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Entrepreneurs Need To Keep Their Business Focused

Startup Professionals Musings

Investors hear this as trying to do too many things with limited resources, meaning the startup will not shine at anything, and will not survive the competition. Other elements of startup focus are a bit fuzzier, so let me zoom-in on some key ones here: Type of business model. Segment the opportunity.

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8 Key Focus Elements Will Attract Startup Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Investors hear this as trying to do too many things with limited resources, meaning the startup will not shine at anything, and will not survive the competition. Other elements of startup focus are a bit fuzzier, so let me zoom-in on some key ones here: Type of business model. Segment the opportunity.

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[Review] Startup Asia

YoungUpstarts

Asia – especially in countries such as India, China, Vietnam – is fast becoming the place where many entrepreneurs, whether locally born or lured back from Silicon Valley, are setting up shop.

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Entrepreneurs Need To Keep Their Business Focused

Gust

Investors hear this as trying to do too many things with limited resources, meaning the startup will not shine at anything, and will not survive the competition. Other elements of startup focus are a bit fuzzier, so let me zoom-in on some key ones here: Type of business model. Segment the opportunity.

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24 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Industries That Are Ripe For Disruption

Hearpreneur

Carbon farming is coming upon us rapidly it’s progress is already under the transforming influence of technological innovation, and rapidly gaining widespread attention among Venture Capitalists and angel investors. The SARS outbreak in 2002 leads to the tremendous growth of online marketplace platforms in China.

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Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. The biggest mistake for most of these startups was not understanding that optimizing their business model for the 24 million people in the Australian market would not prepare them for the size and scale they needed to get to big. Outside the U.S. Trip 2 to the U.S.

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Why Entrepreneurs Need To Keep Their Business Focused

Startup Professionals Musings

Unfortunately, often the result is potential customers who are confused, the limited resources of your business are spread too thin, and customers and investors look elsewhere for a better fit. Thus one of my key messages to entrepreneurs, as a business advisor and angel investor, is “focus.”