Four Things to Get Right When Starting a Company

Four Things to Get Right When Starting a Company(blogs.hbr.org)

8 points by hellacious 14 years ago | 4 comments

dmbaggett 14 years ago |

Almost all successful start-ups have multiple founders, from the Central Pacific's Big 4 to Google's Sergei and Brin.

One thing to get right in your blog post: your examples.

diminish 14 years ago |

A better name would be "Four things that matter to a VC or investor", namely...The founding team, The core values, Where the company is located, The initial investors (and their terms). Plus find one mistake, hint: Google's founders.

markyc 14 years ago |

how about making sure you provide a solution to a real problem for which people are willing and able to pay?

AznHisoka 14 years ago | |

Yep, article reeks of being written by a naive MBA with no real world experience.

Just build something people love and would pay for, and you can mess up the other stuff, and still succeed.