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Transcript

  1. @johnjpeebles The Greatest Lies The Devil Ever Told Startups Turing

    Fest 2017

  2. @johnjpeebles

  3. @johnjpeebles December 2015

  4. @johnjpeebles

  5. @johnjpeebles Training Management Solution

  6. @johnjpeebles

  7. @johnjpeebles The Greatest Lies The Devil Ever Told Startups

  8. @johnjpeebles You Should Listen to All Kinds of Startup Advice.

    Particularly at Tech Conferences.

  9. @johnjpeebles This is my 5th startup. I’ve made all of

    these mistakes. Some multiple times. Prolly making a few of them right now.

  10. @johnjpeebles You Are a Snowflake

  11. @johnjpeebles This Won’t Be That Hard

  12. @johnjpeebles It’s Cool to Start a Startup

  13. @johnjpeebles Your Friends and Family Will Understand

  14. @johnjpeebles You’ll Make Lots of Money

  15. @johnjpeebles Your Company is More Important Than You. At Least

    Right Now.

  16. @johnjpeebles This Won’t Take Long

  17. @johnjpeebles Your First Startup Will Be The One

  18. @johnjpeebles Technology Choices Are What Kill Most Tech Startups

  19. @johnjpeebles You Don’t Need a Community. Just Focus On Your

    Company.

  20. @johnjpeebles Don’t Worry About Matching Your Funding Strategy to Your

    Business

  21. @johnjpeebles You Can Wait On Sales. Prolly Don’t Even Need

    It.

  22. @johnjpeebles Your Product is the Most Important Thing

  23. @johnjpeebles Don’t Worry About the People Stuff

  24. @johnjpeebles Other Startups Are Killing It. All The Time.

  25. @johnjpeebles You Need to Be in Silicon Valley

  26. @johnjpeebles Your Investors Aren’t Part of Your Team

  27. @johnjpeebles Stay Away from B2B. It’s Boring.

  28. @johnjpeebles Don’t Worry About Your Metrics

  29. @johnjpeebles Don’t Worry About the Quadrant of Doom Image (mostly)

    courtesy of Intercom

  30. @johnjpeebles You’re Finished If You Don’t Succeed

  31. @johnjpeebles This Too Shall Pass

  32. @johnjpeebles John Peebles [email protected]