Four Things to Get Right When Starting a Company (opens in new tab)

(blogs.hbr.org)

8 pointshellacious13y ago4 comments

4 comments

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.

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.

markyc13y ago

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

AznHisoka13y 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.

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