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These three steps will give you guidelines for creating something tangible to sell, a way to sell it, and a plan for profitability from the start.
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Before you argue with me about the future of crypto, web3, NFTs, and DeFi, let me try to spray a little foam on the (fake money fueled) fire.
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These strategies will help you solidify your own market footing, and make it that much harder for the incumbents to take you out before you take them out.
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I've narrowed down a few proven preventative strategies to proactively protect your startup's ideas and IP, in order from least effective to most.
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The problem with hiring your friends into your startup is that you're assuming that the dynamics from one relationship can translate to the second. This never happens.
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Every entrepreneur has big dreams of massive scale. Most of those big scale dreams are never realized. Here's how to crawl, walk, run your company to scale speed.
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The law of unintended consequences is a nightmare for both startups and mature companies. I believe I know why. And I think I've narrowed down the source of the problem.
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Experienced CEOs do whatever it takes to retain their best people. Because they're the ones who are going to navigate the company through the storm.
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For company goals to actually matter, they must be broken down into actionable steps that everyone understands and whose purpose in furthering the company's mission is clear.
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Asking your startup's customers the right questions, interpreting their feedback, then acting with the proper amount of force - that's a well-tested strategy for market growth.
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If your startup's potential is based on a hockey stick head fake or anything that can't be measured in revenue, then yeah, you should probably read those nervous investor memos.
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If your startup's potential is based on a hockey stick head fake or anything that can't be measured in revenue, then yeah, you should probably read those nervous investor memos.
It's easy to think that the big paydays that happen with some startups could happen to any startup. But the truth is that there is no formula for startup success.
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What I've learned over the last two decades about the difference between personal success and business success and why that difference is so important.
When entrepreneurs come up against a skill they don't have experience with, they tend to just not do it. What they should be doing is taking their best hack. Here's why.
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There's one leadership skill that I still suck at - even after 20+ years of founding and leading companies. And I'm not alone. I see this take leaders down repeatedly.
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The transition from startup family to corporate machine creates a culture that relegates the best talent to quiet background cog. They become a silent minority. Then they leave.
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Her startup had raised $3 million, but deadlines weren't being met, runway was burning, investors were frustrated, and customers were angry.
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I've been building and advising no-code startups for years now. And if you want your no-code business to take off, you have to treat no-code as a tool, not a business idea.
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When your startup idea isn't investable, here's what to do, based on my own experience as well as helping dozens of founders, both first-timers and repeat founders.
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