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In a Strong Wind Even Turkeys Can Fly

Both Sides of the Table

In other words, in a strong market even turkeys can fly. On July 27th, 2001 Accenture IPO’s and many of the partners grew fabulously wealthy. The things that always differentiated Accenture? There seem to be a lot of market entrants in every category where it becomes hard to differentiate them all from each other.

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[Review] The Rise Of The New East

YoungUpstarts

Spanning halfway round the globe – from Turkey to the United Arab Emirates to India, South East Asia and China – the book brings one on a fascinating tour of the complex business characteristics governing our neck of the woods. In fact, the region has more than 325 cities of populations larger than 750,000.

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What is the Primary Reason For Startup Failure?

Startup Professionals Musings

If you can’t bootstrap the venture yourself, find a partner, friend, or family member rather than a professional investor to carry some financial weight. The people around me are all turkeys.” So you made some bad hiring or partner decisions. I can’t find any investors in this economy.” We all make people mistakes.

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There Are Alternatives When Your Startup Falters

Startup Professionals Musings

If you can’t bootstrap the venture yourself, find a partner, friend, or family member rather than a professional investor to carry some financial weight. The people around me are all turkeys.” So you made some bad hiring or partner decisions. I can’t find any investors in this economy.” We all make people mistakes.

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Your Startup Can’t Fail If You Don’t Quit

Startup Professionals Musings

If you can’t bootstrap the venture yourself, find a partner, friend, or family member rather than a professional investor to carry some financial weight. The people around me are all turkeys.” So you made some bad hiring or partner decisions. I can’t find any investors in this economy.” We all make people mistakes.

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Satisfying Your Customers Need for Speed Today

Duct Tape Marketing

Recent episode, The power of just one big marketing idea and How to get it really brings home this idea that instead of chasing the idea of the week, really lock in on one big idea to differentiate your business that can make all the difference in the world. There's a restaurant here in town who doesn't have Turkey. It's good research.

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Why Taking Some Risks in the Sales Process Can Improve Results

Both Sides of the Table

In this post I advocate taking a harder stand on where your product or solution differentiates in the market – even if it means you lose some deals as a result. It would be like turkeys voting for Thanksgiving. We’d rather partner with those firms.” I recently wrote about the three rules of sales. Why Buy Me?

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