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Transcript of How to Start Your Speaking Business

Duct Tape Marketing

It’s basically 100% of their income and revenue and their whole business model. Grant Baldwin: Meaning, John, if you and I were going to go, we’re looking for a good steak dinner, we could … Actually, you’re up in the Kansas City area. Both know speakers who do a hundred plus gigs a year.

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Herding Cats – Using Lean to Work Together

Steve Blank

Today, his company BMNT does for government and commercial customers what the Rapid Equipping Force did for the U.S. Unlike businesses, government organizations don’t sell products, and they don’t earn revenue. A beneficiary can be a soldier, program manager, commanding general, government contractor, stakeholder, customer, etc.)

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When Big Companies Are Dead But Don’t Know It

Steve Blank

The company had innovated, found a business model, grown successfully but now even as revenues continued to grow, the company was slowly but surely dying. The other founder, the business guy, managed to get its product legislated into consumer electronics devices. For me, I learned this lesson first hand. It was impressive.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Overall, nonventure-backed companies fail more often than venture-backed companies in the first four years of existence, typically because they dont have the capital to keep going if the business model doesnt work, Harvards Mr. Ghosh says. Write to Deborah Gage at deborah.gage@dowjones.com. Copyright 2012 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.