Entrepreneurs

  • Entrepreneurial Pivoting During Disasters

    Entrepreneur, Prepare to Pivot

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    SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) came around 2002. It was right at the end of the dot-com implosion. For...

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  • Distilling an elevator pith is like polishing a diamond

    Polishing Your Business Narrative

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    Your business idea is like a diamond hauled from the dirt. You have to clean it off and polish...

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  • Nothing is impossible for an entrepreneur who faces challenges

    Enjoy Adversity

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    My marketing director was into martial arts, and always trained with someone at least 10% heavier and three inches...

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  • Small business planning for recessions

    How small businesses can plan for the next cyclical downturn

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    “Economists have predicted twenty-three of the last four recessions.” This ancient joke has a bit of wisdom to it....

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  • Alpha, Beta Leadership

    Alpha, Beta, Blended Leadership

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    Have you ever watched a wild stallion? They effortlessly switch between being rather tender nurturing of their harem and...

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  • How to grow your startup wisely

    Startup Scaling

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    Anyone who has gone rock climbing knows that scaling a wall is hard, takes a long time, and if...

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  • Entrepreneur Littigation

    You Will Be Sued

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    “You can’t call yourself an Adult American until you have been sued at least once.” That is my Marketing...

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  • Leadership Horizons in Business

    Looking Over Horizons

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    Great business leaders seem to look into the future, to perform magic. But they are not magicians. They simply...

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  • Taking business risks

    Enjoy Risk

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    Some things scare the pants off me, but most things don’t. You will never see me skydiving, but speaking...

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  • Employee Performance Metrics, Innovation

    Performance Metrics and Innovation

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    There is a natural conflict between standard employee performance metrics and innovation. Being Silicon Valley’s longest serving CEO I...

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  • Techniques to Overcome Fear in the Entrepreneurial Journey

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    One of the entrepreneur’s first and most recurring challenges – a challenge to the heart, a challenge to passion...

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  • Exporting Silicon Valley

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    It is time to export Silicon Valley. Several intersecting trends make this a necessity. The Silicon Valley success formula...

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  • Profit from experience

    Six Steps to Surviving Three Years

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    The odds of your startup being around three years from now are not good. Statics show that about nine...

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  • Tech, disruption and policy

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    To disrupt is to make significant change. This is where technology reigns and why facilitating disruption should be public...

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  • failure and success in business

    Five Plus Steps to Success

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    Leave it to engineers to reduce the formula for success to a mathematical equation. Ps = 1 – Pf...

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