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The	Greatest	Lies	The	
Devil Ever	Told	Startups
Turing	Fest	2017
@johnjpeebles
@johnjpeebles
December	2015
@johnjpeebles
@johnjpeebles
Training	Management	Solution
@johnjpeebles
@johnjpeebles
The	Greatest	Lies	The	
Devil Ever	Told	Startups
@johnjpeebles
You	Should	Listen	to	All	Kinds	of	
Startup Advice. Particularly	at	
Tech	Conferences.
@johnjpeebles
This	is	my	5th startup.	I’ve	made	
all	of	these	mistakes.		Some	
multiple	times.	Prolly making	a	
few	of	them	right	now.
@johnjpeebles
You Are	a	Snowflake
@johnjpeebles
This	Won’t	Be	That	Hard
@johnjpeebles
It’s	Cool	to	Start	a Startup
@johnjpeebles
Your	Friends and	Family	
Will	Understand
@johnjpeebles
You’ll	Make	Lots	of	Money
@johnjpeebles
Your	Company is More	
Important	Than	You.	
At	Least	Right	Now.
@johnjpeebles
This	Won’t	Take	Long
@johnjpeebles
Your	First	Startup Will	Be	
The	One
@johnjpeebles
Technology	Choices	Are	
What	Kill	Most	Tech	Startups
@johnjpeebles
You	Don’t	Need	a	
Community. Just	Focus	
On	Your	Company.
@johnjpeebles
Don’t	Worry	About	
Matching	Your	Funding	
Strategy	to	Your	Business
@johnjpeebles
You	Can	Wait	On	Sales.	
Prolly Don’t	Even	Need	It.
@johnjpeebles
Your	Product	is	the	Most	
Important Thing
@johnjpeebles
Don’t Worry	About	
the	People	Stuff
@johnjpeebles
Other	Startups Are	
Killing	It. All	The	Time.
@johnjpeebles
You	Need to	Be	
in	Silicon	Valley
@johnjpeebles
Your	Investors	Aren’t	
Part	of	Your	Team
@johnjpeebles
Stay	Away	from	B2B.
It’s	Boring.
@johnjpeebles
Don’t	Worry	About
Your	Metrics
@johnjpeebles
Don’t Worry	About	the	Quadrant	of	Doom
Image	(mostly)	courtesy	of	Intercom
@johnjpeebles
You’re	Finished	If	You	
Don’t	Succeed
@johnjpeebles
This	Too	Shall	Pass
@johnjpeebles
John	Peebles
jjp@getadministrate.com

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