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The Start-Up J Curve

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The Start-Up J Curve

Six Steps to Entrepreneurial Success

Greenleaf Book Group Press,

15 ΠΌΠΈΠ½ Π½Π° Ρ‡Ρ‚Π΅Π½ΠΈΠ΅
10 основных ΠΈΠ΄Π΅ΠΉ
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Every start-up follows the same β€œJ Curve.” Start-up success is all about figuring out this path.

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More than 90% of start-ups change their initial business plans and many start-ups fail. Often, this happens because their owners don’t understand the start-up journey or its various phases. Entrepreneur Howard Love applies his 35 years of experience and numerous successful start-up runs to explaining the ups and downs and sometimes obscure rhythms of developing a successful business. With his grasp of crucial subtle details and his clear explication of the big picture, Love’s advice proves easy to follow, comprehensive and practical. getAbstract recommends his guidance to anyone considering a start-up and to entrepreneurs in their company’s early years.

Summary

Successful Start-Ups

More than 90% of start-ups have to change their initial business plans, even two or three times, before they succeed. Most new firms change their products just as often. This generally surprises new entrepreneurs, who often launch start-ups expecting to work with one plan and one product.

Every successful start-up goes through the six phases of the β€œStart-up J Curve.” The J-curve graphic depicts the stages of the hard work of building enterprise value: Picture a letter J: the challenging first four stages – β€œcreate, release, morph and model” – make up the β€œbase of the letter,” which is the challenging β€œvalley of death.” The β€œscale” and β€œharvest” stages represent the vertical portion of the letter, when a company begins to earn increasing profits. The realization of value follows in the later stages.

Entrepreneurs can draw three truths from the J Curve:

  1. Iterations count more than the original product concept.
  2. Customer feedback is worth more than customer sales.
  3. Flexibility is more valuable than the initial idea for the business.

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About the Author

Howard Love has founded or co-founded more than 15 companies and invested in more than 50 early-stage start-ups.

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