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10 Tips To Ensure That Your New Venture Is Investable

Startup Professionals Musings

Ready to scale is when you have a proven product and a proven business model, about to expand to new geographies and markets. A software product is a classic example of a scalable solution, since it costs real money to build the first copy, but unlimited additional copies can be quickly cloned for almost no incremental cost.

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10 Keys To Enabling Your Startup For Unicorn Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

Ready to scale is when you have a proven product and a proven business model, about to expand to new geographies and markets. A software product is a classic example of a scalable solution, since it costs real money to build the first copy, but unlimited additional copies can be quickly cloned for almost no incremental cost.

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10 Elements That Show You’re a Pro Business

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Do be aware that eighty percent of customers and clients will not buy a product or service online until they have explored reviews from people that have already tried your company. Similarly, they are more likely to trust other customers compared to the word of your employees or direct marketing from your business.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

They are hard to do in a company that excels at products. Visionary CEOs are product and business model centric and extremely customer focused. The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted. What’s Missing?

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

They are hard to do in a company that excels at products. Visionary CEOs are product and business model centric and extremely customer focused. The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted. What’s Missing?

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Episode 44: Communication and Credibility with Scott Spiro and Tony Lillios

Mike Michalowicz

Tony shares his success story with Speck products and how his company skyrocketed to profitability. department for a fraction of the price of hiring these resources in-house. Get involved with direct marketing, go into media (news channels, radio shows, etc) to build credibility. Our Guests. Scott Spiro . Tony Lillios.

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13 Of The Biggest Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make (That May Not Seem Like Mistakes At All)

YoungUpstarts

Refusing to hire people who are smarter than you. Of course I shouldn’t hire people who are smarter than me , you might think. The best advice I got when I became the CEO of RME was to hire people who were better and smarter than I was. The best news is, getting personal doesn’t have to be time consuming or expensive.