Tweetstorm coming in on major lessons learned from guest speakers & pitches at @Jason's startup festival #launchsydney

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Startups are an endless war. As the company grows, the battle fronts change but the war never ends.
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Founders overestimate what they can do alone. You can win a game alone, but to win the championship you need a team.
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You have to be able to put yourself below people. Don't be the ego in the room, that just sets people up to oppose you.
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'Cash rules everything around me.' Put your cash flow statement on your homepage.
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In a presentation, own every second. Fast, concise, confident. When you have this force, and it feels like you're taking it somewhere, people will let you say your piece.
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Replying to @JessTelford @ceteio
Hey Jess I wasn't sold on Jason's acquisition strategy but agreed with the judges on everything else. Would have liked more on what you will do differently. Can't remember if you had a video preview of the platform, but they tended to go down well (when they worked)
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Thanks for the feedback! We've tackled the differentiation and acquisition problems by first building tools to supplement the incumbent's platforms, build a user base there, then work to replace the core functionality of the incumbents as a phase 2. Had to cut
for time
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90 seconds is brutal. That sounds like a good strategy.

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It was even more brutal than that: 60s, and previous pitches had been cut off before then for immediate feedback
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