About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of reassessing business assumptions for startups that have been operating for over two years.

If you started a company more than two years ago, it’s likely that many of your assumptions are no longer true. You need to stop coding, building, recruiting, fund raising, etc., and take stock of what changed around you. Or your company will die.

People in this episode

Host: Steve Blank

Topics covered

• startup challenges
• business assumptions
• company survival
• market changes
• entrepreneurship

Keywords

• startup
• business assumptions
• entrepreneurship
• market changes
• company survival

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