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How New Ideas Almost Killed Our Startup | Vinicius Vacanti To be clear, the “ideas” I’m referring to are the ones that have nothing to do with your current startup. Switching your startup’s focus to a related area based on what you’ve learned (i.e. pivoting) is a winning strategy and one that Yipit employed twice. This post also assumes that you are and have been actively working on an idea.

I read with pleasure this article. Je suis malade de mes idées mais cela se soigne ;) Merci pour avoir partagé cette méthode Patrice! by jerome_of_arabia Sep 1

5. Keep your priorities in check. “Manage the top line, which is your strategy, your people and your products, and the bottom line will follow. My model for business is the Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other’s negative tendencies in check. The Business Wisdom Of Steve Jobs | Brazen Careerist

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The Strategy Trap: Why focusing too much on strategy could be ki “They were worried that I would get bogged down in wanting to do things, not just create strategy.” - David Polinchock / @lbbinc One of the topics covered during the #LikeMinds Summit this past weekend was precisely this: The chasm between strategy and execution, especially as businesses struggle to understand how to leverage, integrate and operationalize Social Communications (what you do with social media platforms) in the coming 6-24 months.

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Preaching User-Driven Design - Ventillation But it’s better to spend a month on an idea than a year. It’s also essential that you restrict yourself to the kind of products that you could reasonably prototype (i.e., no critical low-latency component and not highly visual and not for enterprise). At Launching September (later to become Aardvark), we would fake functionality with people on the backend and see if our early users -- many who didn’t know they were using a faked prototype -- kept coming back. When users don’t click through on an invite, they wouldn’t want your value proposition even if you’d built it. Aardvark was the sixth idea that we tried out. But, we didn’t just stop at being user-driven in selecting an idea.

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Pivoting cdixon.org – chris dixon's blog Ask yourself: if you started over today, would you build the same product? If not, consider significant changes to what you are building. The popular word for this today is “pivoting” and I think it is apropos.

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Why Google can’t build Instagram — Scobleizer My friends are on Facebook, I don’t have a social graph even close to as good on Google. Instagram gets to use every system it wants. Google has to pay “strategy taxes.” (That’s what we called them at Microsoft).

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