This morning my daughter told me about a dream she had last night. She was a unicorn learning to fly – yes, apparently there are unicorns that fly. 🙂 Now the dream ended in the classic nightmare, falling and waking up covered in sweat. My immediate response was, “Well, if you are a unicorn that […]
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Have you ever created a business plan and realised they were a waste of time? Or to put it in the words of Steve Blank: “… no business plan survives first contact with customers.” Now the problem I see with business plans is that they are usually a snapshot of what you want to
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Let’s face it “Saving Time” is a concept that doesn’t work. Did you ever wonder at the end of the day where all the time went? Did you notice that someone who spent all day on the couch might be asking that same question, as does the busy manager who hurried from one meeting to
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Do you know the difference between Innovation Accounting and Innovative Accounting? Hint: Knowing the difference could keep you out of jail. Seriously, if you want to learn how that knowledge could make all the difference for a start-up business or any disruptive business, you might want to watch this video. I would love to learn
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I stumbled over a mindboggling fact the other day. I read a quote from a report surveying 10,500 office workers in 11 countries, saying that one quarter of their annual work time was spent doing repetitive tasks in the office like manually inputting data, managing e-mail, and filing documents. Now think about that for a
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Meet Susan. I met her at a founder’s summit last month. She describes herself as a fitness instructor – but after talking to her for a few minutes, I realised she is so much more. As so many fitness instructors, she worked in a gym – eight-hour shifts to give advice and special courses to
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A question that I get asked a lot is about product-market fit. This usually refers to the point in time at which a startup company begins to find an increasing number of customers in the market that resonate with its product. For the company, this marks the transition from the “startup or survival phase” to
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