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10 Steps To Second Stage Success For Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

That’s where I see too much entrepreneur burnout, growth plateaus, and founders being replaced, to their chagrin. According to one study a decade ago, only 45% of founders plan to exit after stage one, and my guess is that less than half the remainder survive the next stage in their own company.

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10 Keys To Surviving From A Startup To An Enterprise

Startup Professionals Musings

That’s where I see too much entrepreneur burnout, growth plateaus, and founders being replaced, to their chagrin. According to one study a while back, only 45% of founders plan to exit after stage one, and my guess is that less than half the remainder survive the next stage in their own company.

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Pros and Cons of Being Your Own Boss

Up and Running

I’ve spent a lot of years as theoretically being my own boss, including more than 10 years as sole proprietor business planning consultant, working on my own with clients; and more than 10 years building a company, as founder and owner, working with employees. In my case, being my own boss, or not, was never really the point.

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Speed up or slow down? (for Harvard Business Review)

Startup Lessons Learned

This is the first post that moves into making specific process recommendations for product development. It usually looks like this: the can-do attitude and high-bandwidth communication that characterized the first few iterations have produced magic. Labels: product development Speed up or slow down?

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The Pre-Board Board: How to Create Accountability Before You Give Away a Board Seat

This is going to be BIG.

First off, many founders don't really feel the need to have external accountability. Not only that, founders get a lot of warnings from other founders about “losing control” and to be careful about ceding too much power to investors. For one, they have the bandwidth and network to actually be really helpful.

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Transcript of Bringing Marketing and Product Development Together

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of Bringing Marketing and Product Development Together written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. She is a Silicon Valley based strategic product and marketing executive, happens to be the Chief Product Officer at a project management tool called Obo. They’re focused on building product.

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10 Steps To Scaling Your Startup Toward A Fortune 500

Startup Professionals Musings

That’s where I see too much entrepreneur burnout, growth plateaus, and founders being replaced, to their chagrin. According to one study a while back, only 45% of founders plan to exit after stage one, and my guess is that less than half the remainder survive the next stage in their own company.

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