Winding Down.

• The GridRival story, start to finishSoon

• Why product-market fit forgives every other mistakeSoon
• When your passion makes for a bad startup ideaSoon
• Milestones without revenue/growth don't countSoon
• People promise they'll pay when you're live. Why you shouldn't count on it.
• Knowing your industry isn't building for itSoon
• How paid ads alone will bury youSoon

• Co-founders: best decision or worst nightmare?Soon
• The wrong technical co-founder kills companiesSoon
• Co-founder incentives and structuringSoon
• Why we retain people we know we shouldn'tSoon
• How the VC path can force bad hiring decisionsSoon
• No hiring process guarantees bad hires. Your "gut" is a bad judge.Soon
• How democracy creates a terrible startup cultureSoon
• Startups don't need processes yetSoon
• Big-name advisors are rarely worth itSoon

• The number one term sheet mistake
• The reasons you want to raise are likely wrongSoon
• Bootstrap or raise: how to decideSoon
• What venture capital actually costs youSoon
• Why the raise is really a countdownSoon
• Why you should set up your board before raisingSoon
• Raising in a boom is statistically a curseSoon
• The biggest time-wasters when raising moneySoon
• The #1 way to save face with investors when things go wrongSoon

• What shutting down actually costsSoon
• How you tell investors it's overSoon
• The people you can't paySoon
• You're on your own: bankers won't touch a dying startupSoon

• Loving your subject cuts both waysSoon
• How you know when it's timeSoon
• The burnout nobody posts aboutSoon
• Who are you without the company?Soon

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