Cinventure - For the Cincinnati Entrepreneur » Partnership http://www.cinventure.com Entrepreneurship and Small Business from a Cincinnati Perspective Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:51:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Insights for Startup Founders http://www.cinventure.com/insights-for-startup-founders http://www.cinventure.com/insights-for-startup-founders#comments Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:38:20 +0000 aaron http://www.cinventure.com/insights-for-startup-founders OnStartups.com provides us with this great list of 17 Pithy Insights for Startup Founders. The first five are listed below, make sure to visit the site and see the entire list:

  1. Seek transparency and understanding with your partners early. Issues get harder as time passes
  1. Startup founders work long hours for a reason. There’s more work than there are people. If you’re seeking balance, seek it elsewhere.
  1. Bad customers will drain you of passion. Really bad customers will drain you of both passion and profits. Unfortunately, most bad customers will degenerate into really bad customers if you don’t do something about it.
  1. If you’re changing directions too often, worry a little. If you’re changing people too often, worry a lot.
  1. It’s lonely at the top, but even lonelier at the bottom. In the early days of a startup, hardly anyone wants to talk to you (except some desperate vendors).

Read the full list of insights.

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