Top Ten Advice 
To 
Make Your Online Startup Succeed
FANS
FOCUS
PRIORITIZE
"Don't get high on your own supply"
ACTION
BE A PERSON
RESPECT & EQUALITY
TEAM
LONG HOURS
THINK LONG TERM
BE AWESOME
 "Boy is there a lot of startup advice floating around these days. And yet I’m about to do it again." Eric Ries, Lessons Learned
thank you

Paula Marttila
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1. Passion, love what you do
2. Enable your customers, solve a problem
3. ROE, return on engagement
4. Crowd surf: have a dialogue with users
5. OPEN (source, ID, social, API)
6. Function: super simple to use
7. Mashups: don't invent the wheel
8. Metrics: know what your customers do
9. Search friendly: tags, SEO, social, distributed
10. Mobile device friendly. All platforms.
FLICKR, CC:
torley: http://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/3674050796/
seangloster: http://www.flickr.com/photos/seangloster/847655067/
sneeu: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sneeu/202207719/
slazebni: http://www.flickr.com/photos/slazebni/2997717108/
Cuppojoe: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cuppojoe_trips/594428407/
runran: http://www.flickr.com/photos/runran/3816557888/
@FM: http://www.flickr.com/photos/36997872@N00/3952976095/
left-hand: http://www.flickr.com/photos/left-hand/2239790269/
theloushe: http://www.flickr.com/photos/theloushe/3696494100/
zen: http://www.flickr.com/photos/zen/241745451
ianus: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ianus/279779993/
valeriebb: http://www.flickr.com/photos/valeriebb/290711738/
zpeckler: http://www.flickr.com/photos/zpeckler/2500484769/
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