Startup Featured VC funding benchmarks for startups "Back the right people. People make products. Products don't make people. Only a tiny percentage of people possess the managerial and motivational capabilities to build extraordinary growth companies." (Thomas J. Davis, Jr.)
Failure Featured Startup failure is a feature, not a bug Especially when over 85% of startups won't survive up to 10 years.
Startup How to refine intuitive ideas by learning from failure? "Figuring out how to show that your problem is wrong, is in essence how you work your way through innovating." (Dr. Luis Perez-Breva, 2017)
Startup [Part 1] How can learning from business failures help us compete creatively? "Even negative results provide us a chance to apply correctives, and in that way, help us improve our future behaviour." (Prof. Dietrich Dörner, 1989)
Startup How learning from business failures can help us innovate better? Learn the UVP/USP of others' to inspire your own UVP/USP design.
Startup How to validate your intuitive business idea with GV's Research Sprint? "Companies can succeed in great markets even with mediocre teams but great teams will always lose to a bad market." (Andy Rachleff)
Recommended Curated readings for June 2020 I'm regularly reading to improve my learning, and I'm sharing what I find useful with you to grow together.
Analysis Featured Why did 500 startups shut down? Discovering meaningful patterns in business failures.
Fundraising Featured First-time founders, read this before you raise money from VCs This guide is intended for founders who plan to raise their first round with "institutional" VCs (a.k.a VC firms and not business angels) which is, most of the times, a Seed or Series A round.
Analysis Featured Why did 150 startups fail? Here are the top 30 reasons for failure. Discovering meaningful patterns in business failures.
Failure Featured Everyone fails. So how do you overcome your fear of failure? You are not alone. Everyone fails. It is simply the way of life.
Startup Featured You’ve got an idea. But how do you validate a market for your product? Have you ever been told, 'ideas are cheap, execution is everything'? I am pretty sure that most of us must have heard of this saying.
Failure Featured Scientific progress is built on failure — and so is entrepreneurship While we all plan and strive to achieve success, we remain an open mind and heart towards embracing failure.
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