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Normal people expect to be recognized for what they do. Entrepreneurs make their own recognition and create their own reality.

— Steve Blank

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A startup is a temporary organization in search of a scalable, repeatable, profitable business model.

The Startup Owner’s Manual (2012)

Confusing testosterone with strategy is a bad idea.

Market type influences everything a company does.

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The best startups discover a situation where customers have tried to build a solution themselves.

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In a startup, founders define the product vision and then use customer discovery to find customers and a market for that vision.

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