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08.24.17
Meeting Madness- Cut the Clutter (or the other C word of your choosing!)
When my kids were younger, I asked them what they thought I did for a living. My three boys were quick to respond. They said, “Dad you are always in meetings, and you eat business lunches out a lot.” They certainly simplified my professional life, but as we have all come to realize – meetings […]
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Early Stage Investment Basics
“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 More08.14.17
How to Overcome the Unique Challenges of Emerging Businesses
This is the 10th and final article in a series on How to Overcome the Unique Challenges of Emerging Businesses (20-100 Employees) Summary: The 3 Deadly Distractions How do you, as the CEO of a 20-100 employee company, crack the code on the potentially disastrous distractions identified in articles #2-5 in this series? How can you counteract? First, […]
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Founders: The One Decision Required
How to Overcome the Unique Challenges of Emerging Businesses (20-100 Employees) Article #9 in the series If you have built a company to the emerging business size, you are in rare air. You have succeeded where only a handful out of every hundred CEOs ever have. You have navigated very different and difficult phases: start-up, acceleration, and […]
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Are You Getting Paid What You’re Worth?
One 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 […]
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