What Makes A Startup Successful?

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/28/what-makes-a-startup-successful-blackbox-report-aims-to-map-the-startup-genome/

by bjoernlasseh • 15 years ago

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freshfunk• 15 years ago

I went through the startup profiling and it was pretty accurate and quite worth it. At the end, it also gives some pretty useful advice on moving forward. Definitely recommend this if you're doing a startup.

notsosmart• 15 years ago

Good article. What would be an example of premature scaling in a startup? Too many hires?

bjoernlasseh• 15 years ago

You can scale prematurely in different trajectories: customer development, product development, hiring, etc.

An example could be hire a salesforce before having a paying customer or to hire middle management with less than 15 people. On the product side its for example spending lots of time on a scalable backend before even having the user and payer identified.

tonystubblebine• 15 years ago

You can skip the TechCrunch article and go right to the source: http://startupgenome.cc/

sayemm• 15 years ago

High intensity, singular focus, product/market fit (http://pmarchive.com/guide_to_startups_part4), and determination (http://paulgraham.com/determination.html).

What Makes A Startup Successful?

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