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Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 30, 2022
Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. According to one study a decade ago, only 45% of founders plan to exit after stage one, and my guess is that less than half the remainder survive the next stage in their own company. Switch your attention from product development to sales.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 21, 2014
You’d imagine that companies selling tons of shelfware would quickly meet their deserved fate in the market, yet the spin around a category of software can fool buyers into thinking they “must have this product to compete.” ROI studies were published. How frequently they’re using the product?
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Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 28, 2020
You must never stop looking for ways to get more traction with fewer personal hours, and more productivity, efficiency, and momentum from the team. In my view, it’s really unfortunate that most employees in business are still paid by the hour, regardless of their productivity. Provide incentives to focus everyone on real results.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 12, 2022
This contextual focus is critical to innovation and survival – the right product at the right time. Failure rates this high demand a new mindset and startups are the logical place for this to happen. Relevant skills include continuous improvement of existing methods, processes and devices against a set of quality metrics.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 28, 2021
Thus I was pleased to see my own insights covered in a new book, “ Why Startups Fail ,” by Tom Eisenmann, a Harvard Business School professor, who has mentored many more entrepreneurs, and authored more than a hundred HBS case studies from real-world startups. Mergers and acquisitions also require new skills.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 1, 2019
Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. According to one study a while back, only 45% of founders plan to exit after stage one, and my guess is that less than half the remainder survive the next stage in their own company. Switch your attention from product development to sales.
socalTECH
AUGUST 30, 2017
David Baird: I've been a musician since I was five, studying classical piano, and evolved into guitar like so many other people. I can't imagine starting a service, like Airbnb, Uber, and other now famous marketplaces, and starting with zero users on either the supply or demand side. I've been in bands for a long time. READ MORE>>.
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