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| ====== How to start up a Startup ====== | ====== How to start up a Startup ====== | ||
| - | Most reporting of startups is all about the self-promotion of individuals (e.g. [[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06qtvzf/episodes/player|The Distrupters]]) and ignores [[wp>Survivorship Bias]]. This guide is all about what doesn't make the press, but is just as important. Or, on other words, never mind the luck, here is the science bit. | + | This is all about the practical details of getting a startup off the ground. It's a personal view based on experience, many things are easy when you've done them a few times but can catch you out first time. |
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| + | * It will be a rollercoaster, scary and exhilarating. "If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough." | ||
| * People are a pain, more people means more pain. You may think you are starting a tech company, you're not, it'll all be people management. The larger you are the harder it is to innovate, so get the foundations right before you scale the people. | * People are a pain, more people means more pain. You may think you are starting a tech company, you're not, it'll all be people management. The larger you are the harder it is to innovate, so get the foundations right before you scale the people. | ||
| * [[https://venturebeat.com/2011/03/15/reid-hoffman-10-rules-of-entrepreneurship|Reid Hoffman’s 10 rules of entrepreneurship]] | * [[https://venturebeat.com/2011/03/15/reid-hoffman-10-rules-of-entrepreneurship|Reid Hoffman’s 10 rules of entrepreneurship]] | ||