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Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 17, 2023
These fears and how every business can counter innovation assassination are explored in a classic book, “ Robert's Rules of Innovation II: The Art of Implementation ,” by Robert F. Entrepreneurs should look for ideas from anyone, inside the organization or outside, top down or bottoms up, but the implementation responsibility is all yours.
InfoChachkie
MARCH 21, 2019
Fast Followers Usually Beat First Movers. Ida wasn’t even the first modern-day entrepreneur to offer women brassieres. As the Flapper fashion trend fell out of favor, the company courted Hollywood actresses, including Elizabeth Taylor, to wear their bras in films, thus introducing brassieres to a national market.
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Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 27, 2020
These fears and how every business can counter innovation assassination are explored in a classic book, “ Robert's Rules of Innovation II: The Art of Implementation ,” by Robert F. Entrepreneurs should look for ideas from anyone, inside the organization or outside, top down or bottoms up, but the implementation responsibility is all yours.
SoCal Tech Calendar
FEBRUARY 25, 2011
Thursday, March 3, 2011 -- Shark Tank II. SDSIC Entrepreneur's Forum. Following on the popularity of last year's sold-out event, The Entrepreneur's Forum will be hosting the second annual Shark Tank event. The presenting companies are real, the investors are real, the money is not! See [link] (more)
InfoChachkie
APRIL 28, 2011
Many entrepreneurs encounter a similar dilemma. Thus, entrepreneurs must decide when to stop listening to the Sirens’ song of a quick buck and position their company to take advantage of long-term, sustainable business models. Below are descriptions of three companies which each faced short-term, lucrative opportunities.
InfoChachkie
SEPTEMBER 29, 2009
Click here for Part I and Part II. The alleged First Mover Advantage asserts that companies which are the first to exploit a new technology and/or market have an inherent advantage. As noted Fast Followers II , fast-follower entrepreneurs must have a solid point of differentiation in order to succeed.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 5, 2015
Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). billion collected in 2014. Professional venture capitalists will tell you the same thing.
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