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Customer Development Upstartist Diaries

The Buy Button Challenge

What do all successful consumer companies have in common? One thing for sure: a lot of easily accessible buy buttons. Those buy buttons could be on your devices or even offered by physical vendors near you.  A humble bánh cuốn vendor in Ho Chi Minh City could have their buy buttons in their store, on […]

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Book Trainer Customer Development

The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick

You shouldn’t ask anyone whether your business is a good idea – especially your Mom.

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First Things First Upstartist Diaries

333 Productivity for Distracted Solopreneurs

Limits focus, so set yours!

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Customer Development Upstartist Diaries

Daring to Suck is the Quickest Way to Learn

So why not make it fun, expected and social with “challenge masterminds?”

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Energy Management Managing You Upstartist Diaries

Vacation is Serious Business

Guilt-free time off should be planned – and required.

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Profit Models Upstartist MBA Value Creation

The Art of Profitability

22 different models of profitability

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Marketing The Lean Startup Upstartist MBA Value Creation

The Lean Startup

The Lean Startup Summary The Lean Startup is a human institution designed to create a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty. The Lean Startup takes lean manufacturing concepts and applies them to the process of innovation in uncertain environments. The big idea is to figure out the right thing to build – […]

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Business Ideas Business Models Marketing Upstartist MBA Value Creation

Evaluating Your Business Ideas

8 frameworks to evaluate, structure and refine your business ideas.

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Business Ideas Marketing Upstartist MBA Value Creation

7 Ways to Generate Your Next Big Business Idea

My observation is that most entrepreneurs fall into 2 camps: those that solve their own problems (i.e. “scratch your own itch”) or those who seek exploitable or underserved markets (i.e. “markets matter most”). Here are 7 techniques to help you get ideas no matter what your disposition.

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Getting Organized Impact Managing You Upstartist MBA

Getting Organized

The goal of any organization system should be to have a clear head and feeling of relaxed control.

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First Things First Impact Managing You Upstartist MBA

Do First Things First

4 frameworks to stay focused on your most important tasks.

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Impact Managing You Strengths & Interests Upstartist MBA

Build On Your Strengths & Interests

Recognizing your strengths & interests and going where they are rewarded is the most effective way to get results.

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Energy Management Impact Managing You Upstartist MBA

Achieving Flow

How can we achieve that blissful feeling of focused attention when concentration deepens and we lose track of time and ourselves?  When we’re less concerned with the result and simply enjoying the task at hand?

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Energy Management Impact Managing You Upstartist MBA

Riding Oscillation: How to Build Stress and Recovery into your Work Schedule

In order to maintain peak performance, we must take our time off seriously. 

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Energy Management Impact Managing You Upstartist MBA

The 4 Dimensions of Energy: Physical, Emotional, Mental and Spiritual

If any of these dimensions is under-stressed or over-stressed our performance suffers.

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Energy Management Impact Managing You Upstartist MBA

Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance

When is your biological prime time?

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Energy Management Impact Managing You Upstartist MBA

Manage Your Energy and Attention

“Energy, not time, is the fundamental currency of high performance.” – Jim Loehr This week we attack a topic that is critically important yet rarely – if ever – taught in business schools: managing your energy and attention for peak performance.  Most of my source material comes from Dr. Jim Loehr’s pioneering book, The Power […]

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Habits Impact Managing You Upstartist MBA

Work on your Habits

“Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.” –
Benjamin Franklin