Frameworks for projects delivery or products development are like multivitamin pills – they offer plethora of elements and compounds you can select from depending on your need or challenge. After years of practicing lean and agile frameworks I concluded that there is no conflict between the two – on the contrary, you can benefit from […]
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In previous post I’ve covered topics related to business formation and new market entry, incl. business model development, prototyping minimal viable product or service, valuating new venture, making it investable, and getting founded. In this post, I relate to a phase of company’s development following market introduction –so called growth phase. G. Duruflé, T.Hellman and
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Nowadays companies can reach valuations exceeding billions of dollars and deliver value the customers look for without even physically owning resources they trade. In times when access to resources is becoming more important than their ownership, economists debate whether we should call this phenomena a sharing economy, community marketplace, or simply uberization of everything. So
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What valuable service is not yet being provided? Answering this question is the first step toward creating a company that don’t have to bother with competitors. Peter Thiel asks this question often in Zero to One. Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, which provides wide array of unorthodox rules underlying creation of
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English word singularity means the quality of being one of a kind, and this what entrepreneurs will find in Singularity University in Silicon Valley, US. Singularity University is not a typical higher education school. Its mission is to educate, inspire and empower leaders to apply exponential technologies that address humanity’s greatest challenges. You can find
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Recently I have been delving into Starbucks Coffee Company transformation in 2008-2014, which they undertook in response to their slowing down performance in years preceding it. Starbucks is American coffeehouse chain set up in 1971 with more than 23 thousand points of sales globally as for 2015, and over 36 million fans on Facebook. Business
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In today’s discourse relating to trends impacting future of automotive industry we can distinguish several streams creating plenty of new business opportunities, for start-ups and small and medium enterprises in particular. Some of such trends is development of electric vehicles, and shift toward near zero emission engines. Electric vehicles are disruptive innovation, and as such
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Palo Alto, which name derives from old coastal redwood tree is located in Santa Clara County, US, approx. 50 km south of San Francisco, and 20km north of San Jose. The city is famous not only because of its innovative community and being headquarters to companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Facebook, or Tesla. The city is
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As a start-up enterpreneur could you imagine having direct access to mentors ready to support all aspects of your business strategy and its execution? As a mentor wouldn’t it be great to become official member of advisory board in a start-up working on breakthrough technology? There are plenty of advantages of having official
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You are organizing a teleconference, and surprisingly it doesn’t start on time, people cannot dial in, they don’t distinguish “leader code” from “participant code”, a few people know the objectives, and certainly no one knows who is really on the line Sounds familiar? If not, just look at the movie below showing how,
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