Very nice post last week by Brian McCann at Management R&D: Business for Boneheads. He makes a very good point. You can’t really interview a bunch of successful companies and reach useful conclusions that a reader can take to his…
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Growing a Business
I love metrics. Metrics in business means some specific set of numbers you measure and get measured by, ideally numbers that anybody can understand. You know you have metrics when you find yourself checking the metrics every morning, every day,…
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Do happy employees make good companies? Rob May asked this question on his businesspundit blog maybe six weeks ago. He cited research. The results were inconclusive. There seemed to be correlation between happy employees and good financial performance, but it…
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I just left a comment on John Jantsch’s excellent Duct Tape Marketing blog, an interesting post titled Sometimes You’ve Got to Burn the Boats. John is recommending building brinkmanship deadlines into your marketing *gulp*. I’ve done it but I don’t…
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In business schools, in popular blogs, in business publications, and in general discussion of starting a business, we undervalue bootstrapping. We teach starting a business as if every new business requires sophisticated venture capital. I understand how this can be…
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You can look up Philippe Kahn in Wikipedia if you want. He started Borland International on his own and took it from zero to $60+ million per year and an IPO in less than four years. Borland has been bought…
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I realize it’s a bit out of date, a 1987 b00k, but Paul Hawken’s Growing a Business is still my favorite business book. It’s the first one I recommend. Hawken tells real stories of real businesses wrapped around people doing…
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Last Fall my son Paul dealt with a potential consulting client with a website business who wanted to bring in investors. They had half a million dollars of seed money, but it was running out. “They tell me they’re looking…
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Question: I own an Irish pub [place omitted]. I do not know what is going on, but my day business is not doing well. The staff has remained the same, the atmosphere is the same, but the number of clients…
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TED (Technology, Entertainment, and Design) has opened up a new website at www.ted.com that gives the world access to some great talks and presentations. Here are some must-see short videos for anybody involved in business and/or life: Richard St. John…
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