Good Post-Mortem Questions Spark Learning
For startups, conducting post-mortems with customers helps crystallize learning, improve products, and strengthen trust.
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Validate your MVP & Value Proposition Bootcamp
How do you validate your MVP? Testing an MVP involves launching the simplest functional version of the product and observing how users interact with it. The goal is to assess usability, gather feedback, and analyze behavior to learn what features matter most and which assumptions hold true.
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Checklist For a Thought Leadership Talk or Article
An author’s checklist for a thought leadership presentation or article that covers clarifying your purpose and core insight and preparing for engagement.
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Sales KPIs for Startups
For salespeople, KPIs must be connected to revenue like the number of leads generated and how those leads convert through the sales funnel.
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The 7-Figure Solo Founder: What to Build, Delegate, and Let Go
Serial entrepreneur Igor Krasnykh offers a briefing on how to become a 7-figure solo founder by moving from scrappy operator to standard operating procedures.
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Building and Leveraging a Partner Network
A startup begins with limited resources and credibility. Building and leveraging a partner network will add capabilities and spur growth.
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April K. Mills on “Accelerate Results”
April K. Mills will shares some simple tactics we can all use to accelerate our results.
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Bootstrappers’ Roundtable: Entrepreneurs Who Eat Problems for Breakfast®
Founders come together at the bootstrappers’ roundtable to share their toughest challenges, their hard-won lessons, and their moments of breakthrough. It’s an early morning gathering where entrepreneurs eat problems for breakfast.
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Jeff Allison: How to Drive Innovation and Meet Commitments
Innovation requires experimentation that allows for the possibility of failure but the whole point of creating a program commitment process is to avoid failure.
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Podcasting Success: How Chris Christensen Built a Thriving Business
Podcast listening is growing, especially among younger audiences. Chris Christensen shares his growth strategies for a thriving business.
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Coworking in Silicon Valley: Innovation Hub for Entrepreneurs
Here are some of our favorite coworking spaces.
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Wolfgang Huber Describes Bootstrapping Matrix Requirements
Wolfgang Huber offers lessons learned from bootstrapping Matrix Requirements into leader in medical device documentation software.
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Alex Panait on Current Trends and Possible Futures for AI
I had a thought-provoking conversation with Alex Panait of Mission Automate on current trends and possible futures for AI applications.
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Prep for 2025: Bootcamps on Customer Discovery & Development
Prepare for 2025 With Bootcamps on Customer Discovery & Getting More Customers Today, Oct-1-2024, is the start of the fourth quarter of 2024; it is time to close out the objectives you set for this year and start planning how you will grow in 2025. To help you get a jump on next year, we
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Unlock Your Strategic Advantage with Curiosity and Conversation
Pairing expertise with curiosity and conversation to stay ahead of the competition.
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AI in Action: Practical Automation by Alex Panait
Alex Panait provides a high-level discussion of AI use cases and explores current AI tools, examples of prompt engineering, and addresses cautionary tales, particularly around AI model hallucinations.
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Newsletter August 2024: Startup’s Mission
A startup’s mission defines the purpose, values, and goals binding founders together. Commit to a mission helps to bring your vision to life.
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Building Better Startups with TPS and Lean Principles
TPS and Lean Principles align production with customer demand to minimize inventory, improve cash flow, and foster true efficiency.
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Mapping the Path from Idea to Revenue
We advise startups to follow a five-step approach to map their path from idea to revenue: validating the idea, validating the market, validating the offer, building the product, and building a repeatable sales process.
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Paul Scott’s expert guidance on the SBIR grant process
Paul Scott’s expert guidance on the SBIR grant process, from concept paper to full proposal.
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