Startup Professionals Musings

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5 Keys To Starting New Trends Rather Than Following

Startup Professionals Musings

Even the smartest entrepreneurs have found that a well-designed market experiment will test a number of different hypothesis and variables at once, without a major investment, proving bad assumptions as well as validated ones as the experiment goes on. Focus on agility as the key skill your organization needs.

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6 Building Blocks Make Amazon A Global Market Leader

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In their recruiting process, they actually have a key insider designated as a “bar raiser” involved in ever interview, to make sure that the bar is never lowered due to any bias or pressing business urgency. Amazon extends this concept to continuously and proactively seek better talent as they learn more from results.

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7 Ways Successful Companies Stimulate Team Creativity

Startup Professionals Musings

On your part, it takes a totally different focus and skill to foster a creative team, compared to designing and building that first innovative product or solution. Small teams are inherently more agile, and tend to work in harmony, based on communication and direction from their leader, rather than second guess each other and play politics.

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How To Tune Business Strategy For Long-Term Success

Startup Professionals Musings

Make sustainability a key design objective for every step. You may start with prototype products, but you need rock-solid processes for successful growth and agility. Innovation must be applied to your business model, your processes, as well as your product offering. Aim to obsolete your own products with new, before competitors do it.