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10 Elements That Show You’re a Pro Business

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Similarly, they are more likely to trust other customers compared to the word of your employees or direct marketing from your business. Web Design Next, you should think about the web design for your business. One of the ways that you can deal with this is by hiring a professional web designer.

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10 Tips To Ensure That Your New Venture Is Investable

Startup Professionals Musings

Show that you have and can continue to hire the right people to run the scaled business without you being everywhere and making every decision. Focus on marketing and indirect channels to get the message out quickly. Direct marketing is generally not scalable, especially on low-cost high-volume products.

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10 Keys To Enabling Your Startup For Unicorn Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

Show that you have and can continue to hire the right people to run the scaled business without you being everywhere and making every decision. Focus on marketing and indirect channels to get the message out quickly. Direct marketing is generally not scalable, especially on low-cost high-volume products.

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

Steve Blank

These were not just product transitions, but radical business model transitions – new channels, new customers and new markets–and new emphasis on different parts of the organization (design became more important than the hardware itself and new executives became more important than the current ones).

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

Steve Blank

These were not just product transitions, but radical business model transitions – new channels, new customers and new markets–and new emphasis on different parts of the organization (design became more important than the hardware itself and new executives became more important than the current ones).

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13 Of The Biggest Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make (That May Not Seem Like Mistakes At All)

YoungUpstarts

Refusing to hire people who are smarter than you. Of course I shouldn’t hire people who are smarter than me , you might think. The best advice I got when I became the CEO of RME was to hire people who were better and smarter than I was. The best news is, getting personal doesn’t have to be time consuming or expensive.

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How to Recognize Great Conversion Optimization People

ConversionXL

But good optimizers are in very high demand, everyone and their mother is trying to hire one. If you’re looking to hire one, what should you look for? There are many universal traits that make anyone a “good hire” – like being proactive, hard working and so on – but what’s unique about optimizers?