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8 Levels Of Responsibility Lead To Change In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

To explain accountability, she and I are strong proponents of the Accountability Ladder , which has been included in every Management 101 class for many years. Usually these people think they are doing a great job, and are totally oblivious to their unhappy customers or cash drain. Wait and hope for a miracle.

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5 Steps To An Innovative And Winning New Venture Plan

Startup Professionals Musings

If you can’t identify customer interest, it doesn’t matter how good your product is. You need a good cook, good marketing, and first-class service. Don’t be afraid to test your ultimate entree on customers. This means find some hungry people who would love a good dinner, and be willing to pay for it. Make them “feel the love.”

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7 Keys To Scaling Your Startup To Be The Next Unicorn

Startup Professionals Musings

Bring in an experienced Board and world-class leaders. Switch your focus from product development to sales. Explosive growth to an enterprise normally requires a scalable sales model, a well-documented process with incentives, training, and metrics for tracking and management.

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5 Basic Ingredients For A Startup Recipe For Success

Startup Professionals Musings

If you can’t identify customer interest, it doesn’t matter how good your product is. You need a good cook, good marketing, and first-class service. Don’t be afraid to test your ultimate entree on customers. This means find some hungry people who would love a good dinner, and be willing to pay for it. Make them “feel the love.”

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7 Ways To Highlight Your Personal Value To Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Develop a personal story as a visionary and learner. These show a focus on the business elements required for success, and metrics for ensuring accountability, management control, and feedback along the way. You need to show you have a “Plan B,” and a never-give-up mindset, in handling any competitive threat or customer reaction.

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

Both Sides of the Table

There is nothing more pure than building a product, putting it out in the world and seeing paying customers using your product and in some cases loving it. Sam’s vision was to build a world-class “reverse logistics” company that could be as ambitious as Amazon has been in delivering goods to our houses.

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5 Steps To Strategy Tuning Through Machine Learning

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, most e-commerce platforms today offer millions of products, with a changing mix daily and a changing market, such that it’s virtually impossible to manually predict a strategy for mapping customer demographics to products displayed online. This is a new class of software that can adapt in real time to market changes.