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It's why investors put so much weight on the team. Execution is 90%. We've all heard this endless times. But it really hits you in the face when you actually do a startup. A team that can't execute will probably f*ck up a great idea, whereas a team that can execute can do wonders with a mediocre idea

Great article. Super important everyone knows these services. Steve Blank also has a TON of great free resources on his blog: http://steveblank.com/tools-and-blogs-for-entrepreneurs/

Couldn't agree with you more. And I think the effervescence of the Silicon Valley tech scene creates tons of events, roles and initiatives that are a complete waste of time (For example: some meetups, happy hours and incubators of incubators of incubators). The value is created by making and selling things!

I agree. It also ignores the high switching cost with Dropbox. These companies just get more critique because of how prominent they are. Companies f* up all the time. You don't lose all your customers after one f* up.

Salary should be low enough for the founder to feel like he needs to hustle, but not so low that he is desperate. His mental energy should be focussed on the business, not on whether he will have enough money to pay rent and eat this week.

This platform could be ridiculously valuable. Metrics are clearly pivotal to any startup, but it's often very hard to know how you stack up vs. the competition. Congrats Bjoern and team.

This is why it is crazy to me when Product Managers (and CEOs at small companies) don't know how to code. If you don't understand what a developer is doing, you really can't know if your feature request should take 2 hours or 2 months. And there is no way in hell for you to judge their output or how hard they are working. This information asymmetry can be super damaging to a company's progress.

Amazing. These screenshots really take me back...