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Early-stage investors

Creating prosperity reduces poverty, not the other way round.

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Professor Explains the Fake Entrepreneur Epidemic (Interview)

Early-stage investors, startups

DO YOU KNOW WHY YOUR STARTUP IS LIKELY TO BE A BIG SUCCESS?

Virgil once proclaimed, ” Lucky is he who has been able to understand the cause of things.” Said another way, ” Lucky is he who knows WHY”. Successful start-up pundits claim to get better at predicting…

startups

Creating new market (sub)categories (3 tasks)

"There are three tasks required for creating a new category / subcategory… A firm must manage that subcategory so that it wins the subcategory battle. Subcategory energy, appeal and associations need to be conceived and communicated.…

Early-stage investors, startups

FRAMING

When people are told to not think of an elephant, they can’t get the image out of their minds. When President Nixon said he was “not a crook” what emerged was a reaffirmation that he was a crook. So, it is necessary to be disciplined…

Early-stage investors, startups