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I Can Find Research to Prove Anything

January 8, 2013

One of these days I’m going to start a new consulting company based on the sad truth that in today’s world a good search turns up nice-looking data to prove anything.  For example, you want eggs to be bad for you? We’ll find research to prove it. No? You want eggs to be good for [...]

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5 Signs of Startup Success, 5 Signs of Startup Failure.

July 16, 2012

Excellent: Cheryl Conner starts her 5 Sure Signs A Startup Firm Will Succeed list on Forbes.com with this one:  1. Has Validated Customers. This is one of the core rules … Do you know in advance that you have customers who are willing to pay the price you are asking for the product or service you have? … [...]

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5 Excellent Leadership Tips for 2012

December 23, 2011

As the year draws down, a good time for reflection, I’d like to call your attention to Mike Myatt‘s 5 Leadership Tips for 2012 on Forbes.com, posted yesterday. I think he’s 5-for-5 on this. Here are my three favorites: Family. Mike says “If you’re struggling with the family balance thing my advice is simple: don’t attempt [...]

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5 Good Posts for Friday July 1

July 1, 2011

I need your help: Can you suggest a way to give a theme and a title to a series of Friday posts listing good posts and recommended links I’ve seen from the last week? My title here is too dull. I’m not nearly good enough at titles. I don’t want to do this every Friday, [...]

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Should Your Strategy Be Constantly Changing?

June 21, 2011

I read Holly Green’s Shifting from Strategic Planning to Strategic Agility, on Forbes.com the other day. Ok, agile sounds good for a business. And the world does change rapidly, too. But what about this, from something I wrote about 10 years ago: Better a mediocre strategy, consistently applied over time, than a series of brilliant [...]

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Smoggy Mourning in Mexico City

February 18, 2010

That’s not a misspelling in my title; it’s on purpose. The play on words: morning because Mexico City is usually smoggiest in the mornings; and mourning because it used to be such a great place to live, and isn’t at all anymore.  Sure, everything changes, but Mexico City has gone from being a delightful place [...]

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Interesting Points, But Winning a Business Plan Competition is Still Better Than Losing One

December 1, 2009

This morning I can’t resist writing about Vivek Wadhwa’s Winner’s Curse post on TechCrunch last weekend. Odd combination: it’s interesting, thoughtful, well-written, about a subject near and dear to my heart, and, at least in the title, wrong. In the full title of his fascinating post, he says losing a business school business plan competition [...]

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Business Plan Contest: You Be the Judge

November 11, 2009

Five very interesting young businesses, five excellent presentations, six judges with questions, and all of it available as online video, where you can watch the whole thing and vote for the winners. What I like best about the Forbes annual $100K Boost Your Business contest is that it is open to everybody. I love being [...]

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5 Reasons Why I Like Forbes’ $100K ‘Boost Your Business’ Business Plan Contest

October 20, 2009

I’m leaving for New York city today to participate as a judge tomorrow in the Forbes.com Boost Your Business business plan contest. This will be my second year. I love it. I like judging business plan contests. I’ve judged the two big contests in Texas, both the University of Texas Moot Corp and the Rice University [...]

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