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Advice for Hard-tech and Biotech Founders by Jared Friedman

Startup School by Y Combinator

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Sell Your Product Before You Build It

The cheapest, tallo communication satellite that is useful costs like at least ten million dollars to build and launch. astronus hack was to start with a test satellite. They built it in less than three months during lyce, and for less than 50 thousand dollars. By launching an actual, fully functional satellite into space and showing that they could do that, they were able to generate the credibility that they needed to go and raise the money to launch their full-scale communications satellite.

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