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Saved by 12 people (-3 private), first by anonymouse user on 2006-08-19
- Gamasutra on 2007-10-19 - Tags business , del.icio.us , imported , kiko , web2.0
- Jshare on 2006-10-18 - Tags failures , startup
- Danieljomphe on 2006-09-22 - Tags entrepreneurship , tips
- Morrita on 2006-09-18 - Tags business , imported:del.icio.us , reading , webapplication
- Fxc123 on 2006-08-28 - Tags no_tag
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Stay Focused. Most entrepreneurs have lots of ideas. Often times, many of them may be really good. I don’t know about you, but my favorite part about startups is talking about new products and new business ideas. If you’re a creative person, it’s very easy to get side-tracked on side ideas when you really should be working on your main one. This is bad. Bad, bad, bad. We did this a lot with Kiko, and it caused many delays in getting the product out the door.
Highlighted by bbebop
I just think we were too slow at times, and focused on the wrong thing at times.
Highlighted by bbebop
Hire Slow, Fire Fast. Picking the right people is life and death for your company. We hired two people for Kiko. One of them (Rich White, our interface designer) was awesome; everything I could have asked for and more: self motivated, entrepreneurial, competant, hard working, and very smart. However, one of our hires turned out to be a huge mistake: he basically spun his wheels, didn’t complete anything, and left for months at a time without word. Working with someone like this can easily make working on your company not very fun at all. If you have any reservations about someone at the outset, you should probably not hire them.
Highlighted by joel
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on 2006-08-19 by bbebop
on 2006-08-28 by fxc123