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Five Startup Tips From The Beatles

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Article first published as Five Business Tips From The Beatles on Technorati. As any long-time reader of this humble blog knows, I am an ardent Beatles fan. As any long-time reader of this humble blog knows, I am an ardent Beatles fan. Beatles Business Lessons. Note: This is an installment in the Iconic Advice series.

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Startup Lessons From The Beatles’ Biggest Failure

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The words "failure" and "the Beatles" seldom appear in the same sentence. However, the Beatles' early career was a series of failures, culminating in their unsuccessful audition with the leading record company of their era, Decca Records. Fortunately, the Beatles were not "most groups.". Failure Wasn't In Their Songbook.

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Your Startup Should Emulate The Beatles, Not A Flock Of Seagulls

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Note: This is Part VI in the Startup Team Building series. Why did A Flock of Seagulls crash soon after their initial hit while the Beatles’ career has spanned nearly 40-years, including a number one CD (“Love”) as recently as 2007? They realized that they had to conform to their customers’ collective reality in order to succeed.

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Balance Minimal Product Viability With Maximum Utility: Maximize Your Startup’s Value Proposition – MVP²

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With a few exceptions at the end of their career, the Beatles did not include songs that had previously been released as a single on their UK albums. According to George Martin, The Beatles’ Producer, “At the time, I didn’t want to shortchange the public. However, by the release of Sgt. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Startup Lessons From Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon

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Their deep understanding of their customers, an uncompromising drive to create a quality product and the courage to ignore the music industry's formulaic approach to producing hits resulted in the creation one of the top selling non-compilation albums of all time. A version of this article previously appeared on Inc.

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Startups Are A Remix

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So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. Everything Is A Remix – Including Your Startup. emphasis added).

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The Impact Matrix: Prioritize Your 2013 Initiatives Using This Startup Ninja Tool

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Dynamic, growing startups consistently identify more ideas and opportunities than they have the time or resources to pursue, including: entering into potential partnerships, developing new products and accessing emerging markets. It is that time of year again - annual planning season. The Impact Matrix. The Impact Matrix.

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