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7 Keys To Creating A Productive Business Team Culture

Startup Professionals Musings

The next step is to effectively and continuously communicate through multiple channels, including walking-the-talk, email, and really listening to feedback. Be sure to encompass all your constituents, especially including customers. Foster collaboration rather than competition. Team members must feel motivated and enabled.

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Need money? Read this!

Berkonomics

Friends, family and fools: [Email readers, continue here…] This term, although pejorative, describes the typical mix of early investors in a small, young growing business. But few businesses grow into the sweet spot of $20 million to $30 million in worth to an ultimate buyer without the injection of outside capital.

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10 Ways To Prepare Your Team For Business Leadership

Startup Professionals Musings

With the multiple technologies of team videos, smartphones, email, and the pervasive Internet facilitating total communication, there is no need for the delay and information loss of multiple hierarchy levels in business. Discourage internal team competition and silos. Horizontal teams are more effective as well as satisfying.

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Five ways to make your company stand out.

Berkonomics

Certainly Walmart, Target and others have gotten the attention of their potential customers using price as the primary leader to drive sales. Ford recently returned from the land of the nearly-dead to become not only profitable but a desirable alternative to the dominant Japanese cars by emphasizing quality at competitive prices.

Company 120
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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

Partly out of the fact that in 1 week I depart for England to speak at LeWeb, attend our DataSift board meeting and generally make myself available to the DataSift team to meet their customers, partners and employees. Email updates frequently. Key point – if your emails are as long as my blog posts you’re forked.

Tips 365
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Incremental differentiation doesn’t cut it anymore.

Berkonomics

Certainly Wal-Mart, Target and others have gotten the attention of their potential customers using price as the primary leader to drive sales. Ford returned from the land of the nearly-dead to become not only profitable but a desirable alternative to the dominant Japanese cars by emphasizing quality at competitive prices.

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7 Initiatives To Streamline and Focus Your Company

Startup Professionals Musings

Success in today’s rapidly changing and highly competitive business environment requires a total alignment between the needs of each business function and the priorities of all team members. Failed strategies erode your competitive position. Measure execution on a single strategy, rather than talk.

Company 54