How to Pick Your Startup's First Customer

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Today is part 2 of our series helping you build an internal operating system. We identify the four things you'll need to have happen for your startup to gain momentum, then we organize those into a system that'll help you move fast based on inertia. Tacklebox Monkeys and Shakespe ...  Show more

You've built a product, but how do you take it to market? And who even wants it? To answer that, we've set up a unique call between an entrepreneur and an expert. Birna Dröfn Birgisdóttir built a brainstorming tool called Bulby, and is now ready to take it to market — but isn't s ...  Show more

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You’re ready to start an independent business, but deciding what kind can be incredibly tough! Today’s listener Q&A brings us the first question every entrepren ...

People overthink their businesses - who they hire, how they market and what they spend their money on.

If you're a start-up, I firmly believe you can make real noise with a small, scrappy team of three or four people. You just have to know what you ...

“Ideas are cheap; the people are what matter.” Startups face a lot of risk. But research suggests that 65% of startups fail because of one particular problem: people. Ricky Mulvey caught up with Martin Gonzalez, creator of Google’s Effective Founders Project, to discuss what publ ...  Show more