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Startup Lessons From Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon

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Their deep understanding of their customers, an uncompromising drive to create a quality product and the courage to ignore the music industry's formulaic approach to producing hits resulted in the creation one of the top selling non-compilation albums of all time. This audience feedback allowed the band to iteratively modify their creation.

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Deal Hair: Is Your Startup More Like Russell Brand Or Bruce Willis?

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Pattern matching involves identifying deal hair ; significant flaws which increase the deal's risk of failure. Sales Guy who can package and promote the opportunity, but who has minimal product development capabilities. Visionary Founder who identifies strategic market opportunities but cannot appropriately accept input from others.

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6 Hands-on Tips To Conquer Your Entrepreneurial Fears

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Seth began his entrepreneurial career when he dropped out of the University of California, Santa Barbara at 19 years old to start a clothing company, which he eventually built into a national line of denim products featured at Nordstrom, Macy’s and Neiman Marcus. Share and Enjoy.

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The Impact Matrix: Prioritize Your 2013 Initiatives Using This Startup Ninja Tool

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Dynamic, growing startups consistently identify more ideas and opportunities than they have the time or resources to pursue, including: entering into potential partnerships, developing new products and accessing emerging markets. This article previously appeared in Forbes. It is that time of year again - annual planning season.

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Startup CEOs Lessons From Ben Affleck

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These varied responsibilities are analogous to those of a startup CEO, as movie production crews are essentially temporary ventures. Startup CEOs should likewise create products they are passionate about and not pursue opportunities based on industry pundits' proclamations of "the next big thing.". Share and Enjoy.

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Lean Startup Legend Steve Blank Discloses His Most Daring Guerrilla Marketing Tactics

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After repositioning the company as a developer of high-end, premium products, Steve was excited to execute a marketing campaign. However, he stopped in his tracks when he learned that the engineers had only created a single product, rather than a family of graphics cards. We repackaged them and branded them as different products.

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Commission Junction Co-Founder Lex Sisney Applies A Scientific Approach To Analyzing Your Business

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By viewing companies through this prism, one can diagnose organizational problems and identify corresponding solutions, irrespective of a company's size, the markets it serves or even the personalities of its senior executives - which makes the book a powerful toolkit for business leaders. Share and Enjoy.