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Don’t have a product or an idea.

The most important thing in startups is:

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Scott D. Clary
Mar 10, 2021
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The most important thing in startups is:

Not to have an idea & not to have a product.

But to have both.

It seems obvious… but it isn’t.

Everyone has ideas & everyone has products.

Ideas are cheap.

Products are (almost) as cheap.

But for everyone to understand what a good idea is and a good product is, and to stay with it and actually see success.

Some ‘behind t…

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