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14 Entrepreneurs Describe The BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals) For Their Business?

Hearpreneur

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, where setting goals presents a fresh opportunity to achieve different objectives. From entry-level employees to managers to entrepreneurs, the only way to create long-term sustainability is to develop people who will continue to lead.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

This is why companies often get out-competed by former employees (Palm vs Handspring to name just one), even though the upstart lacks all of the familiar resources, tools, processes, and support they used to have. Start using some of those customers as guinea pigs for a self-serve version of the product.

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

The suburbs offered cheaper rents and increased quality of life for the employees. of endlessly trying different brands of lashes and adhesive (which hurt my business profits) and unfortunately my clients were the Guinea pigs who were getting inconsistent results because of it (which hurt business profits even more!). I was tired.

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Transcript of How to Create Ridiculously Good Content

Duct Tape Marketing

I thought my employees … I thought nobody trusted me. I wanted to make myself the guinea pig. I didn’t have any employees anymore, like gone. So, all of my energy went into pretending that I was happier than I was. But, the problem was, when you’re in that state it also … a lot of other things happen.