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5 Contrarian Ideas About Startups in 5 Minutes

Rand Fishkin, CEO & Founder | October 2013

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No Need to Take Notes:

http://bit.ly/stmrand5

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MVPs Kinda Suck

#1

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Great Ideas ≥ Great

Execution

#2

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Cross-Team Collaboration

The Idea Maze

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Don’t Hire “Rockstars”

#3

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Belief in the Mythical 10X Hire Hurts Your Team

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Find Flywheel Marketing

Channels as Fast as

Possible

#4

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Flywheels Get Easier to Turn Over Time

Whiteboard Friday video on flywheel marketing

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Don’t Make Management

the Only Way Up

#5

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My Blog (about startup-y stuff): http://moz.com/rand

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