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Entrepreneurs Need To Keep Their Business Focused

Startup Professionals Musings

Unfocused entrepreneurs boast that their new technology will generate multiple disruptive products for consumers as well as enterprises around the world. Focus means starting with a problem that is painful, rather than a technology, and showing how you can solve that problem better than anyone else. Solve one problem really well.

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8 Key Focus Elements Will Attract Startup Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Unfocused entrepreneurs boast that their new technology will generate multiple disruptive products for consumers as well as enterprises around the world. Focus means starting with a problem that is painful, rather than a technology, and showing how you can solve that problem better than anyone else. Solve one problem really well.

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Too Many Small Businesses Still Ignore Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

When my friend’s small business was struggling a while back, I suggested he add some social media marketing initiatives, and his answer was that he was “too busy.” According to a recent Harvard Business Review article , only 60% of companies today use social media for marketing, and only 12% of those feel that they are using it effectively.

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Always Right: Five Risks You Must Take With Your Customers

YoungUpstarts

If you lose a customer due to price or other circumstances beyond your control, then fine. Before technology made it possible for people to connect with each other anytime and anywhere, customer-business interaction was limited to phone calls and in-person visits. Today, though, technology has changed that model.

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Entrepreneurs Need To Keep Their Business Focused

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Unfocused entrepreneurs boast that their new technology will generate multiple disruptive products for consumers as well as enterprises around the world. Focus means starting with a problem that is painful, rather than a technology, and showing how you can solve that problem better than anyone else. Zappos logo via Flickr by Ben Spark.

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Debating the Tech Bubble with Steve Blank: Part I

Ben's Blog

We are not in a technology bubble. We have not even taken a major step towards a technology bubble. So let us first ask if “a very high percentage of the population&# has bought into a distorted premise about the future growth prospects for technology. Thirdly, the market is far bigger. The internet is working.

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Tips For SaaS Businesses To Up Their Game By Leveraging Web Push Notifications

YoungUpstarts

Hence, it is critical to market it the right way. Direct marketing doesn’t work out often, so, to make the brand visible, you need other marketing efforts. Supported by all the leading browsers including Chrome, Firefox and Safari, the adoption of web push technology has been rapid. Re-targeting.

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