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5 Forces That Kill Momentum For Business First-Movers

Startup Professionals Musings

They outline and give some positive recommendations to counter the key organizational impediments to fast transformation that I see all too often, even in businesses with top management committed to first-mover speed and agility: Passive resistance to change from within the organization. Transformation fatigue from continual challenges.

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9 Stages to Building a Robust And Rewarding Business

Startup Professionals Musings

In the spirit of helping you avoid some of our own learning experiences with startups, I will paraphrase here the nine key stages that he and I both see most businesses going through in their evolution from a startup to a successful and stable entity: You can’t sustain a business without positive cash flow.

Metrics 351
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8 Business Execution Strategies That Lead To Success

Startup Professionals Musings

I’m sure you have all seen entrepreneurs and startups with great ideas that never seem to live up to their potential, while others with more mundane solutions seem to take off quickly and never slow down. If you tell me that you have been working on your startup for two years, but can’t quite quantify the progress, I’m not impressed.

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The Enterprise Strikes Back

BeyondVC

There will also still be some amazing companies that raise their Series C, D and beyond funding rounds with scaling metrics. However as a first check investor in enterprise startups, the companies that truly get my attention are more of the infrastructure layer companies like Mulesoft and Pivotal.

Cloud 60
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8 Business Accountability Lapses And How To Recover

Startup Professionals Musings

You can and must fix this by communicating business goals and objectives, and establishing personal metrics which only reward success. Accountable leaders and teams realize that pivots are often required, and the agility to make changes to the product, business model, and even the customer set, must be part of every accountable culture.

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Twitter Link Roundup #267 – Flawless Resources for Small Business, Startups, and Design!

crowdSPRING Blog

We just love sharing articles about fonts, logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! Small Business and Startup Tips: Analyzing Your Search Data | @crowdSPRING Blog – bit.ly/1EFd59a. 30 Startup Lessons – buff.ly/1DIXcZy.

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Startup Resources

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