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Why Acceptance of Failure is Critical to Startup Success

Both Sides of the Table

I have experienced many first-time entrepreneurs with too much hubris if fund-raising came easily and press was fawning and employees joined in droves and customer adoption has been rapid. I believe this scientific method and trial-and-error approach is one of Silicon Valley’s most valuable strengths.

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The Covid-19 virus is not politically correct

Steve Blank

It takes data from South Korea, Spain, Italy and China. Remove all business restrictions for workers and customers under a certain age. Businesses can make additional revenue catering to those who remain sheltered. Compounding the age risk factor are chronic health problems (i.e. seem to track these.

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How To Keep Your Company Alive – Observe, Orient, Decide and Act

Steve Blank

Your customers will no longer be your customers. Your revenue plans are no longer valid. What’s your monthly cash burn at your new low revenue level? Your customers start buying. China and South Korea are starting their factories up again. The ripple effects won’t be obvious at first.

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When Small Businesses Meet Big Opportunities

YoungUpstarts

New suppliers and customers can be found much further afield, and even internationally, literally with the click of a mouse. Globally, SMEs that sell overseas generate average revenues of US$1.5 Its custom-built market analysis tools have over 340,000 users worldwide and it ran almost 450 capacity-building workshops in 20135.

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New Web Order - Finding a Technical Co-Founder

nikcub.appspot.com

Talk to customers - Work out who your ideal first 20 customers will be, and email them and ask them what their current pain points are. instead of doing a GroupOn clone in South Korea, how about contacting GroupOn and asking if you can franchise? What do they do that sucks so much that you can do better? Recent Posts.

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11 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2018

Hearpreneur

One is entitled Murder in the Classroom: A Practical Guide for Prevention and the other is Unconventional Customer Service: How-to Break the Rules to Provide Unparalleled Service. 9-Increase in my revenue. This year I was able to increase my revenue by more than double from the previous year. Thanks to Robert Sollars. #9-Increase

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Are Facebook Investors Playing Russian Roulette?

crowdSPRING Blog

They can’t – certainly not based on Facebook’s current revenue opportunities. First , there’s a huge disconnect between Facebook’s user growth and potential revenue per user. That’s very healthy revenue, but significantly below the revenue needed to justify a 100 billion dollar valuation.