Business Strategy Tag Archive

Find your “EST”

(Extracted from The Pumpkin Plan by Mike Michalowicz) Find your “EST.” When you’re the “est” of something—the biggest, the brightest, the smelliest—you can create your own curve. To find your “est,”...

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Clients only think about what they want and not the resources you need

(Extracted from The Pumpkin Plan by Mike Michalowicz) Clients only think about what they want. They don’t think about overhead, resources, brand integrity or your long-range planning. You as the entrepreneur have to...

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A common label doesn’t differentiate you from your competitors

(Excerpt from The Pumpkin Plan by Mike Michalowicz) A broker, a business coach, a lawyer, a whatever…these are all labels. These labels put you in a generic category, making it easy for clients and prospects to...

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Say no to money that’s outside of your business focus

(Extracted from Built to Sell by John Warrillow) Stopping yourself from accepting projects outside of your scalable product or service is the toughest part of creating a business that can thrive without you. You will...

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10x better

(Excerpt from Zero to One by Peter Thiel) Companies must strive for 10x better because merely incremental improvements often end up meaning no improvement at all for the end user. Suppose you develop a new wind turbine...

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7 questions every business must answer

(Excerpt from Zero to One by Peter Thiel) seven questions that every business must answer: The Engineering QuestionCan you create breakthrough technology instead of incremental improvements? The Timing QuestionIs now...

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How to get your business idea?

(Excerpt from Zero to One by Peter Thiel) There are two kinds of secrets: secrets of nature and secrets about people. Natural secrets exist all around us; to find them, one must study some undiscovered aspect of the...

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You can change the world with careful planning

(Excerpt from Zero to One by Peter Thiel) The greatest thing Jobs designed was his business. Apple imagined and executed definite multi-year plans to create new products and distribute them effectively. Forget...

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Lean Startup is not enough. You need a bold plan.

(Excerpt from Zero to One by Peter Thiel) Even in engineering-driven Silicon Valley, the buzzwords of the moment call for building a “lean startup” that can “adapt” and “evolve” to an ever-changing...

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Be the last mover

(Extracted from Zero to One by Peter Thiel) You’ve probably heard about “first mover advantage”: if you’re the first entrant into a market, you can capture significant market share while competitors...

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