“No business plan ever survives first contact with a customer.” This is sage advice from start-up serial entreprenuer and author Steve Blank. The days are gone when a start-up has a 150 page polished and bound business plan. Today, ideas are a dime a dozen so unless you have actively engaged in customer discovery and validation […]
Read MoreOne of the most difficult tasks for any small business or entrepreneur is determining how to price their products and services. Often, startup ventures are unproven and feel in order to get a foothold into a new customer relationship, or out of desperation, that they have to “under-price” their products/services to win the customer. Ash […]
Read MoreThere is no shortage of press about Millennials in the workplace, but I think it’s time we shift our focus on the most promising next generation of entrepreneurs. Generation Z or the iGeneration – will be the first of many digital natives. While this group is the successor generation to millennials, there are not precise […]
MoreA confession – I have always been jealous of the concept of the 4 hour work week evangelized by Tim Ferriss. In fact, I have never been able to put into practice his concepts very well yet many people have implemented his shortcuts and it became life changing for them. Yearly, I try to re-read sections of […]
Read MoreHave you ever read a blog or company website and couldn’t easily make sense of the message? That is “business speak” at its worst. Jargon is so common in our world that plain English seems like the exception to the rule. We’ve become used to expressions and buzzwords that didn’t exist 10 or 15 years […]
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