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The Biggest Barriers Keeping Your Startup From Seeing Its Full Potential

ReadWriteStart

They want to open new offices, generate more revenue, and ultimately, secure higher profitability. . You’ll need money to get all the initial equipment, space, and people required to begin operations. You could work to get more PR exposure. And the revenue from your existing customers alone may not be enough to cut it. .

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Why the Future of Tesla May Depend on Knowing What Happened to Billy Durant

Steve Blank

The entrepreneur who founded and grew the largest startup in the world to $10 billion in revenue and got fired is someone you have probably never heard of. Each of these GM divisions focused on its own day-to-day operations with each division general manager responsible for the division’s profit and loss.

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SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent.

Steve Blank

But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction. And it was going to mention the two words that SuperMac marketing needed to live and breathe: revenue and profit. The same was true for PR. Two paragraphs, Five bullets. I couldn’t care less about those.

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Certainty on Demand: How Labor Platforms are Moving to Higher Order Work

This is going to be BIG.

You could build semi-rigid operating plans that cover most of the jobs that come through. These platforms enable automation to solve higher order problems effectively, driving above market revenues for lower cost tasks. Wethos will add more verticals of work. Take Block Renovation. Noken will add more countries.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. Totem is an operating system that makes investors smarter by helping them leverage their knowledge, relationships & insights.

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How to Craft (Or Pivot) Your Agency Value Proposition

ConversionXL

And so, the concept for a digital PR service was born. Using my existing skills and resources (including an old domain name), I tested a productized digital PR offer. About 18 months later, we pivoted our messaging to evolve beyond digital PR. These days, many agencies start as a lean operation. Image source ).

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Cracking The Code: Getting through the downturn: a few thoughts.

Cracking the Code

The fact that SaaS valuations are being more affected by the downturn than the Nasdaq can be surprising given the supposed resiliency of the SaaS model (recurring revenues) but it translates the public investors belief that SMB software spend is going to be hit very hard by this recession. Rethink vertical segmentation: Healthcare?