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10 Keys To Real Innovation In Your Next New Business

Startup Professionals Musings

It starts with a vision, but benefits quickly from a structured process of idea generation, evaluation, prototyping, customer feedback, and success metrics. Creating intellectual property, including patents, is the kay to long-term value and a sustainable competitive advantage. Training and coaching. Failure is the best teacher.

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10 Steps To A New Venture That Can Change The World

Startup Professionals Musings

It starts with a vision, but benefits quickly from a structured process of idea generation, evaluation, prototyping, customer feedback, and success metrics. Creating intellectual property, including patents, is the kay to long-term value and a sustainable competitive advantage. Training and coaching. Failure is the best teacher.

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10 Reasons To Start A Company In An Economic Downturn

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As Guy Kawasaki pointed out in our recent conversation , “…it is cheaper than ever to start a company. If there was ever a time to start a company, this is it.”. John Wooden, US basketball coach. People are free or cheap because of the recession. Marketing is free or cheap because of social media. Basically, everything is free.

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Reflections on 2020: Brian Mac Mahon, Expert Dojo

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We dont want to be the Y Combinator of Start, we want to be the Expert DOJO of startup. At Expert DOJO early stage startups receive $100,000 investment, success coaching, advice, and specialist help in all areas of their business growth. We are extremely focused on these regions in our hunt for Unicorns in 2021.

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5 Steps To Get You From Your First Idea To A Business

Startup Professionals Musings

in Physics who talks passionately about starting a business producing nuclear powered batteries. Then, he'll need to patent it and create a plan to show opportunity, competition, and financial projections. For example, I have a friend with a Ph.D. I have tried to convince him the general idea alone does not make a business.

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8 Business Accountability Lapses And How To Recover

Startup Professionals Musings

This almost always starts at the top, based on a founder’s dream and passion, without the proper homework on sizing the market, or assessing product realities. Kodak , as an example, had made so much money on film that they were reluctant to believe in the digital trend, even though they had one of the first digital camera patents.

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How Great Entrepreneurs Spell Continuous Innovation

Startup Professionals Musings

It starts with a vision, but benefits quickly from a structured process of idea generation, evaluation, prototyping, customer feedback, and success metrics. Creating intellectual property, including patents, is the key to long-term value and a sustainable competitive advantage. Training and coaching. New product process.