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How to refine intuitive ideas by learning from failure?

"Figuring out how to show that your problem is wrong, is in essence how you work your way through innovating." (Dr. Luis Perez-Breva, 2017)

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[Part 1] How can learning from business failures help us compete creatively?

"Even negative results provide us a chance to apply correctives, and in that way, help us improve our future behaviour." (Prof. Dietrich Dörner, 1989)

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How learning from business failures can help us innovate better?

Learn the UVP/USP of others' to inspire your own UVP/USP design.

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Startup VC Funding Metrics & Benchmarks

“If you come in with a theory, and a plan and no data, and you’re 1 of the next 1000, it’s going to be far far harder to raise money. You’re almost always better off making your business better than your pitch better.” (Marc Andreessen, General Partner of a16z)

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How to validate your intuitive business idea with GV's Research Sprint?

"Companies can succeed in great markets even with mediocre teams but great teams will always lose to a bad market." (Andy Rachleff)

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Curated readings for June 2020

I'm regularly reading to improve my learning, and I'm sharing what I find useful with you to grow together.

Startup

In startupland, less is "the new more"

Living in a fast-paced world, it’s easy to slip into the habit of doing more, having more, giving more, and most of the time, too much.

Fundraising

First-time founders, read this before you raise money from VCs

This guide is intended for founders who plan to raise their first round with "institutional" VCs (a.k.a VC firms and not business angels) which is, most of the times, a Seed or Series A round.

Failure

Dear children, my heart is laden as I write this to you.

"We are all failures. At least, all the best of us are." (Sir James Matthew Barrie)

Failure

Everyone fails. So how do you overcome your fear of failure?

You are not alone. Everyone fails. It is simply the way of life.

Startup

You’ve got an idea. But how do you validate a market for your product?

Have you ever been told, 'ideas are cheap, execution is everything'? I am pretty sure that most of us must have heard of this saying.

Failure

Scientific progress is built on failure — and so is entrepreneurship

While we all plan and strive to achieve success, we remain an open mind and heart towards embracing failure.