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How big is your ocean? A lesson in TAM, SAM & SOM

Berkonomics

The biggest mistake many corporate marketers, entrepreneurs and even investors make in the initial stages of planning – overstating the size of the (SOM) serviceable obtainable market. So, is your (SOM) serviceable obtainable market large enough? So, is your (SOM) serviceable obtainable market large enough?

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How Surfing Made Me A Better Investor

InfoChachkie

Biggest Sets – No matter how flat the water may currently be, there is always another wave brewing further off the coast. Unfortunately, investors and surfers can be lemmings, which results in good breaks getting over surfed and market sectors attracting too much capital. Gnarly Corollaries Between Surfing And Investing.

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9 Reasons Why Execution Trumps Thinking In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

While you are still thinking, your competition will be stealing your market or the opportunity itself may go away or evolve. Building business relationships takes action and mistakes. In fact, most entrepreneurs tell me they learned more from people mistakes than successes. Time is money in business.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

InfoChachkie

However, they seldom acknowledge their mistakes. What’s The Worst Mistake? Mistakes can be categorized as “false positives” or “false negatives.” Despite our business model reservations, we were sufficiently intrigued by Jeff and the opportunity to seek technical and market feedback from a VoIP expert. > -jeff.

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ProfileTree | LinkedIn For Services, Advertisers & The Unemployed

Tech Zulu Event

Armed with a degree in Marketing and Business from University of Ulster in Northern Ireland and an Operations experience from Ireland, UAE and Egypt , Ciaran Connolly, 36 teamed up with Ernist Turdubaev 33, with a Master of Arts – Retail and Government Sector to launch ProfileTree. What is ProfileTree? But we engage.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

I see this mistake all the time, actually. I’m guessing this was also the case over the first few year’s of Zynga’s growth on Facebook. Once they knew how much money they could make with virtual goods / customer then they seemed to buy up much of the Facebook ad inventory. SEO is seldom “free.”. So if you convert 12.5%

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George Powell – Doing Well By Having Fun

InfoChachkie

Together they created The Bones Brigade skateboard team which launched the careers of many of skateboarding’s biggest celebrities, including: Alan Gelfand, Mike McGill, Steve Caballero, Tony Hawk, Rodney Mullen, Lance Mountain, Tommy Guerrero and Kevin Harris. In order to try your ideas in the real market place.

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