Lessons from a Successful Startup

.Slideshare.net is one of the leading social publishing sites today. While they initially focused on providing a platform for sharing PowerPoint presentations, they have soon expanded to allowing users to share PDF documents, even videos.

The presentation above is a good walk through of Slideshare.net’s experience as a startup and the lessons they’ve learned. Slideshare is a tech business, but there are a number of lessons a non-tech business can learn as well from what they’ve experienced.

Here are lessons you can learn from Slideshare

• Know what it is exactly you are offering
• Solve one problem really well
• Speed is imperative
• Build for the right reasons: start with less, add complexity (when necessary)
• Execution is all that matters
• Understand market size (and revenue model)
• Use metrics