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How big is your ocean? A lesson in TAM, SAM & SOM

Berkonomics

The biggest mistake many corporate marketers, entrepreneurs and even investors make in the initial stages of planning – overstating the size of the (SOM) serviceable obtainable market. So, is your (SOM) serviceable obtainable market large enough? So, is your (SOM) serviceable obtainable market large enough?

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9 Reasons Why Execution Trumps Thinking In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

In my role as an advisor to entrepreneurs and new businesses, I often get asked to critique an idea, but rarely get asked to comment on an implementation plan, or execution actions to date. While you are still thinking, your competition will be stealing your market or the opportunity itself may go away or evolve.

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How Surfing Made Me A Better Investor

InfoChachkie

Biggest Sets – No matter how flat the water may currently be, there is always another wave brewing further off the coast. Unfortunately, investors and surfers can be lemmings, which results in good breaks getting over surfed and market sectors attracting too much capital. Gnarly Corollaries Between Surfing And Investing.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

InfoChachkie

However, they seldom acknowledge their mistakes. What’s The Worst Mistake? Mistakes can be categorized as “false positives” or “false negatives.” Despite our business model reservations, we were sufficiently intrigued by Jeff and the opportunity to seek technical and market feedback from a VoIP expert.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. One Facebook executed the bowling pin strategy brilliantly by starting at Harvard and then spreading out to other colleges and eventually the general public. What’s going to happen in the future?' twenty in your wallet?

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ProfileTree | LinkedIn For Services, Advertisers & The Unemployed

Tech Zulu Event

Armed with a degree in Marketing and Business from University of Ulster in Northern Ireland and an Operations experience from Ireland, UAE and Egypt , Ciaran Connolly, 36 teamed up with Ernist Turdubaev 33, with a Master of Arts – Retail and Government Sector to launch ProfileTree. What is ProfileTree? Why this region?

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George Powell – Doing Well By Having Fun

InfoChachkie

I am always on the lookout for inspiring entrepreneurs who have leveraged their passions into healthy livelihoods as they serve as instructive role models for my UC Santa Barbara entrepreneurial students. In order to try your ideas in the real market place. How involved did you get in marketing the products you were creating?

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