11 Rules Successful Startups Should Follow #blindpost

This is a #blindpost on the Techcrunch article, “10 Rules Successful Startups Should Follow.” Per the #blindpost rules, I took the headline and wrote my interpretation of it, without reading the article itself. And I added one more for good measure ;)

11 Rules Successful Startups Should Follow

1. Know your customer. And learn your customer market fit.

2. Get a firm handle on your runway. Become obsessed with it.

3. Find mentor(s). Consider a resource like Advice For Good to get the ball rolling.

4. Embrace the fact that the journey you’re on will change. A lot. It’s great (and necessary) to have a vision at the beginning, but it will change. Get on board with that.

5. Focus, focus, and then focus some more.

6. Keeping honing your product/offering. Find the core of the idea and let that play out. Don’t over-build.

7. Forget your personal strengths. In a startup, you have to wear many hats, whether you’re the CEO or an early employee. It’s an all-hands-on-deck kinda think. And then, once you grow…

8. Remember your strengths. One of the hardest things for startup leaders to do is get comfortable delegating when the company grows. The ability to delegate is a key leadership quality in successful startup CEO’s.

9. Be great listeners. Listen to your employees, your customers, and your advisors/investors.

10. Become incredible at time management. Startups that manage their time well, and that have leaders that manage their time well, are going to be much more efficient and focused.

11. Execute your brains out.

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