Four Things to Get Right When Starting a Company

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/05/four_things_to_get_right_when.html

by hellacious • 14 years ago

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dmbaggett• 14 years ago

Almost all successful start-ups have multiple founders, from the Central Pacific's Big 4 to Google's Sergei and Brin.

One thing to get right in your blog post: your examples.

diminish• 14 years ago

A better name would be "Four things that matter to a VC or investor", namely...The founding team, The core values, Where the company is located, The initial investors (and their terms). Plus find one mistake, hint: Google's founders.

markyc• 14 years ago

how about making sure you provide a solution to a real problem for which people are willing and able to pay?

AznHisoka• 14 years ago

Yep, article reeks of being written by a naive MBA with no real world experience.

Just build something people love and would pay for, and you can mess up the other stuff, and still succeed.

Four Things to Get Right When Starting a Company

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