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The Four Tenets of Conscious Capitalism

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Kent Gregoire is an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member and founder of Symphony Advantage, which helps CEOs achieve ongoing success through strategic thinking, advice and planning. Example: In 2009, Southwest Airlines decided to go against industry standards that were shifting toward fees for checked luggage.

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Why generic marketing approaches don’t work on software developers

TechCrunch

When we interviewed him last July , Hughes explained that he would refer leads to EveryDeveloper when they needed to sort out their content strategy. The idea for this book dates back to my time at ProgrammableWeb (2009-2014). There are about a dozen of us, split between content strategy and production. The main takeaway?

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VC Corner: Ann Miura-Ko, Floodgate

Startup Grind

Taskrabbit; Nov 2009 What is one question you ask yourself before investing in a company? Favorite business book, blog, podcast? What is one piece of advice you’d give every founder? The strategy to minimize loss is not the strategy to win. Execute on the strategy to win. What struck you about them?

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

I asked some of the participating VCs, and they told me their attorneys had figured out a way to keep their stealth-mode companies stealthy.Yes, this strategy is not for every company. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups. Swipely – Blippy competitor founded by TellMe founder, Angus Davis, in Fall 2009.

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

I was reading Danielle Morrill’s blog post today on whether one’s “ Startup Burn Rate is Normal. In a world where the economy only heads in one direction (read: 2009-2014) most investors & entrepreneurs forget to pay attention to gross burn. But this strategy great depends on point 3. Profitability.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

And then I got into strategy consulting, and I wanted to go into strategy consulting, and they said, “Yeah, but you’re a tech guy. We don’t take tech guys in the strategy consulting group.” Probably the internet helped because they needed internet skills in their strategy group.

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

Both Sides of the Table

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. They wanted advice. Even tech blogs know this.

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