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Entrepreneurs Need To Keep Their Business Focused

Startup Professionals Musings

Other elements of startup focus are a bit fuzzier, so let me zoom-in on some key ones here: Type of business model. Providing shoes for the poor is a laudable goal, but quite a different business than Zappos , which sells clothes profitably, and provides free shoes for the needy due to social consciousness.

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8 Key Focus Elements Will Attract Startup Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Other elements of startup focus are a bit fuzzier, so let me zoom-in on some key ones here: Type of business model. Providing shoes for the poor is a laudable goal, but quite a different business than Zappos , which sells clothes profitably, and provides free shoes for the needy due to social consciousness.

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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. Most consulting services, like marketing, are not scalable, since they must be delivered by experts, and cloning experts is slow and expensive. These are more likely scalable and investable.

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

Steve Blank

These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading. Execution and Organization of Core Businesses. Services (Cloud, ads, music) have a very different business model. Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these. What’s Missing?

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

Steve Blank

These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading. Execution and Organization of Core Businesses. Services (Cloud, ads, music) have a very different business model. Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these. What’s Missing?

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Entrepreneurs Need To Keep Their Business Focused

Gust

Other elements of startup focus are a bit fuzzier, so let me zoom-in on some key ones here: Type of business model. Providing shoes for the poor is a laudable goal, but quite a different business than Zappos , which sells clothes profitably, and provides free shoes for the needy due to social consciousness.

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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. Most consulting services, like marketing, are not scalable, since they must be delivered by experts, and cloning experts is slow and expensive. These are more likely scalable and investable.