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Wow! Are your relationships important!

Berkonomics

Email readers, continue here…] I am chairman of the Technology Division of the ABL Organization, a roundtable organization with multiple CEO roundtables of about twelve members each, meeting monthly. It is from over a thousand of these CEO presentations over the years that I attempt to make the following generalities.

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Take this test to predict your success:

Berkonomics

Email readers, continue here…] Have you created high barriers to entry? Is it the advantage of time – years of development ahead of any competitor? Do you have a world-class management team? Do anything you can to develop compelling products or early prototypes as proof of ability to reduce your technology risk.

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Can you guess 10 tests for your success?

Berkonomics

Email readers, continue here…] Have you created high barriers to entry? Is it the advantage of time – years of development ahead of any competitor? Do you have a world-class management team? Do anything you can to develop compelling products or early prototypes as proof of ability to reduce technology risk.

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What can go wrong with your business growth?

Berkonomics

You can be the one to develop a product or service, promote it, and support it when you are a small operation. The first crisis is financial, funding the business, development, inventory, and marketing. Email readers, continue here…] And the third predictable crisis is…. Don’t be alarmed by this next statement.

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How well do you use your business time?

Berkonomics

Email readers, continue here…] The format also calls for the CEO to examine his calendar over time and report classes of activities by percentage of total time spent, so that the group may add comments about use of CEO time to the critique.

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Recognize your five critical business risks.

Berkonomics

Making such predictions is a skill that can be developed, and here’s one method of doing so. Is there a market for your class of product at all? If you could predict a crisis within your business before its occurrence, wouldn’t you move to prevent or reduce its impact? First let’s eliminate external risks for this conversation.

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Can a revolutionary concept be too late to market?

Berkonomics

If the market is moving quickly toward your class of product or service, you may be able to gain a piece just by being there at the right time with the right product or service. A story of a company that couldn’t see far enough ahead. The critical question no-one asked.

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