Very Startup Many Fail

A talk at Stony Brook on 2/6/14, about how startups fail. Lacks quite a lot without the actual talk, but it's enough for now.

Transcript

1. Joe Fabisevich Stony Brook graduate, startup monkey ! ! ! @mergesort
3. I have this idea But I can't tell you, you might steal it
4. Not knowing your market
5. Competition
6. Not operating like a startup
7. Lacking heart
8. Crunch mode 0 20 40 60 80 October November December January
9. No Marketing
10. First time founder Shit happens
11. Running out of money
12. Do Projects and SHIP Try lots of things Find a specialty Meet likeminded people Talk to people
13. Be loose with your ideas, but be strict with your ideals.
14. If you can't stand hearing me go on for this long, I'm much shorter on Twitter. @mergesort ! A little longer on Tumblr runtimeintrospection.tumblr.com ! I also send lots of e's via mail joe@fabisevi.ch ! And ask lots of questions now.
15. And one last thing I'd like to show you