Category Archives: Business

Startup Tip #4 Listen To Hugh; Unleash The Entrepreneur Within!

Unleash the entrepreneur within.  I love this social object by McLeod that illustrates tip number 4 perfectly. We can get all technical, review business models, competitive landscape’s, develop the best teams but none of that matters if the entrepreneur is not unleashing his or her very best.  = We were all born creators- co-creators. Creative…

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Startup Tip #3: You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know

Startup Tip #3 Face it. In start-up you are doing new things. Many of which you’ve never done before. You can’t possibly know what you don’t know, especially if you’ve never travelled the road before.Blind spots. False Assumptions. Denial. Ignorance. Inflexibility and a lack of awareness can kill a startup. Don’t let it kill yours….

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Startup Tip #2: Market Validation vs Proof Of Concept

OF course it has to work. The new question is do you have market validation? Are there willing buyers prior to launch? What’s the proof? Do you have contracts? Letters of intent? Can you develop it strategically in unison with another player? Did you do the alpha inside of a potential client who will place…

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So You Want To Start A New Business: 20 Dos, 20 Don’ts

So I’ve been busy . Seems  more and more people are deciding it’s time to start a new business, or put their existing one in to high gear.   In the spirit of  small business, I’m going to commit the next 20 posts to how to start a business. I will share as many of my…

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Life Sucks When You Have To Say Goodbye Too Soon…..Jennifer Starr Malean

Life Sucks When You Have To Say Goodbye Too Soon…..Jennifer Starr Malean Death. We’d prefer not to think about it, that it never visited and  when it did; well, then of course we wished we’d taken that course on death and dying or lived in a culture that knew how to grieve and mourn… About…

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