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Don’t be a Grin Fucker

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That’s the classic definition of Grin Fucking. McKinsey had their “ 7S framework &# and BCG had the “ BCG Matrix &# with cash cows, dogs, stars and question marks. I mean Porter’s Five forces is a useful framework but it’s basically microeconomics with a pretty wrapper. The title IS the post.

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Understanding How The Innovator’s Dilemma Affects You

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Many people bandy about the definitions of “disruptive technology&# or “the innovator’s dilemma&# without ever having read the book and almost universally misunderstand the concepts. I cannot recommend it enough for people in the technology or media sectors. It is not a beach novel to be sure.

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Journeymen, Mavericks & Superstars: Understanding Salespeople at Startups

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If you ever have to interview, hire, judge the performance of, decide whether to promote, assign clients/regions to them or have to decide whether to fire sales people, I think having a framework for thinking about them is helpful. Almost by definition. Mavericks are by definition bad at following rules and bad at process.

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Making Sure You Are Ready to Begin Building Your MVP

SoCal CTO

They look at the following high level definition of Lean: and they interpret that as write up an executive summary with your ideas and hand it to developers to build. This post will provide links to participants as well as to readers. What's Going to Go Wrong A lot of founders don't really understand Lean Startup principles.

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Think about Performance Before Building a Web Application

TechEmpower

Framework Benchmarks. We created our Web Framework Benchmarks project because we’ve run into situations where well known frameworks seem to cause significant performance pain for the applications built upon them. Performance is important, but it’s definitely not everything.

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The Benefits of Top-Down Thinking & Why it is Critical to Entrepreneurs

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This is a problem for a strategy consultant because you are, by definition, a generalist that is thrown into new problems again and again. I’m never right the first time so I spend time adjusting my frameworks. Often I had a very limited time. I struggled on my first few assignments. But applied correctly and this is golden.

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How a Tourist Can Help you with Your Startup

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You should be presenting data to your VCs and framing the decisions that you’re trying to make into cogent frameworks that will allow a group of experienced people to help you with decision making. If you’re not engaging your VC this way you’re losing out.

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