{"id":50274,"date":"2014-04-04T14:30:46","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T12:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=50274"},"modified":"2014-04-04T14:30:46","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T12:30:46","slug":"kathryn-minshew-7-classic-startup-founder-mistakes-and-how-to-avoid-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=50274","title":{"rendered":"Kathryn Minshew: 7 Classic Startup Founder Mistakes (And How to Avoid Them)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/90762713\" width=\"922\" height=\"519\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Kathryn Minshew: 7 Classic Startup Founder Mistakes (And How to Avoid Them)\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Daily Muse co-founder and startup advisor Kathryn Minshew has started (and re-started) her share of startups and has the battle scars to prove it. In this 99U talk, Minshew shares the remedies to commonly made startup founder mistakes. Chief among them? The \u201cGollum Syndrome\u201d where founders treat their companies as \u201ctheir precious.\u201d Just launch and iterate, says Minshew, because \u201cAn ugly baby is better than no baby at all.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Muse co-founder and startup advisor Kathryn Minshew has started (and re-started) her share of startups and has the battle scars to prove it. In this 99U talk, Minshew shares the remedies to commonly made startup founder mistakes. Chief among them? 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