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The Impact Matrix: Prioritize Your 2013 Initiatives Using This Startup Ninja Tool

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Dynamic, growing startups consistently identify more ideas and opportunities than they have the time or resources to pursue, including: entering into potential partnerships, developing new products and accessing emerging markets. Resources : 2 - relatively small. This article previously appeared in Forbes.

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Startup Lessons From The Beatles’ Biggest Failure

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Entrepreneurs can draw a number of startup lessons from the manner in which the Beatles' addressed Decca's devastating rejection. A startup can likewise ill afford to compromise when establishing its core team. Lesson - Startups have limited opportunities to secure key customers, investors and employees. Share and Enjoy.

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6 Hands-on Tips To Conquer Your Entrepreneurial Fears

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Seth began his entrepreneurial career when he dropped out of the University of California, Santa Barbara at 19 years old to start a clothing company, which he eventually built into a national line of denim products featured at Nordstrom, Macy’s and Neiman Marcus. Follow my startup-oriented Twitter feed here: @johngreathouse.

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Lean Startup Legend Steve Blank Discloses His Most Daring Guerrilla Marketing Tactics

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In addition to being a thought leader within the Lean Startup Movement , Steve is also a professor at Stanford and Berkley. Despite these abundant resources, the team's ineffectiveness was reflected by the company's dismal 11% market share. The team failed to understand that marketing's primary role at a startup is to drive sales.

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Recruit Cal Ripken, Not Reggie Jackson, To Your Startup

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Managerial Oversight And Performance Matter At A Startup. If they do not adequately improve over time, consider counseling them out of your startup. Prima Donna Benchwarmers – These individuals represent the worst type of startup employee. Share and Enjoy.

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Startup Sales Lessons From TLC’s “Say Yes To The Dress”

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Such pro active communications allows startups to be more responsive than their larger, resource-rich competitors. Startup sales require high velocity. Startups must follow a similar philosophy. Startups should deploy a similar tag team approach. Startups should deploy a similar tag team approach.

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Combustion Matters More Than Scale

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In the business world, a fire subsisting on fuel wood is equivalent to a startup that has achieved scale. Scaling normally occurs after a startup achieves product-market fit. At scale, entrepreneurs have the luxury of shifting their focus from survival to maximizing the return on their resources. Don''t Define Scale Too Early.

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