5 Contrarian Ideas About Startups in 5 Minutes

Rand Fishkin, CEO & Founder | October 2013

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MVPs Kinda Suck

#1

Great Ideas ≥ Great

Execution

#2

Cross-Team Collaboration

The Idea Maze

Don’t Hire “Rockstars”

#3

Belief in the Mythical 10X Hire Hurts Your Team

Find Flywheel Marketing

Channels as Fast as

Possible

#4

Flywheels Get Easier to Turn Over Time

Whiteboard Friday video on flywheel marketing

Don’t Make Management

the Only Way Up

#5

If Management is the Only Way Up, We’re All F’d

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