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Killing Startups Dead REASON NUMBER NINE

by Larry Chiang on October 1, 2015

By Larry Chiang

Startup die prematurely. They don’t have to. While I can’t save all startup’s. I can save the startups that read my blog. Bold, I know.

Let us start with reason number 9 and work our way down. I see this pattern repeat time and time again: “We are building a marketplace.”

Well, let us look at the bastion of best practices…

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10/1/15, 9:25 AM
The #StealEggs hack runs true and strong and patternistic in the Stanford startup community. #PRPRPI

In advanced parlance, you “cross the chasm from the right”

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2/11/15, 1:01 PM
It’s an engineer to engineer mentorship about entrepreneurship
#ch9
#stealEggs
#ENGR145‘s #PRPRPIcollaborativeconsumption.com/2013/10/25/ste…

Engineers execute “signature business protocols”. This Penn engineer wrote:
http://www.collaborativeconsumption.com/2013/10/25/steal-eggs-the-secret-to-scaling-a-marketplace

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11/8/14, 10:32 AM
marketplace? #stealEggs #PRPRPI collaborativeconsumption.com/2013/10/25/ste…

Download the Twitter app Re #stealEggs http://www.collaborativeconsumption.com/2013/10/25/steal-eggs-the-secret-to-scaling-a-marketplace/

ZN0VKUOa_normal.jpg Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang)
11/5/13, 9:38 PM
#stealEggs Re crunchbase vs people plus techcrunch.com/2013/11/05/cru…

If you’re a CS major founder and have a mayor trying to kill your marketplace…, execute #DeBlasioUBER

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