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10 Disciplines Every Entrepreneur Needs To Practice

Startup Professionals Musings

Start the product design process by thinking about what a historian in the future would look back on as the one big thing that changed everything. Amazon uses this technique internally for all new product design efforts. Outsource services back to the customer. The future history assessment approach.

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5 Sources Of Ideas That Turn Into The Next Big Thing

Startup Professionals Musings

The hurricanes in the Gulf, the wildfires in California, and the monsoon floods around the world, all suggest that real opportunities for change are needed in climate control, forest management, and building design. I hear this term every day, wrongly applied to new social media site, or a new productivity tool.

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Maintain Your Startup Motivation While Working Harder

Startup Professionals Musings

Re-live that moment of inspiration that resulted in an innovative design and implementation for your product, and is now providing you with a sustainable competitive advantage. Appreciate the media accolades and peer success feedback. One approach, which is even more work, is to keep tasks in-house rather than outsourcing.

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7 Ways Your People Skills Are The Key To Your Success

Startup Professionals Musings

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Balance Your Focus Between Passion And Perspiration

Startup Professionals Musings

Re-live that moment of inspiration that resulted in an innovative design and implementation for your product, and is now providing you with a sustainable competitive advantage. Appreciate the media accolades and peer success feedback. One approach, which is even more work, is to keep tasks in-house rather than outsourcing.

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7 Success Factors When Your People Are The Solution

Startup Professionals Musings

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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5 Generators Of Customer Pain Conducive To Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

The hurricanes in the Gulf, the wildfires in California, and the monsoon floods around the world, all suggest that real opportunities for change are needed in climate control, forest management, and building design. I hear this term every day, wrongly applied to new social media site, or a new productivity tool.

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