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Hi, I'm Thanasis, passionate about entrepre neurship, web development and all things tech.
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Category Archives: Entrepreneurship
The Importance of Founders Staying Focused
The more this topic has been discussed the more founders i find making this grave mistake. As a founder of a company, you have one and only mission, to make your venture work. Everything else is noise… hackernews, funding, techcrunch, … Continue reading
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Funding, Lessons Learned, Rants, Startups
Tagged focus, founders, product market fit, startup life, startups
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The Seven Deadly Sins of a Startup
There are so many things that can kill your startup, from pure chance down to very specific mistakes. Through my course i have done all conceivable mistakes one could do. I have learned from this experience and after some pondering i have summarized my gravest fails down to seven major areas. These are the kind of fails that can single handedly bring down your efforts, i did them all and enjoyed them fully. Continue reading
Are You Building a Website or a Startup?
We have an idea, we discuss it with a few close friends and start working on it. We are building for months and when somebody asks us what we do, we fondly reply “I have a startup”. But do you?… There’s a hidden word after “Startup”, and that word is “Company”, doing a website and building a Company is like comparing apples with oranges. Continue reading
How To Startup In America
There is much frustration, confusion and disappointment about foreign entrepreneurs finding a legal way to start a company in the United States. For many this issue is considered so hard that freezes them from making the leap and venture in the US. In this post i will try to put things in perspective and shed some light on how to handle this issue. Continue reading
Posted in Enter Silicon Valley, Entrepreneurship, Startups
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How Lean Startup Forced Me To Leave My Country
Working in an isolated environment without any external interaction can be a really dangerous thing. I developed my product in such an environment believing i knew everything, creating the equivalent to a Vogon spaceship for my startup. When i realized how wrong i was, not talking to people about it, i went on the other side, over-extroverting, hitting a wall and deciding to leave my country. This is my lean startup story. Continue reading
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Self Improvement, Startups
Tagged lean startup, lean startup model, mistakes
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Enter Silicon Valley – Making The Leap
A month has passed since i started getting educated about options for growing my startup. I had formed a gross view of the startup world locally, in Europe and globally. Now i had to think about what would my next steps be. Continue reading
Posted in Enter Silicon Valley, Entrepreneurship, Startup Funding, Startups
Tagged decisions, funding, seed funding, startups, three F's
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How To Learn Anything Faster
It is a common trait for geeks to catch up with new stuff fast. A new programming language, a new technology, a social skill (!)… Whatever that maybe as long as they are interested in it, they get pretty good pretty quick, within months if not weeks. Observing that cool feature on myself i realized there are some principles that are common during this process. Continue reading
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Self Improvement
Tagged advice, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship
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Help Entrepreneurs, Be Challenging!
Having talked with quite a few people about my ideas and projects overtime i have noticed a common theme. Everybody tries to be gentle. That is ok but doen’t really help me move forward. What entrepreneurs really need is to … Continue reading
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Rants, Startups
Tagged entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship, ideas, mentoring, mentors
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Thanasis Polychronakis 