Why now is the best time to start a startup? Transformatoinal changes in technology, politics, economy, environmental make it condusive to build a startup. Yes, it's plenty of risks you have to take, it's a risk worth pursuing.

1. Have Yourself AHappy LittleStartup

2. 2008 Yes, it has been a stressfulyear 2009

3. Global Financial Meltdowns

4. 10.2 % US unemployment rate

5. Likely jobs won’t be back in their original form

6. Is Here To Stay A New Spending Habit

7. For those who keep the job so much is expected from you

8. Should we just sitand watch? Hoping for things to get better?

9. Cheer up! Still many reasons to celebrate!

10. Start Me Up

11. is incredibly low Better Tools Open Source Start up Cost Outsource Community

12. virtually unlimited market

13. Competing with bigguys? don’t worry you have theequalizers

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15. Don’t have a big marketingbudget?

16. The Game has changed Less Ads Social Media SEO Low or no cost distribution

17. Only the Einsteinsneed to apply?

18. No! More than anything else, it needs Tenacity Persistent Tireless Resilient

19. All these mean, we’re in equal footing, right?

20. Merci Any body in the world without access to large capital, can start and compete

21. Well, not quite

22. When you are this small no one caresabout your startup partnership customers journalists investors suppliers

23. this is your tiny loud speaker Internet is such anoisyplace

24. How do you stand above the crowd?

25. 5 strategiesto increase your chance of success

26. 1 Start small don’t burn yourself

27. Control your cost Cheap is your badge of honor Don’t start hiring people yet Don’trent office Don’t build datacenter

28. Your idea is just a hypothesis Very likely to change

29. Now Talk about your ideas, Not your products, Linked-in Group Spread the words Blog Facebook Fan Page Twitter

30. Run through ideas to your target audiences A set of screenshots will do

31. When you have good traction onthe community and your target customers are excited You strike gold

32. 2 Offer 10x better User experience, features, services Wowyour customers

33. Pick one thing that your product will do very, very, very well Remember you’re small don’t try to do many things

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41. 3 Catch the Wave Jump early while it’s forming

42. Your advantage: Agility

43. Put your bet on emerging, transformational trend jump early! Cloud Computing Social Computing Green Inbound Marketing Globalization Mobile Apps Health Care [Twitter, Facebook, Appstore]

44. Ride the wave, hope for a little push Press Bloggers Tweets Recommendation

45. 4 Avoid these pitfalls

46. Do not build a new community ..is a lot harder than you think They have won the battles

47. Do not create a new market unless your product is unbelievably innovative Less competitors could also mean the market is too small

48. Do not obsess with your competitors They’re likely as clueless than you are (even more)

49. Do not make advertisingas your primary source of revenue unless you’re sure that you’ll be the top 5 sites in your product category OR you’re serving an exclusive market

50. Do not use viral as your primary strategy More and more people are immune to the viral strategies

51. IdeasEvolve Don’t search for perfect ideas, it’s very likely your ideas evolve along the way

52. Do not build many featuresin your first release Acquire additional features after extensive observations Twitter executes this approach very well

53. 5 Great Solutions Sell Ideas won’t

54. Hungry? This is a Simple Solution

55. “Just Cool” only gets you traffic users won’t stick around

56. Before you put serious efforts >40% Good Test of my customers will get upset if the product/service is discontinued Source: Sean Ellis, Startup Marketing

57. Yes, it’s crazy to start astartup

58. High Risk

59. Friends, family, investors, press, competitors will be laughing at your little startups

60. Most people think that you may have genetic defect to start this crazy journey

61. Life is short But… Dare to Be Different

62. HappyHolidays From your crazyfriends at

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