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Advice from Warren Rustand: Put Your Head Down and Walk Into the Storm

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Rustand says he’s had calls from more than 300 business leaders at small and medium-sized companies looking for advice. In terms of pandemics, we remember avian flu (1997), SARS (2003) and MERS (2012). About a third of them have already closed their businesses, or will do so soon. The last third seems like they will make it.

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Rustic Canyon Speaks out on GaiKai Exit, Changing Nature of VC, LA Tech & More

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But my take: Gaikai had superior technology & a superior business strategy. He talked in the video about how he finds it helpful in companies to think about practical theory and frameworks for thinking about company strategy. 33:15 Have you noticed a change from 2003 to now in the “serendipity factor” of Santa Monica?

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

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This is an updated post from my ongoing series on Startup Advice that I learned from founding two companies. . In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. We assumed they would take our advice and upgrade. In the corporate world this strategy is flawed. I HATE LOSING. I hate it.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

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This is an updated post from my ongoing series on Startup Advice that I learned from founding two companies. . In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. We assumed they would take our advice and upgrade. In the corporate world this strategy is flawed. Tags: Startup Advice.

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Why You Need to Ring the Freaking Cash Register

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I remember just a decade ago in 2003 when we all laughed at how dumb people in the 90′s were talking about the race to “capture as many eyeballs as possible” before your competition. Delaying going out of business gives you way more chances at product / market fit than any other strategy I know of. Startup Advice'

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

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Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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Embrace Losing

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In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. We assumed they would take our advice and upgrade. In the corporate world this strategy is flawed. Tags: Start-up Advice. I’m talking Tom Watson at the British Open or Andy Roddick at Wimbledon. and that people should upgrade.