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We interviewed 30 entrepreneurs and investors on Founder FM and hand selected the best startup advice for you in this new presentation. You can also download the presentation FREE (links on slides 6 & 7)
(Asia Tech Podcast) Startup Advice from 30 Entrepreneurs and Investors
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Voice of the Entrepreneur www.FounderFM.com
3. Featuring the advice of 30 startup
entrepreneurs and investors interviewed
on Founder FM 2016
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with featured entrepreneurs & investors
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STARTUP SUCCESS
6. We’ve been taught
to go to school, get
a job, work hard and
you’ll be successful.
Unfortunately, that’s
not how it works.
- John Lee
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Entrepreneurship is a grind. It’s a war of
attrition - Julian Hearn
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As an entrepreneur, be willing to embrace change:
nothing is going to go to plan - Jason Zook
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If you really love doing something, the likelihood
you can turn it into a viable business is higher than
just finding a way to make money - Michael Waitze
14. How fast can you learn? How fast can you
fail? This approach to business applies as
much to a coffee shop as it does for a mobile
app - Tim Parsons
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If I look back in life and
haven’t tried, then I
felt like that would
always bug me. It
wasn’t even a choice. I
just had to do it. -
Jamal Benmiloud
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If you’re going to live a lifestyle where you
demand more… you can’t listen to the system
- Andrew Henderson
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I don’t necessarily know if it’s going to work,
but I believe that if I give this my all, I’m going
to learn a lot in the process - Troy Erstling
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Always maximize what life has to offer.
You should never die with regrets.
- Erik Ten Have
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Don’t wait for permission. Be bold. Take risks.
Trash conventional wisdom. Go out and make
your business happen -Shilpa Sharma
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Put in the time. Put in the effort.
Don’t expect to get results overnight
- Carlo Cretaro
23. You can’t go telling me I’m not in the
game. That kind of stuff doesn’t sit
well with me. - Tim Fargo
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DEVELOPING
YOUR IDEA
26. Stay humble, listen more, talk less
- Vipe Desai
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You don’t have to invent new ideas. If you see a
great idea and can copy it, expand on it… that’s
a great way to get started - Rick Day
28. Figure out what you’re good at. Figure out
what’s missing. Find people to help you -
Zack Tipton
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30. Nobody is
going to steal
your idea. The
more you
share, the
better it gets.
Keep on
validating and
refining -
Ashish Mittal
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Get started by thinking about what really bothers
you. Can you do something about it? If not, can
you work with people who can? - Nik Schriefer
32. Don’t ever give
up on sharing
your ideas with
your network.
You may come
up with 99 non-
starters, but the
100th idea might
be the one that
flies - Michael
Waitze
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BUILD YOUR
NETWORK
35. Success is about relationship capital. Show me
your friends and I’ll show you your bank account.
- John Lee
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36. Find a co-founder: Your chances of startup
success increase exponentially going from 1 to
2 or 3 co-founders - Bernard Moon
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The biggest
mistake CEOs
make is they
keep everything
in their head or
try to “lead by
example”. Great
when you have 6
or 8 people, but
not when you’re
60 or 80
- Rick Day
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You’ve got to listen to people, and learn
from people who’ve been there and done it.
Spend as much time as you can, expect this
is going to take a long time - Julian Hearn
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RAISING CAPITAL
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Plan for failure, hope for success
- Chris Kirkland
42. Dont’ wait
until you’re
ready. Don’t be
a perfectionist.
Start talking to
investors now -
Rina Neoh
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44. Perseverance and persistence are key to
raising capital. Do your groundwork and
research. Know what investors want from
you - Ye Myat Min
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45. It takes the same amount of time to raise 1
Euro as it does 1 billion Euros. Go for the
highest amount you need - Ali Parandeh
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46. Research your competition. If you tell an
investor you have no competition, you’re telling
them there’s no market for your product
- Dirk Lueth
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High quality content is the key to
growing traffic long term - Chris Kirkland
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Build offline human connections with the
customer, that’s key to customer acquisition -
Bond Thaiyanurak
55. Start before you
start: test your
message and
value proposition.
Build a blog, an
inbound strategy
generating leads
before you
launch - Tommaso
Di Bartolo
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57. The people who
win are not
necessarily the
those coming out
to market with the
best product first,
but the people
who are learning
the fastest
- Tim Parsons
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Take time to write down your values: How do
you want your customers and employees
treated? Once you have these you can hire
managers to hire great people - Rick Day
59. What people really pay for is the packaging and
convenience your expertise gives them. - Grant Weherley
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61. Don’t spend time trying to convert people.
Close that conversation and move on. Find the
people that do “get it”. - Hans Johansen
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62. People don’t buy the product, they buy
the story. It’s an emotional purchase.
- Zack Tipton
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People don’t follow
brands, they follow
people… Do we
really care that
much about Apple
as a brand or is
hearing Steve Jobs’
story more
inspiring?
- Anita Wing Lee
65. When somebody actually reaches out to you with
feedback, you might consider it ore you have to distill
down to the actual gold nugget that’s in there. Sometimes
the people really have an awesome point - Tim Fargo
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Niching down
is the key. It’s
much better to
be the main
guy in one
area than
trying to
attract all-
comers -
Stewart Patton
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Scroll through your inbox. These are the
people who trust you the most. They will be
your word of mouth marketing. - Jason Zook
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