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Does your startup have these two critical success factors? | Rags to Wreckages ... to Riches
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Rags to Wreckages. to Riches. Rapid Innovation - Rapid Startup Success. My book: 100 Rules For Entrepreneurs. Does your startup have these two critical success factors? Startups recognise that neither a good nor an exceptional product or new idea alone is enough to succeed. 1 Customer recruitment (and retention). However, this masks a key insight. That is, that it is not enough to recruit new customers but essential to also re-recruit or retain those customers too. Those startups that can be more specifi...
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“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you’re doomed if you don’t try.” – Beverly Sills. | Rags to Wreckages ... to Riches
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Rags to Wreckages. to Riches. Rapid Innovation - Rapid Startup Success. My book: 100 Rules For Entrepreneurs. 8220;You may be disappointed if you fail, but you’re doomed if you don’t try.” – Beverly Sills. Share on google plus. Subscribe to the comments on this post. Be Sociable, Share! Leader. Speaker. Trainer. Helping snr execs and entrepreneurs achieve their business and funding goals. Click here to cancel reply. Mail (will not be published) (required). Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. Grow ...
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7 Ways How Not to Panic - and 4 Tips for the wise | Rags to Wreckages ... to Riches
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Rags to Wreckages. to Riches. Rapid Innovation - Rapid Startup Success. My book: 100 Rules For Entrepreneurs. 7 Ways to Panic – and 7 Tips for the Wise. Okay, your startup has gained traction and achieved some growth – but cash is about to run out. It is time to panic – but what is the best way to panic? Here are some light hearted solutions. This could lead to widespread panic, so bolt the doors first! 2 Tell no one. 3 Relish the moment. 8211; hey, its fun, right? 4 Get yourself a payday loan. You see, ...
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What is the purpose of innovation? | Rags to Wreckages ... to Riches
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Rags to Wreckages. to Riches. Rapid Innovation - Rapid Startup Success. My book: 100 Rules For Entrepreneurs. What is the purpose of innovation? What is the purpose of innovation? To create new products…. To create new customer demand…. To build strong teams capable of constant innovation…. 8230; or all three? Well, you guessed it, it’s all three…. but to find out why is this an important question we need to go back a bit…. Add into this mix the point that the third core purpose of innovation is to creat...
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The Dawn of the Transparent Leader? | Rags to Wreckages ... to Riches
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Rags to Wreckages. to Riches. Rapid Innovation - Rapid Startup Success. My book: 100 Rules For Entrepreneurs. The Dawn of the Transparent Leader? The recent corporate scandals, from Libor fixing to horse meat in our burgers, has shone a bright light on the role and character of business and banking leaders as never before. The speed with which famous CEOs swiftly depart is an indication that the nature of leadership has changed fundamentally. I’ve explored this idea of transparent leadership. With Jobs, ...
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Leadership - why it is the be all and end all | Rags to Wreckages ... to Riches
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Rags to Wreckages. to Riches. Rapid Innovation - Rapid Startup Success. My book: 100 Rules For Entrepreneurs. Leadership – why it is the be all and end all. If you’ve been wondering where I’ve been writing recently, well, I’ve been writing a leadership column for Real Business magazine. If you’d like, you can check out these latest leadership articles. What business leaders can learn from Arsenal. No leaders, no growth. You’ll see that the theme has shifted very much to leadership. Hence, whilst we can d...
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Paying a Startup Team before Funding | Rags to Wreckages ... to Riches
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Rags to Wreckages. to Riches. Rapid Innovation - Rapid Startup Success. My book: 100 Rules For Entrepreneurs. The 3 Keys to Paying a Startup Team before Funding. Here is a puzzle – how do you pay a startup team before you have any money? Well, the obvious answer is that you can’t. 8211; but, nevertheless, the team needs motivation and hence, that is why the conversation begins with equity. So, for the early stage startup we find ourselves back with equity and the question of how do we share it? So, most ...
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How JK Rowling used failure as her bedrock for future success | Rags to Wreckages ... to Riches
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Rags to Wreckages. to Riches. Rapid Innovation - Rapid Startup Success. My book: 100 Rules For Entrepreneurs. How JK Rowling used failure as her bedrock for future success. JK Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, talks about how failure in career, marriage and financially, led her to focus on the one area in which she was truly equipped to succeed. She says that had she not experienced the failure, she might never have gone on to write one the worlds’s most popular series of books. Firstly, failur...
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What do you call an entrepreneur with a great idea but no sales? | Rags to Wreckages ... to Riches
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Rags to Wreckages. to Riches. Rapid Innovation - Rapid Startup Success. My book: 100 Rules For Entrepreneurs. What do you call an entrepreneur with a great idea but no sales? What do you call an entrepreneur with a great idea but no sales? Someone who never makes it? So then, how. You become a successful entrepreneur? You need to open your shop or market stall or website. In simplest form, success as an entrepreneur is when you take a great idea AND turn that into revenue (and then into profit too! 8211;...
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Start up? You don't need a bank, business angels or VCs unless... | Rags to Wreckages ... to Riches
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Rags to Wreckages. to Riches. Rapid Innovation - Rapid Startup Success. My book: 100 Rules For Entrepreneurs. You don’t need a bank, business angels or VCs unless…. Watch this neat video from the Kaufmann Foundation and you’ll see that the vast majority of new startup businesses don’t need business angels or VCs or banks. That is, if you can use your own savings, friends and families and then generate enough cashflow to grow the business. Here’s the video. Share on google plus. Be Sociable, Share! Why Ma...