Katie's talk on 10 mistakes that startups should avoid...
Great talk, very professional looking slides. It's great to see that other startups are thinking this way:
- Don't get office space - Adaptavist buy in to this idea already, we all work from home. The closest thing we have to an office is our hosting facility in Manchester, but being filled wall to wall with servers it's not a great place to hold meetings LOL.
- Don't focus on local - Adaptavist's first customer was in Canada and we've now got customers in 55+ countries.
- Don't waste time on protecting the unprotectable - At Adaptavist, we focus on keeping the good people good and don't waste time on bad people. If someone wants to hack our software, they're going to do it anyway no matter what we try. Then again, we give free licenses for personal and non-profit use anyway so there's little incentive to hack.
- Never give up - When we started out we had a mantra "Nothing's impossible until you give up, and we never give up"
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