Entrepreneur, blogger and best-selling author Seth Godin has been dishing out good advice via his blog that caught the attention of Dharmesh Shah at the On Startups blog. Shah listed 23 one-sentence take-aways any entrepreneur or executive building a business can learn from, calling it “23 Tweetable Startup Insights from Seth Godin.

Godin is author of “The Dip,” and “Meatball Sundae,” among other books. His Unleashing the Ideavirus is the most popular ebook ever written. More than 1,000,000 people downloaded the digital version of this book about how ideas spread. Featured in USA Today, The New York Times, The Industry Standard and Wired Online, Ideavirus hit #4 on the Amazon Japan bestseller list, and #5 in the USA.

The insights Shah gathered include such gems as:

Reliance on the tried and true can backfire.

Sell the problem. No business buys a solution for a problem they don’t have.

Being the first helps in the short run. Being a little more right pays off in the long run.

Subscriptions beat one-off sales.

Competition validates you, followed by, there are lots of good reasons to abandon a project. Having a little competition is not one of them.

For the full list see the link to On Startups above.

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