I'm sure that everyone here is reading mountains of material stating "startups should be doing this!" and it's easy to get drowned in all of those TODOs and fail because we haven't placed our focus on the correct TODOs.<p>Are you able to summarize, into perhaps a (very) short paragraph for each of "If startups focus constantly on perfecting these things, they are almost ensured success" based upon your experience of startups?
Start with two or three founders who are determined, sufficiently smart, and work well together. Work on an idea that grows organically out of your own experience. Launch fast and iterate, using growth rate as a guide. Don't be dismayed when it turns out to be hard.
The first adjective that pg used was "determined". It's also essentially saying the same thing as his last sentence. I'm guessing that's not an accident.
I'm going to expand this blog post into a book: <a href="http://www.layeredthoughts.com/startups/12-rules-for-building-your-first-profitable-startup" rel="nofollow">http://www.layeredthoughts.com/startups/12-rules-for-buildin...</a><p>The goal is to create essentially a framework for startup ideas that can set you up for success in the best way possible.
I think the simplest recipe for success is set deadlines and meet them asap, the faster the start up meets deadlines the faster they grow and the faster they grow the faster they can succeed, booya
There is a very precise recipe necessary for success. These are the exact steps you need to take, pay special attention to the order because it's very important you follow it exactly.<p>1. Succeed<p>Unfortunately most funded, incubated, accelerated, bootstrapped, unfunded, unincubated, unaccelerated and other startups fail to follow these very simple instructions.