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7 Keys To Keeping Your Business Agile And Competitive

Startup Professionals Musings

He lived the philosophy that companies must be paranoid in order to survive, and continually disrupt their own markets to prevent overrun by competition. If you find yourself being surprised by new competitor offerings and customer demands, then perhaps you are not paying attention. Demand and reward speedy analysis and execution.

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Demand pull – cost push.

Berkonomics

Place your cash bets behind proven demand. The term, “demand pull – cost push” was created by the great economist, John Maynard Keynes, to describe the two primary drivers of economic inflation. Push the costs into market niches where you seed your marketing, and experience the pull of customer demand as a result.

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7 Advantages For Being A Socially Responsible Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Startups can use social responsibility as a competitive advantage. That’s a real competitive edge that you can use in your marketing and positioning. The anecdotal evidence is growing that consumers are willing to pay a premium for sustainability, and have started to demand a discount for ‘un-sustainability.’

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8 Practices Common To The Greatest Leader Role Models

Startup Professionals Musings

Measure by relationships as well as competitiveness. They are always on the lookout for talent by peer networking, studying competitors, and working with top university contacts. Great leaders provide opportunities and personal growth assignments that go far beyond conventional training programs. Willing and able to hire on the spot.

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6 Initiatives To Prep Your Startup For The Road Ahead

Startup Professionals Musings

The solution is to establish and maintain a culture and processes that don’t view change as a discrete event to be spotted and managed, but as an ongoing opportunity to improve competitiveness. Failure rates this high demand a new mindset and startups are the logical place for this to happen. In summary, change will happen.

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Micromobility in limbo: Takeaways from Paris and LA

TechCrunch LA

Despite that apparent hunger, two scooter operators – Lyft and Spin – recently exited the Los Angeles area, blaming a lack of favorable regulations and too much competition, which apparently made it difficult to turn a profit. Most riders (72%) in the study said they shifted from walking and public transportation, not cars.

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8 Qualities That All Super Business Leaders Display

Startup Professionals Musings

Measure by relationships as well as competitiveness. They are always on the lookout for talent by peer networking, studying competitors, and working with top university contacts. Great leaders provide opportunities and personal growth assignments that go far beyond conventional training programs. Willing and able to hire on the spot.

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