Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 26, 2022

your YouTube channel, Instagram page, or blog. Why Channels Matter More Than Products The number one reason why I believe in a channel-first strategy rather than a product-first one is because: You’re more likely to fail from the lack of a distribution channel than from an inability to build a product.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 28, 2016

Having the right people in the right seats can hone your operations and output, with the right processes and strategy. Founders of fast-growth companies often find that a peer group doubles as a strategy session and therapy. For business owners who dislike consultants, peer groups offer an alternative.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Launching today, wrkfrce will offer content, job postings and consulting services to help workers understand how to adapt and thrive in a remote-work environment. The strategy of targeted, niche advice blogs has worked well in categories that never lose importance, such as personal finance or mental wellness.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 14, 2018

Better still, you consult an expert to mentor you. Before you start operating your business, consult with a lawyer to make sure you are within legal bounds. What are the available strategies to establish good relations with them, entice them toward your business, and make them loyal clients? Research is required.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Staying attuned to these changes and being willing to pivot our strategies has been instrumental in our growth. Lead generation, consulting on the phone, following up with emails within the same day—all of it matters. For me, that meant constantly seeking out professional guidance by investing in consultants early on.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Speak with a marketing or branding consultant before making any major shifts or changes in your company. Even if you cannot hire a full-blown marketing agency, just partner with a good consultant who can assist you with ensuring that your “new” branding goals and efforts will still help you reach your customers and drive revenue.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 10, 2012

She’s a Brown undergrad, Wharton MBA, ex strategy consultant and ex Googler. You know now why I would take her advice for new employees. ” She gave me a special one-time permission to write about her in a blog post so I could publish the advice she gave our friend. General Advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I was reading Chris Dixon’s blog tonight. I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. My first job after college was as a developer at Andersen Consulting. I had to laugh a bit reading it. THE FIVE C’S.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 6, 2016

By Will Swayne, an EO Brisbane member and Head of Strategy at lead generation agency Marketing Results. These might include activities such as: Publishing blog articles more regularly. While this strategy is becoming more popular, I still see many, many businesses not following this model (or executing it poorly). I know I do.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Consulting and blogging are some of the best businesses to start with little money , since they require very little initial investment and can be scaled up easily. If your company offers legal advice, there’s no need to employ a full-time copywriter. Other products, however, can put excessive strain on your resources.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

When we interviewed him last July , Hughes explained that he would refer leads to EveryDeveloper when they needed to sort out their content strategy. Our content strategy plans remove the guesswork and enable companies to produce content developers want to read. Hughes was therefore happy to recommend DuVander via our experts survey.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 9, 2020

A version of this article originally appeared on Johal’s LinkedIn blog. . appeared first on Octane Blog – The official blog of the Entrepreneurs' Organization. Contributed by Shawn Johal, business growth coach, leadership speaker and co-founder of DALS Lighting, Inc. Fear is powerful, but it can also be blinding.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

This is an updated post from my ongoing series on Startup Advice that I learned from founding two companies. . Were their consultants? It’s one of my favorite blog posts. I had planned to blog about it at the time but I waited 2 days and the whole world blogged about it so I didn’t pile on.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. Keeping a blog has been great because so many entrepreneurs have written me with questions about their companies and I’ve gotten to know many of you personally through the process. Much bad came out of this period including my cynicism for consultants. Let me explain.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

Because more technology people probably read startup blogs I’m guessing this post will come under more scrutiny. Whenever I meet a team that had a consulting firm (even a great one) build their product it’s an immediate “pass&# from me. Program Manager – This title almost sounds like a consultant’s job.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

This is an updated post from my ongoing series on Startup Advice that I learned from founding two companies. . Were their consultants? It’s one of my favorite blog posts. I had planned to blog about it at the time but I waited 2 days and the whole world blogged about it so I didn’t pile on.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 27, 2021

30 Smart Decisions to Scale Your Ecommerce Business In 2022 Strategies that helped us grow a company from $1 million to $68 million in only nine months Photo by Joshua Sukoff on Unsplash If you’re a new entrepreneur and/or an ecommerce business owner, then you know what it’s like when you hit that wall. Anyway, where were we.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth. And often it is hard to motivate people to take on big tasks like strategy re-evaluations because everybody is busy doing investment work. That certainly works well for some.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 31, 2017

In the first part of this blog, William shares how to assess your needs for capital and explains potential sources for raising it. Utilizing a financial model is a meaningful analysis, as strategy and finance go hand in hand. The post Recruiting Outside Investors Part I: Capital Considerations appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

She not only became an expert in SEO, she began consulting in SEO to continue to make ends meet and she became a speaker on the topic. So Tracy began keeping a blog about … (what else?) If you haven’t read my blog posts on why Tracy chose the right strategy it’s worth a read.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

Since I answer this all the time anyway I thought it might make an interesting blog post. I worked nearly a decade as a consultant – first building large scale IT systems and then doing strategy consulting. We sit on the sidelines – The down side of VC is that exact same as I remember in consulting.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

I recently wrote a blog post here in which I argued that the best VC meetings are discussions and not sales pitches. A few weeks ago I sat through two very contrasting presentations and wrote this blog post right afterward. ’s strategy and missteps. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The best predictor for failed Salesforce implementation is whether or not the firm uses a consultant with real experience of private equity to setup and maintain the platform. If you try and do it yourself or use a generalist consultant, you’re taking a big risk.”. He recommended: . downloadable white papers, models, etc).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

By now everybody has a big stake in your success and would like to feel consulted on the major decisions you’re making with their money. But if you don’t think through your long-term strategy you can open yourself up to a host of problems that kill companies: Spending money too quickly and running into cashflow traps.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Content pages (blog posts, informational articles, videos, etc.). If you’re the local butcher, chances are your customers are on Facebook or Twitter, and if you run a local business consulting service, they’re likely on LinkedIn. Some ideas include: Informational blog posts. The homepage. The shipping and returns policy.

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EntreWorks Consulting

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

An interesting new study from the University of New Hampshire’s Carsey Institute , entitled “My Advice. Effective strategies should include economic diversification, expanded efforts to spawn new locally-owned small businesses, and investments to improve local housing stock. EntreWorks Blog. A Tale of Two Rural Places.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

You know, the weird thing, Derek, and I should probably let you speak some time, but I was deeply technical when I went into Andersen consulting, and I got paid much less than engineers who graduated, because I had a degree in economics. We don’t take tech guys in the strategy consulting group.”

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David Teten VC

MAY 16, 2017

I particularly like OpenLP.com , Origins , and the Raise blog , all of which include content from multiple LPs. . Matthew Craig-Greene of consultancy MJ Hudson points out, “Most public plans publish meeting minutes, and these can be a very interesting place to find information on manager selection. Relationship Science.

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Jason Malki

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

I spent a decade consulting for Fortune 500’s with massive customer data sets?—?data Most of my experience is in B2B SaaS, so this advice is tailored to founders in a similar space: #1 Hire an experienced leadership team to define the culture and vision A brand new startup only has one asset?—?the I bet the answer is no.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

My first job after graduation was with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). The World Wide Web was now being rolled out everywhere and every project was considering its Intranet strategy. That increasingly strategy projects needed geeks. I was a strategy consultant. My starting salary was $27,000. Not operational.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 4, 2019

You probably heard the advice for entrepreneurs that “failing to plan is planning to fail.” Fortunately, recent research in these fields shows how you can use pragmatic strategies to address these dangerous judgment errors , whether in your professional life , your relationships, your shopping choices , or other areas in life.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

Understanding “The Funding Angle” I sit at enough board meetings to hear conflicting advice given to entrepreneurs about how to handle PR and announcements at startups. I think many board members (including VCs) were trained 10+ years ago when life was very different and their advice often comes from an outdated lens.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

They wanted advice. I gave them advice I don’t think they were expecting from a VC, “Don’t raise venture capital for this business. It is advice I give entrepreneurs often as I have written here on why most businesses should never raise VC. Even tech blogs know this. This team is talented.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

The first three tools are only relevant if you’re going to generate significant content yourself: Teten.com , my blog and content marketing strategy. I typically publish essays in an established media venue, and then cross-post it on my blog. Following Fred Wilson’s advice, I want to build my own platform.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 2, 2016

Recently, I had an opportunity to chat with Thomas about his experiences and I asked him to write about SMB SaaS channel distribution for this blog because his perspective on the opportunity is unique. Today, he’s replicating that success at Dropbox. After all, he’s built the most success SMB SaaS channel ever. by Thomas Hansen.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

I wrote a blog post related to this called Is it Time to Earn or to Learn? I ran a team of 14 people (12 Japanese, 1 German and 1 Turk … both of whom were fluent in Japanese) who produced an Internet strategy for the board of Sony. I had a nice severance check and secured a job with Andersen Consulting very quickly.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2011

I'm a strong believer in having a board, even at a seed stage, to report to and set strategy with. VC Blogger Fanboy This geek reads all the blogs religiously and is a lean startup ninja. Seems like a good pick, except that every piece of advice given comes from their own experience--experience that is all during a a single up cycle.

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