Why Having a Great Product Doesn’t Guarantee Startup Success:
Having an awesome product isn't enough for startup success. 80% of startups fail in the first 18 months due to poor market fit, marketing, or customer engagement. For example, An American
Zepto is a celebrated startup with such young founders. But their is a dark side to it.
Their parents hold more stake and they helped to get investments because their dads were bigger investors as well. There was 3rd founder who got fired.
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Nokia's first product was Toilet Paper
LG's first product was Facial Cream
Wipro first product was Vegetable Oil
IKEA's first product was a Pen
Samsung started its business by a Grocery Store
So it's not that your first product is your last produc
Timing > Execution > Idea
The idea is shit and has no value but its execution does. Moreover Timing is much more important.
Take an Example of YouTube; While the internet was booming the idea of starting a video streaming platform ( It was pivoted
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Ayush Maurya
Stealth • 23d
What was your record fastest time to build and ship a product and that was working perfectly ?
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Rahul Meena
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Creating a mall software where shopkeepers can open their shop and sell their product directly, even customers can buy their product by their nearest shop and they can get tgeir product with in 24 hours how is this idea?
Blunder or Masterstroke? - Zomato's acquisition of Paytm's entertainment and ticketing business for Rs 2,048 crore
When Zomato bought Blinkit, everyone was of the opinion that it was a mistake, but it turned out to be a masterstroke. But, is the Pay
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Chamarti Sreekar
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In 2014, Microsoft was imploding.
Their $7.2B Nokia purchase was a disaster. Windows 8 was failing. Their culture was toxic.
Until they hired ONE man who would transform Microsoft into a $3 TRILLION empire...
He is Satya Nadella