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7 Steps to Getting Your Startup Story Right

Rajesh Setty

Nothing can replace the power of actual experience but being prepared and equipped will take that experience to a whole new level. Gamifying will accelerate the process of adoption and frictionless transfer of your beliefs about the offering. In essence, your offering should become part of their life (where it makes sense, of course).

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business Review

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup.

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The Most Innovative Companies Don’t Worry About Consensus

Harvard Business Review

Consensus is a powerful tool. Nick’s company appeared to understand the value of his experiment… but their process got in the way. Again, consensus can be a powerful tool. Consensus can be used to ensure multiple perspectives are looked at in any decision process. It’s a powerful tool, but it’s not for every occasion.

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How GE Stays Young

Harvard Business Review

That includes learning from the outside and striving to adopt certain start-up practices, with a focus on three key management processes: (1) resource allocation that nurtures future businesses, (2) faster-cycle product development, and (3) partnering with start-ups. Resource allocation: i ncubating a protected class of ideas.

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Considering a Start-Up? Think Again.

Harvard Business Review

The refrain is all too familiar: If you want to change the world and get rich in the process, then just go for it. In The Lean Start-Up , Eric Ries talked about vanity metrics — numbers that create the illusion of success, rather than validate actual progress. The problem isn't what the message says, but what it doesn't.

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In Big Companies, Lean Is Only One Piece of the Puzzle

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, one of us was sitting in a room at the Harvard Business School with Eric Ries and a number of budding entrepreneurs. To us, there are few better examples at demonstrating the power of the Lean Startup. But like disruption before it, the zeitgeist around lean has in some ways grown apart from the power and purpose of the idea.

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If You Want to Lead, Read These 10 Books

Harvard Business Review

Our ability to wield power and control situations is our masculine side, while the capacity for relatedness and love is feminine. The book outlines the circumstances where you are most powerful, how to deploy these strengths as a leader, and potential pitfalls. In order to lead, you must also learn to say 'yes.' You will have your own.

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