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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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10 Questions To Lead You To Timely Successful Change

Startup Professionals Musings

If entrepreneurs answer these questions for their startup, they will definitely stay ahead of most of their competitors in the startup world: What is the “secret sauce” that my startup brings to the problem? Here are ten of the key questions that apply equally well to the world of startups and entrepreneurs, as they do to large organizations.

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Don’t be a Grin Fucker

Both Sides of the Table

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

Both Sides of the Table

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

Both Sides of the Table

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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How a Tourist Can Help you with Your Startup

Both Sides of the Table

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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6 New Organizational Lessons From Amazon and Alibaba

Startup Professionals Musings

and China, as thought leaders in this area, so their framework for reinventing your business organization, with some of my own insights, is definitely worth a look: Environment: Fund a group to track market changes. These authors are widely recognized, both in the U.S.