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<h1 style="text-align: center;">SUMMARY - 10 hard lessons I learned from starting precog</h1>
<h2>[WHAT]</h2>
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<li>]&nbsp;By John De Goes @ stackstreet.com - John provides strategy tips for your startup based upon what ultimately didn't work for his previous startup, precog, which was aquired by RichRelevance in 2013</li>
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<h2>[WHY]</h2>
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<li>] go deep not broad</li>
<li>] be non disruptively disruptive</li>
<li>] keep your game plan unfundable</li>
<li>] choose a right sized problem</li>
<li>] deep domain knowledge is your&nbsp;most powerful&nbsp;asset</li>
<li>] be responsive but stay focused</li>
<li>] choose investors carefully</li>
<li>]&nbsp;dont create a burnout culture</li>
<li>] no one really knows anything</li>
<li>] dont let failure destroy you</li>
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<h2>[WHERE]</h2>
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<li>] <a href="http://stackstreet.com/10-hard-lessons-learned-starting-precog/" target="_blank">http://stackstreet.com/10-hard-lessons-learned-starting-precog/</a></li>
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<h2>[WHEN]</h2>
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<li>] 2014-11-18</li>
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<h2>[EXAMPLE]</h2>
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<li>]</li>
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<h2>[HOW-TO]</h2>
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<li>]</li>
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<h2>[REFERENCE]</h2>
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<li>] SRC = hn, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8626726" target="_blank">comments</a></li>
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<p><strong>user/brandonb</strong></p>
<p>A template that I love is the one from Crossing the Chasm:</p>
<p>For [Target Customer] who has [Problem], our product is a [New Product Category] that provides [Key Benefit]. Unlike [Competitor], we have [Key Point of Differentiation].</p>
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