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1. Live your passion.
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Live your brand.
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2. Decide your scope
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3. Create product, not feature
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4. Where’s the disruption?
Solve my problem. Don’t pitch your solution.
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5. Get your customer laid, paid & made.
Great products & companies do 1+ of 3 things:1) Get you laid (= sex)2) Get you paid (=money)3) Get you made (=power)
Quote from Dave McClure.
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6. Find your minimal viable product
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7. Borrow and buy, don’t reinvent.
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8. Create the WOW factor
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9. Law of sustainable growth
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How do you make your product self growing?
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10. Create contacts before you need them
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11. Undercut the competition
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Half the price. Twice the experience.
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12. Sunk cost fallacy
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Don’t throw good money after bad.Know when to stop.
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