Uncheck all of the programs you don't need to start up.
A listing on the Oct. 19 cover describing "What Does a Start-Up Need?
Olivia Solon reports that start-ups need to work hard to avoid hiring misfits.
"So hopefully, when these start-ups need a lawyer, they think of us".
Anyone doubting the increasingly mainstream status of Internet start-ups need only hear two words: Bob Dole.
Starting Up: Homework Will Never Be Fun Ben Yoskovitz says that start-ups need to make leaps of faith but not blindly.
For example, most start-ups need Web design, programming, P.R. and marketing, sales, capital and a captain to steer the ship.
For one thing, the bosses of renewable-energy start-ups need to understand enough about the science to be able to pluck scientists from obscurity.
And this at a time when problems such as recruiting the right people and managing growth mean that start-ups need support more than ever.
Even then, not all start-ups need ads—some are happy with social media and many others would rather have cash instead.
Making it easier for companies to go out of business would also make sense; start-ups need to be able to fail in a clean and relatively painless way when things do not go well.
