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8 stages every Startup goes through and how to survive them
One of the greatest fears that people have to face when starting a new business is the statistics on failure. Knowing that 90% of all companies fail, and the 30% of US companies will fail in the first three years and 75% of Mexican companies in the first two years, isn’t exactly encouraging when you’re thinking about starting a company. But it’s not about being optimistic or pessimistic, it’s about being realistic.
Paul Graham, founder of YCombinator, developed “The Start Up Curve,” a process that absolutely all Startups and new businesses go through. If you want to start a business and not end up being part of the statistics, knowing and understanding these steps is a must.
1. Day Dream. It all starts with that million-dollar idea. Your initial enthusiasm gives you the fuel you need to get started and dream about putting your product in everyone’s hands. You come up with an initial concept for the characteristics of your product and the reasons why everyone is going to to buy it from you, and then, you build it. You’re literally in the clouds.
2. Ugly Truth. The big moment has arrived! You launch your product and… your mom is the only person who likes what you’ve made. That’s reality slapping you in the face. Not only does no one buy you product, no one is even interested in it. Suddenly, the clouds part and you’re in a free fall. If you didn’t validate before building the product, the fall will be higher and harder.
3. Depression. After the fall comes depression. Everything you dreamed of, and the million-dollar idea you had, have left you with nothing but dept and doubts about why it didn’t work. Most companies will give up at this stage and fail, because they don’t do anything new or different.
4. Test Lab. The remaining businesses will pivot and test based on market research. They will get close to their costumers and get to know them better and will develop a product that is based on their research findings.
5. Deep Hole. So, you relaunched your product after implementing the improvements recommended by your costumers, and just when you thought that you couldn’t sink any lower, you do. It seems like all your efforts and investments were thrown away on a pipe dream, and this is when even more companies call it quits.
6. False Hope. The companies that keep fighting for their dream, and continue making efforts, improvements, and changes needed to achieve it, will start to see a glimmer of hope, just before taking another dive. More changes, more pitfalls. You go up and down, like a roller-coaster ride.
7. Product Market Fit. The promise land! All of the pivoting has given you the Product Market Fit, which basically means that you have let your costumers mold your product to their exact needs. Remember that kids’ game where you have to put different shaped objects into the corresponding holes? Your product was a square peg that you were trying to fit in a round hole, and its edges needed to be rounded off in order for it to fit.
8. GLORY! You have built the perfect product for your costumers. Now it’s time to scale up your business and take your product to potential costumers around the world. At this point, you can start designing your marketing and expansion plan. If you had done this earlier, you would only have been wasting resources, since you didn’t have the Product Market Fit, and no one would have bought it.
All successful companies and Startups have gone through these eight stages. Time is not a factor. Everything depends on finding the Product Market Fit. it takes some companies days; others, years. Check out the 10 steps to launching a strong product so that you can get through these stages as quickly as possible.
Statistics are made up of those who fail and give up.
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The launch image is the piece of graphic that is briefly displayed on a cold launch of an app. The recommended approach is to display a placeholder image with things like the navigation and tab bar, but without any seemingly tapable icons. This primes the user for what’s coming next.
iOS 7 added...
As I approach my final days at PlayHaven, I’ve spent a bit of time reflecting on the mistakes I’ve made and lessons learned since joining the startup three years ago. I’m incredibly fortunate to have been a part of the journey. via Pocket
What a #bigco CEO, in a startup once said
Lots of #bigco CEOs don't speak like human beings.
They wrap every sentence so that it either sounds more compelling, or less problematic - just like politicians do!
This is a real life story.
"The market is under pressure, and changing rapidly. Our initial strategy of targeting small and mid-sized companies are no longer of interest to us. We want the big fish, that has lots of clients that they can move onto our product."
"We're in talks with the X largest Y in the world. When this deal completes, there's no limit to what that means to us, or what we can do."
"Our change in strategy has lead us to introductions with several "big fish" in the market, and we should begin to see the fruits of our work very soon."
"This is a multi billion dollar industry, and according to Gartner it will only get bigger and bigger. If we could just get a 5% market share, we'll be more than good."
"The deal with X collapsed, but this is actually good. They would be no good to us anyway, since the original proposal were aggressively discounted and wouldn't improve our bottom line."
"Good news is our pipeline is very interesting, and we have a new prospect and we're wrapping up the details in the near future."
"Customer Y quit, but their account were overly discounted so it doesn't matter"
"We're improving our resource allocation to shorten time to market. Fixing bugs is no longer a priority."
"Turned out the new prospect were not that interesting either, since they were only planning to use feature Z."
"We're now 12 months into our change of strategy, and it's obvious to see that selling to large corporations takes a lot of time. The market is under pressure, and they're hesitating bringing all of their clients into our product."
"I'm not technically gifted, but you just have to make sure that when Coca Cola wants to play along, we can handle the pressure!"
"The new budget is based on a zero cancellation rate." - I'm not kidding!
"Our product is to complex for offering free trials."
"The market has forced us to change strategy. Now we're targeting both large corporations and small to mid-sized businesses."
I blog a bit and as a result, people share my writing on Twitter. I use Tweetdeck to surface these mentions, creating custom columns to search for tweets that contain “ryanhoover.me” or URL’s to guest posts I’ve written on PandoDaily, for example.
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Broadly speaking, a startup goes three phases of growing. 1. Traction 2. Transition 3. Growth The goals, metrics, channels, focus, team structure, everything evolves and changes as you move through these three phases. Knowing where you are in this path helps you understand what you...
The problems people encounter in their lives rarely change from generation to generation. The products they hire to solve these problems change all the time. via Pocket
Paul Graham interview from 2005.
Paul talks in great details about hackers, the definition of hackers and what drives us.
This talk was given by Steve Jobs on June 15th, 1983 at the International Design Conference in Aspen (IDCA). Digitized by Marcel Brown. http://lif...
This shows the vision of Steve Jobs. Hence this was from 1983, and he still talks about the internet, free trials, freemium, app store like concepts etc.
I get that start-ups don't want to limit their market w/ app for *advanced* users, but too few seem willing to help users *become* advanced.
— Seriouspony (@seriouspony) September 17, 2013
Interesting thought for evolving a product and its users. A win-win situation for both startup and user. The startup only need to cover the basics at the beginning (MVP), and the users has a change to jump on the train before it gets super advanced.

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Make Yourself Heard -- Stay Relevant, Show Who You Are
This has something to do with your job, or the chances of you getting a job.
As more and more companies hire for cultural fit instead of skills, to sell yourself is less and less about the actual job interview.
Every tech startup asks for an active GitHub profile.
So what can you say to trump the other candidates that are very active?
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StackExchange say they hire opinionated people, because they figure out what to do based on what they care about.
But how will you show you're an opinionated person if a Google search for your name only returns your Facebook profile?
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37signals says "hire the best writer".
But if you show up without any content out there, how can you possibly prove yourself as the best writer?
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You know you have opinions, you just don't believe they're worth sharing, when they truly are.
Just hit publish!
Envision, create and believe in your own universe, and the universe will form around you.
Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh, CEO, Zappos