7 Tips to Save Your Startup from Disastrous Mistakes


Bangalore: A new venture can come across many new short comings and they may vary with situations. In order to avoid crisis your startup can avoid letting you down in simple ways as listed here.

With experiences so far, Phillipe Courtot, Founder and CEO of Qualys – a leading provider of Information security and compliance cloud solutions, has given some insights in a candid interview with Business Insider. Let us take a look at these seven encouraging pointers that would help you save your startup.

#7 Patience - a startup’s virtue

‘Patience is virtue’ and this applies to every startup entrepreneur. For Courtot, cloud computing was a target. But his customers would not believe that they could rely on it so easily. They did not trust cloud computing. But after 14 years of waiting, he took his company to the public when cloud computing was as hot as he envisioned it to be.

People like Courtot took their time to assess the best situation and period to bloom out. Being rash and impulsive may not let one get the right customers and the appropriate approach for your product or service.

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