Easy and Hard Tech Startups
Some are easier, some are harder
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There are easy and hard tech startups from my experience. From being an engineering manager and CTO in several startups, to my consulting work in startups and my #CTO coaching practice for startup CTOs, I have seen many tech startups.
Easy startups are easy, and I’m skipping them here.
There are several types of hard startups
| Type | Reason why it is hard |
|---|---|
| Consumer Hardware | 2
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| Regulated Market |
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| Marketplace |
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| High touch sales B2B |
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Inkmi is now the fifth marketplace (ImmobilienScout24, brands4friends, eBay, eventsofa) I have founded or worked for as an engineering manager or CTO. Seems I’m stuck :-) In each of those startups pushing supply and demand was a struggle. Often it was not clear, if demand would follow supply or supply would offer demand. It was not clear where to focus and who was in the lead.
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