Tag Archive for: Startups

Worthless Plans. Indispensable Planning.

Plans may become irrelevant. Yet, the process of planning is indispensable.

Are Your Customers “Trapped?”

When you start a small business, engage in free-market competitive thinking, and when you have a “trapped” customer base, act like you don’t.

Group Brainstorming vs. Solo Thought

Pivot or Perish?

And the thing about start-ups and slow-growth companies is that because they are spending so much time in terra incognita, in a world of unknowns and new possibilities, learning new stuff and changing the rules of competition is what the game is about.

How is your franchise fit?

Stay light. No, even lighter.

Starting out, a business is small, lean, and nimble. It is like a speedboat. Then, you begincollecting stuff, tangible and intangible. You become a yacht, soon to become a cruise ship. The bigger you get, the more energy you need to keep moving or change direction. What makes a business heavy? Long-term commitments – leases, […]

Starter

Discard the old context. Discover the new framework.

Learner Doer

This book is for those who never thought of starting a business, to those running an enterprise, for the die-hard entrepreneurs born to create and lead, and for stable, less intense business owners.
How about dreamers stuck in a rut of day jobs? They dream about getting paid for pursuing their passion. Yes. This book is for them too.