John Peebles – The Greatest Lies the Devil Ever Told to Startups (Turing Fest 2017)

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1. @johnjpeebles The Greatest Lies The Devil Ever Told Startups Turing Fest 2017
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3. @johnjpeebles December 2015
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5. @johnjpeebles Training Management Solution
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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 jjp@getadministrate.com