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7 Ways To Keep Your Business Working Like A Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

I remember too many once thriving and growing companies, such as Blockbuster and BlackBerry, who somehow changed their way of thinking, and were overtaken by more nimble and astute peers or newcomers, like Netflix and Apple. The best growth alternatives may still come from “entrepreneur thinking” about alternate solutions and divergent paths.

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8 Growth Practices That Every Startup Needs To Follow

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Based on my experience advising new businesses, all of the principles that he outlines, including the following subset which I generalize here, should be taken to heart by every entrepreneur: Give customers fewer things that matter more. Pick a single metric that is the focus for all growth. Less is more. Marty Zwilling.

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9 Key Issues That Can Support Your Breakthrough Ideas

Startup Professionals Musings

The entrepreneurs I see are always talking about “disruptive innovation” ideas, but the plans I read are more often linear extensions of a current hot offering, like one more social network with the best of Facebook and Twitter, one more dating site dimension, or another “must-have” accessory for smartphones.

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9 Key Tests For Innovation Potential In Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

The entrepreneurs I see are always talking about “disruptive innovation” ideas, but the plans I read are more often linear extensions of a current hot offering, like one more social network with the best of Facebook and Twitter, one more dating site dimension, or another “must-have” accessory for smartphones.

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Hard Questions Spark Breakthrough Business Thinking

Startup Professionals Musings

The entrepreneurs I see are always talking about “disruptive innovation” ideas, but the plans I read are more often linear extensions of a current hot offering, like one more social network with the best of Facebook and Twitter, one more dating site dimension, or another “must-have” accessory for smartphones. Marty Zwilling.

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Interview with Michele Ruiz and Dan Gould, BiasSync

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Los Angeles-based BiasSync (www.biassync.com) was founded by three, very experienced serial entrepreneurs-- Michele Ruiz (broadcast journalism), Robin Richards (CareerArc, Internships.com, NTI Group, MP3), and Dan Gould (former VP of Technology for Tinder). Here, we wanted to build a Netflix-like experience for this.

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Interview with Zach James and Rich Raddon, MOVIECLIPS.COM

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Our metrics show that when people watch chips, they increase their tendency to want to watch that feature length film. We've seen the proliferation of streaming through Netflix, Amazon, and others, and as people get into the streaming features business, that income can help make up the income being lost in DVD sales. more) READ MORE>>.

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