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Dear Founder... Here's my letter to a 1st-time founder offering advice on how to avoid venture failure, excerpted from my book #WhyStartupsFail (via @StartupNation) startupnation.com/books/startups…
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Tom Eisenmann
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Tom Eisenmann
@teisenmann
Harvard Business School entrepreneurship professor; author of Why Startups Fail https://t.co/jIHEMnjDNT
Boston, Mass., USA Katılım Eylül 2008
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Great account of the different ways ChatGPT can be helpful in the early stages of launching a new venture from serial deep tech founder @natalyarockets natalyabailey.substack.com/p/how-im-using…
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Looking forward to interviewing @cdixon this morning. We'll discuss his brilliant new book on blockchain networks, Read Write Own.
Chris Dixon@cdixon
Looking forward to speaking and signing books at @HBSCryptoClub’s Blockchain Conference in Boston tomorrow. It'll be a fireside with professor @teisenmann, who taught me many of the lessons on building networks that I wrote about in Read Write Own. Hope to see you there!
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Thanks, @halletecco! Your post provides exactly the answers and advice about startup advisory roles that a faculty colleague just asked me for.
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In our third post on product leadership, @DeepNishar and I explore growth teams: how to organize them, and how they relate to the product function. deepnishar.com/article/managi…
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Here's the first of several posts on product management that I co-authored with @GeneralCatalyst's @DeepNishar. This one explores when a startup should hire their first product leader, and who they should hire deepnishar.com/article/hiring…
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Sharp insights here about reasons for product failure
Sean Jacobsohn@sjacobsohn
Check out my new blog: "4 Lessons from Famous Product Flops" lnkd.in/gBAuMS8m My hobby of collecting artifacts from failed companies and products can be seen at failure.museum. I feature over 200 items. @NorwestVP @ThomasTkalinske @MuseumFailure
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@skominers @BrianCAlbrecht Envelopment = dominant platform A entering B's market and offering an A+B bundle to challenge dominant platform B. By definition, both A and B are incumbents in their respective core businesses, but A is an entrant in B's market.
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@BrianCAlbrecht On a quick check I think it would be interpreted as an instance of platform envelopment -- in this case, the incumbent would the enveloping the entrant onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sm…
(@teisenmann am I describing this properly?)
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Apropos of nothing in particular:
A standard lesson in platform economics is that a dominant incumbent might find it highly valuable to show/embed competitors' offerings because that makes the incumbent a "one-stop shop," thus reinforcing its platform dominance.
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Intriguing post from @dunkhippo33 about whether the threat of @OpenAI cloning plug-in partners' offerings will create an opportunity for rival platforms
Elizabeth Yin 💛@dunkhippo33
New post: elizabethyin.com/2023/03/27/wha… Inspired by @packyM 's post this AM on @OpenAI:
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@bamaace123 email me at teisenmann at hbs dot edu and I'll send the note
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Of the scores of post-mortems by failed founders I've read, this one by @LillianCartie is the most thoughtful (HT @austinfish)
Lillian Cartwright@LillianCartie
I just shut down my first startup. Here's my retro: @lilliancartwright/i-just-shut-down-my-first-startup-heres-my-retro-7a8a529b4ee4" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@lilliancartwr…
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New essay on founder intuition and how that compares to team expertise as you hire new people, and how it compares to customer knowledge. Knowing the right times to lean on founder intuition vs. deferring to team expertise is critical to making the right decisions at a startup.
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@HBSAlumni Thanks, @HBSAlumni! There are no students in this photo. I'm briefing coaches -- faculty and alumni -- who'll field student team pitches. Pictured: @sunilnagaraj, @MitchWei, @Levitan, @gregmarsh, @econstanton, Shikhar Ghosh, et al.
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From this month in 2018: “Professor @teisenmann addresses students and alumni at the #HBS Startup Bootcamp. The bootcamp is an immersion program for first-year HBS MBA candidates that uses a learning-by-doing approach to build skills required as an early stage entrepreneur.”
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@sunilnagaraj @UbiquityVC @KeithCorso1 @HBSAlumni .@sunilnagaraj & @KeithCorso1 -- many thanks for sharing your "founder meets VC" story with our students!
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Sharp insights about AI's evolution from @emollick oneusefulthing.substack.com/p/ai-has-a-str…
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In his new newsletter, @emollick is synthesizing academic research on important topics in powerful ways. Here, he unpacks research on failure oneusefulthing.substack.com/p/when-the-cac…
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