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Lego Locks on To 6 Valuable Leadership Lessons for Small Business Owners

Small Business Force

" A recent article in The Wall Street Journal noted that Lego, the Danish manufacturer of interlocking toys, would lay off 1400 workers after the first sales drop in more than 13 years. We were going to miss our forecast by 25%. Between 2012 and 2016, Lego added 7,000 new employees. But unlike Lego, we did it differently.

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The Next 10 Years Of Infocomm Technology

YoungUpstarts

Painting the scenario of how things will evolve, Cort Isernhagen of IDC Insights forecasted at the recent Infocomm Technology Roadmap Symposium 2012 that the ICT landscape over the next 10 years needs to consider four macro trends supported by four key pillars of technology. How will these trends impact the way we work, live and play?

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The Lean Entrepreneur is here

Startup Lessons Learned

After the 2012 conference I viewed it as an opportunity to reflect on the growth and evolution of the movement as a whole. A few of the detailed case studies include: Tech legend Bill Gross building an MVP in 1999 to test demand for online car sales, which grew into CarsDirect.com. That new book is about to hit bookstores everywhere.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: Akamai

Seeing Both Sides

In 2012, analysts forecast the company will achieve nearly $1.5 Later joined by Jonathan Seelig, an MIT Sloan MBA student, the Akamai team raised an $8 million Series A based on the lab prototype in order to commercialize the product. This is the magic of what Akamai and other multi-product companies achieve as they scale.

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A budget discussion with an entrepreneur - Startups and angels.

Tim Keane

In other words, if you are forecasting 100 orders in the next quarter, at $10,000 each, I’d ask how many potential orders there are in the market, whether there is any existing competitive experience, and how you derived your timing. October 2012. Do you have assumptions about how long it will take to achieve each order? April 2013.