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Why Startups Fail: Six Issues to Avoid

Leading Blog

The result is Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success. The four elements in the diamond collectively specify the opportunity : what the venture will offer and to whom; its plan for technology and operations; its marketing approach; and how the venture will make money. Good Idea, Bad Bedfellows.

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The 5 Habits of Mind that Self-Made Billionaires Possess

Leading Blog

Most of us think like what authors John Sviokla and Mitch Cohen call Performers because their success is tracked through performance. Imagine what Atari might have achieved if Steve Jobs had stayed there to develop the first mass market personal computer. Leadership Partnership. Producer overwhelmingly do not go it alone.

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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

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RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009). They look at 9 Building Blocks that form the business canvas.

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The $300 House: The Marketing Challenge

Harvard Business Review

Its success will depend on the ability to create a market for the idea. It lies in engaging directly and experientially with individuals, not getting distribution in front of markets. The broad, mass market approach of a Western marketer is foolish because there is no mass market in places where villages are the market.

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Don't Draw the Wrong Lessons from Better Place's Bust

Harvard Business Review

Its approach was the first to align the key actors in the ecosystem in a way that addressed the critical shortcomings — range, resale value, grid capacity — that undermine the electric car as a mass-market proposition. Note to Tesla owners: you are not the mass market).

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Why Is Capital Afraid of Cities?

Harvard Business Review

This post is part of a three-week series exploring the re-invention of the social infrastructure of cities, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. A successful company is invaluable to a neighborhood, but it takes work to put a value on that company's future. They're not mean-spirited.

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IBM at 100: How to Outlast Depression, War, and Competition

Harvard Business Review

This innovation came to market in 1964 and quickly became a smash success, setting the standard for the industry and greatly expanding computer use around the globe. Sold heavily by IBM's famous sales force, the company's product created the first truly mass market for the personal computer.