc­cess­ful start-up: There must be a sub­stan­tial mar­ket oppor­tu­nity A prod­uct that’s a 10x bet­ter solu­tion, and An out­stand­ing team. He goes on to state that there can be some com­pro­mise in the prod­uct area, but that the other two legs of a burgeoning […]

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Ten rules for Web Startups — Evan Williams

May 29, 2010 Basics

Be Nar­row Focus on the small­est pos­si­ble prob­lem you could solve that would poten­tially be use­ful. Be Dif­fer­ent First of all, real­ize that no suf­fi­ciently inter­est­ing space will be lim­ited to one player. In a sense, com­pe­ti­tion actu­ally is good—especially to legit­imize new mar­kets. Sec­ond, see #1—the spe­cial­ist will almost always kick the generalist’s ass. […]

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7 ways to assess a Startup Idea — David, Upstart Advisors

May 24, 2010 Basics
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High­lights: Does the idea meet your per­sonal cri­te­ria — Goals, pas­sion, skills, resources? Are mar­ket con­di­tions favor­able? Is there enough demand? Is it work­ing some­where, some­how? What’s the busi­ness model? (Unless, of course you are Twit­ter!) What will you need to exe­cute? What’s the pay­off? Read through the orig­i­nal post here.

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Startups in 13 Sentences — Paul Graham

May 23, 2010 Basics
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High­lights: Pick good co-founders: Co-founders are for a startup what loca­tion is for real estate. Launch fast: Launch­ing teaches you what you should have been build­ing. Let your idea evolve — Launch fast and iter­ate. Under­stand your users — You can envi­sion the wealth cre­ated by a startup as a rec­tan­gle, where one side is […]

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