I had a thought-provoking conversation with Alex Panait of Mission Automate on current trends and possible futures for AI applications.
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Prepare for 2025 With Bootcamps on Customer Discovery & Getting More Customers Today, Oct-1-2024, is the start of the fourth quarter of 2024; it is time to close out the objectives you set for this year and start planning how you will grow in 2025. To help you get a jump on next year, we
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Quotes for entrepreneurs curated in September 2024 on a theme of coordination, collaboration, and teamwork.
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This is based on some emails and conversations with a successful client who had grown his business but was afraid to take a vacation because he was not delegating very effectively to his team.
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Some suggestions for how to value an equity offer from a startup as part of a decision on whether to join.
Q: How Do I Value an Equity Offer From a Startup? Read More »
Working with family can be challenging. A young man asks “how can I help my father?” He can start by appreciating his father’s accomplishments.
Q: How Can I Help My Father Grow His Business? Read More »
Pairing expertise with curiosity and conversation to stay ahead of the competition.
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There are many reason it can be difficult to get prospects interested in conversations, much less your product. Here are a few along with a suggested sequence of steps to determine their needs.
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My brother is flying in tonight for a visit. It’s his way of reclaiming Nine-Eleven. He’s done it several times now.
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Quotes for entrepreneurs curated in August 2024 on a theme of “Do It Now–sometimes later never comes.”
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Learn from other entrepreneurs’ mistakes, you don’t have enough time to make them all on your own.
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In “Modern Arms and Free Men,” Vannevar Bush offers insights into how the US leveraged its scientific and engineering talent for World War 2.
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A cofounder can make a huge difference in your rate of progress in getting your startup off the ground. But it’s better to get started on your own than wait until you find a cofounder.
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You don’t hear it as much in 2024 but “growth at all costs” was common advice for entrepreneurs in as you did 2013-2022 (and 1996 to 2001). Here are our reasons by we don’t recommend it for bootstrappers.
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In a world where bigger often seems better, there’s a compelling argument to be made for the power of starting small.
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Alex Panait provides a high-level discussion of AI use cases and explores current AI tools, examples of prompt engineering, and addresses cautionary tales, particularly around AI model hallucinations.
AI in Action: Practical Automation by Alex Panait Read More »
Some lessons learned on how delegating enables growth, shared by a solo founder who is now scaling his business with contractors.
Delegating Enables Growth: A Solo Founder’s Experience Read More »
Sean Murphy and Etienne Garbugli offer tips on selecting the perfect niche for your startups and take questions from a live audience.
The Science of Targeting: How Startups Select the Perfect Niche Read More »
Startup founders can greatly enhance their effectiveness if they act like a doctor: elicit symptoms, offer a diagnosis, suggest a prescription and provide a prognosis.
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Eleven maxims from Francesco Guicciardini that offer helpful advice for entrepreneurs on making decisions and managing risk.
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