Failed Startup Profile: What Went Wrong and How to Avoid the Same Mistakes: A lesson from FreePrint

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What Went Wrong: How one entrepreneurial great idea couldn’t quite get off the  ground. . .
The Story of FreePrint, the Startup that ALMOST could.
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Start-up profile: Balsamiq

Speaking with Balsamiq CEO Giacomo ‘Peldi’ Guilizzoni about Start-ups and being an Entrepreneur
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Now, down to business.

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How to start an online company : your competitors

How to start an online company: on your competitors

Early competitor research pays huge dividends a few months after you’ve gotten started, so make the investment. You could just slap together a spreadsheet with the top 3 sites in your niche and list some boring things like features, members, prices et cetera, but then you could [...]

How to start an online company: coming up with a name

This is the fun part. Get your core team together, but be selective here – you don’t want to settle on a name by democratic vote; you don’t want a name that ‘everyone can be happy with’; you want the best name, period. You need to get the people who are creative but won’t bring [...]

How to start an online company: sizing your market

Determining the size of your market is one of the crucial tasks that is very easy to rush and get wrong – with serious consequences on your short/medium term plans.
This is one area where my MBA really helped me out by giving me some useful tools in advance. I’m not saying you need one (far [...]