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Before You Start, Define the Outcome

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Paul O'Brien
Mar 10, 2019
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How do you determine when your business is going to be successful?

When it meets your definition of success.

Many, I've found, start businesses thinking forward; the test and validate, customer feedback oriented development. I have a hypothesis or a business I want to start, what do I do first? That's generally actually bad idea because every business, ev…

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