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7 Keys To Keeping Your Business Agile And Competitive

Startup Professionals Musings

I’m sorry to predict it will never happen, so the agility you may have learned over the past couple of years will continue to be critical to your survival. As the entrepreneur, business owner, or leader, your message must never be “if it’s not broken, don’t fix it.” Every good entrepreneur I know has a “ proactive mindset.”

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5 Phases Of Every Startup That Regulate Your Success

Startup Professionals Musings

Big company powerhouses, like IBM and Xerox, took fifty years to make the cycle, but new companies today, in the age of the Internet, often make the cycle in five to ten years, or even less. Thus it behooves every entrepreneur to start watching these things more carefully from the very start. Consider MySpace and Webvan.

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30 Entrepreneurs Share Their Thoughts on the Future of Entrepreneurship

Hearpreneur

Some entrepreneurs will say the future is definitely bright but to others, some of these changes are meant to work against their expansion and business operations. The COVID-19 pandemic may have changed the way we work for good, creating unique opportunities for entrepreneurs in the process. 4- Entrepreneurs would do well.

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Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

But over the years I realized his comment was actually an astute observation about the mental mindset of an entrepreneur, and therein lies the purpose of this post. In fact using uncertainty as your path is an advantage entrepreneurs share. You’re Hired, You’re Fired. I wore it as a badge of honor.

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8 Tips For Success In Turning A Dream Into A Business

Startup Professionals Musings

As an advisor to business professionals and entrepreneurs, I often hear about an innovative new solution that could lead to business growth or a new business. Successful entrepreneurs are always analyzing market feedback, remain agile, and are quick to make corrections or change course if things aren’t working.

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How to build an agile and scalable SaaS for long-term success

The Next Web

For us, this means using best of breed cloud hosted services like Adobe Connect and Kaltura , taking advantage of the best open source applications that run the Internet like Apache and MongoDB , and building our own proprietary cloud-hosted tools when appropriate on great platforms like Amazon Web Services and Salesforce.com.

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16 Entrepreneurs Share Advice That’s The Complete Opposite of What They Learned Before Starting Their Venture

Hearpreneur

These pieces of advice go against the notion of having a concrete blueprint, urging entrepreneurs to embrace uncertainty and navigate the uncharted waters of their journey with an adventurous spirit. Contrary to the initial advice, I learned that it's essential to embrace agility and be willing to pivot when necessary.