Accelerating early stage companies




The Four Most Powerful Questions to Grow A Business

These four simple questions can help create a business with lasting

customer value  

  • What part of the customer experience is already good enough?
  • What part of the customer experience is not good enough?
  • What are the lessons about customer value from unexpected success in the market?
  • What do customers apparently not value, based on unexpected flops in the market?

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A Few Good Principles: What the Marines Can Teach Silicon Valley

THIS IS MUST READING!! For many managers, business has become a nightmare of velocity

and complexity. In the technology sector in particular, companies leap into existence and steal significant market share from established companies in a matter of weeks. As a result, companies are desperate to be nimbler.   more >>

 

Silicon Valley Needs to Return to it's National Security Roots

By late 2001, Silicon Valley had become ground zero for one of the worst economic downturns in well over a decade. And just when we thought it might get better, along came the impact of the terrorist attack on the economy and the nation.  more>>