Someone asked me the other day…what is the most important things about your business idea for a first time entrepreneur? What should you focus on? I was actually really happy to get that question, because I know what this entrepreneur was experiencing: information overload. It’s too complicated. Sometimes, us entrepreneurs that have been in this… Read more
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5 Ways to Validate a Startup Idea
Entrepreneurship may be a risky affair, but what people usually don’t consider is that as an entrepreneur, it’s important to take calculate risks. This means there’s a greater focus on reducing the risks involved by trying to predict what might happen through logic, foresight and lots and lots of market research. This article shows you… Read more
Startup Idea – What’s the Right One?
Ha ha…there isn’t any right one! Ask any seasoned entrepreneur whether ideas are important and you‘re sure to get a straight and simple reply from them- it’s not. What they will say is important, is diligent execution and unparalleled attention to the detail. So why this article about validating your startup idea, when ideas are… Read more
Getting Creative with Startup Marketing!
Marketers market a business. Maintenance marketing, we’ll call it. A startup founder has to market a startup. Traction marketing, we call this. It’s creating traction. Creating initial traction requires you to be smooth, cool, creative, imaginative, and takes a ton of energy. Kinda hard to pay a marketer (the good one’s are expensive), when you… Read more
Thinking about Your Concept
One of the most limiting beliefs surrounding a startup concept is that it stays the same. A startup concept will almost never stay the same. Chances are when you had your big idea (your startup concept), you didn’t intend for it to happen that way. It was probably just something you thought was cool..or would… Read more
An Entrepreneur Without an Idea
Hmm…an Entrepreneur without an idea or problem to solve. Sounds like a dog without a bone. The dog becomes anxious, distraught, and starts chewing on shoes, walls, and underwear. When the dog has a bone, he’s calm..focused…on a mission. Then stashes it secretly in the backyard till he’s ready to chew some more the next… Read more
How to Prove a Concept or Idea
Alot of Entrepreneurs coming into the startup world for the first time just have a fantastic idea or concept, and really don’t know what to do once they reach that point. It’s pretty simple really, the first step is proving your concept or idea is viable. But..let me back up for a second on that,… Read more
