Customers (and revenue) will always be your best investors and you don't have to cede any kind of control to them in return.
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startups
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Startup, I Choose You!
In a world where 'working on a startup' has become such a prevalent and socially accepted line on most of our biographies, we often forget to really question why we're risking everything in this pursuit.
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How I Made $4000 Selling a Product I Didn't Have
Our initial landing page was designed to do one thing: capture e-mail addresses that we can use as lead generation. The messaging was incredibly vague about what PublicBeta would actually be, but it was clear about one thing: entrepreneurship is tough and we wanted to help entrepreneurs.
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Doing it Wrong
If you have the passion and ambition to build the next Facebook or Instagram, then put your money where your mouth is and fund the thing yourself.
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Startups & Faster Learning
Regardless of whether you are bootstrapped or have a nice, comfortable war chest from fundraising, every day that you have unvalidated assumptions and you're not learning, is a day that costs you money.