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9 lessons from products that went to market too soon

Apr05
by on April 5, 2015 at 8:03 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Insider, Profiles and Interviews, startup, YEC, yec.co, Young Entrepreneur Council

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Pushing your product to market is about more than just making sure you’re ready. It’s about ensuring the market is ready, too. As a company, you have to hit that sweet spot, along with multiple other factors you may not have even considered. Lucky for us — though not for them — there are some examples of products that went to market too soon that we can learn from. Rather than risk repeating these mistakes, I asked 10 entrepreneurs from YEC the following question: What’s one good example of a technology product going to market too soon, and what can entrepreneurs learn…

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How Brazilian startup program SEED lost track, and why it matters

Apr05
by on April 5, 2015 at 5:15 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Insider, Investigations, Latin America

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There has been a huge uproar this week in Brazil’s startup scene around the fate of SEED, whose name stands for ‘Startups and Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Development.’ Once one of the country’s leading acceleration programs, it saw its co-working space abruptly shut down a few days ago. SEED was a publicly financed initiative launched in 2013 by the state of Minas Gerais in its capital city of Belo Horizonte (familiarly known as BH). While it quickly earned praised from the startup world, it appeared under threat since Brazil’s general election last October, which brought a new state government. Although officials still insist that…

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Better Call Lowell: Ted Cruz, Disney World and Net Neutrality

Apr05
by on April 5, 2015 at 2:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Opinion, Pep Rosenfeld

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Pep Rosenfeld is co-founder of comedy theater Boom Chicago and Boom Chicago Creative in Amsterdam. He loves both nerd chic and chic nerds, and can be seen hosting events where they meet — like #TNW2015. Ted Cruz’s announcement that he’s running for President included an imaginary reference to his take on Net Neutrality. It reminded me, naturally, of my recent trip to Disney World. Because while waiting in the long, long line for Thunder Mountain, it’s hard not to hate the guys with VIP tickets who glide right to the front. But the “wildest ride in the west” is not the most important ride in 2015. That’s internet…

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Your first choice is rarely the optimal choice: 5 lessons on being wrong

Apr05
by on April 5, 2015 at 10:00 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Entrepreneur, LifeHacks

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James Clear writes about using behavioral science to master your habits and improve your health. His free guide, Transform Your Habits, has been downloaded more than 80,000 times. This post originally appeared on his blog. As a rule, we are incredibly hard on ourselves when it comes to making big decisions in life. If our first five relationships end with a break up, we think we’re destined to be alone forever. If we go to school, get a degree, and spend years training for a job that we end up hating, we feel like a failure for not having it all figured out. If…

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