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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

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We spent a few hundred thousand dollars opening up operations in Chicago and Washington D.C. We realized that operating a business in distributed markets presented multi-city coordination efforts that we weren’t prepared for. Whereas New York City had people living in close clusters , Chicago and Washington D.C.

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How Saboteurs Threaten Innovation–and What to Do About It

Steve Blank

Lock-up critical resources , like materials, components, people, law firms, distribution channels, partners and make them unavailable to innovation groups/startups. Incumbents have dedicated staffs to shape requirements and budgets for their products, as well as dedicated staff for continual facetime in Washington.

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20 Entrepreneurs Share Their Takeaways from 2020

Hearpreneur

Throughout the different phases of the pandemic, we have spent even more time with our existing customers and actively sought out their advice on how we can make our platform and services better as this distributed work environment continues. Photo Credit: J Haleem Washington. Thanks to J Haleem Washington, J Haleem, LLC ! #5-

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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dominated by a few very large incumbents who control much of the distribution or are you going into a market that is “fragmented” where nobody controls the industry. That marketing can be PR or SEO or influencer distribution or other forms of “unpaid” marketing. It it just more time that they save? Efficiency?

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

Either way, you can use any marketing channel thats available to bring in new customers, including word of traditional advertising, SEO, SEM - wherever you can find prospects who are going to find your product addicting. Thats why eBay advertises on search engines, and Facebook doesnt. As far as they are concerned, thats eBays job.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

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Richard De Silva started off as a journalist with the Washington Post after growing up in D.C. He then worked in consulting which gave him a broad base of business experience working with the newspaper, cable, and advertising industries. It is important for brand advertisers that their ads appear next to accurate search terms.

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