CEO

Deadly Meetings in the Workplace. You're Pricing It Wrong: Software Pricing Demystified. Advertisement Pricing your own product is always a tricky proposition, and the more critical the price is to your product’s success, the more difficult it is to set.

It’s easy to look at another product and say how much you would be willing to pay for it, but how can you know how much people would be willing to pay for yours? There are no absolute truths or perfect formulas for finding the best price, assuming that the “best price” even exists. Instead, take a structured approach to finding a good starting point, and improve it through feedback and testing.

But first, you need to understand what the best price actually is. Riding the Demand Curve When we price a product, our goal (assuming we’re running a business) is to maximize revenue. Economic theory suggests that as we raise the price, the number of sales will drop. 8 Things Your Employees Need Most. Pay is important.

But pay only goes so far. Getting a raise is like buying a bigger house; soon, more becomes the new normal. Higher wages won’t cause employees to automatically perform at a higher level. Commitment, work ethic, and motivation are not based on pay. To truly care about your business, your employees need these eight things—and they need them from you: 1. Autonomy and latitude breed engagement and satisfaction. Whenever possible, give your employees the freedom to work they way they work best. 2. Without a goal to shoot for, work is just work. 3. Let employees know what you want to achieve, for your business, for customers, and even your community. Caring starts with knowing what to care about—and why. 4. Few things are more stressful than not knowing what your boss expects from one minute to the next.

When standards change make sure you communicate those changes first. 5. 14 Ways To Be A Great Startup CEO. Everyone thinks that being a startup CEO is a glamorous job or one that has to be a ton of fun.

That's what I now refer to as the "glamour brain" speaking aka the startup life you hear about from the press. You know the press articles I'm talking about... the ones that talk about how easy it is to raise money, how many users the company is getting, and how great it is to be CEO. Very rarely do you hear about what a bitch it is to be CEO and how it's not for every founder that wants to be an entrepreneur. I've spent a lot of time recently thinking about what it takes to be a great Startup CEO that is also a founder.

Here are some of the traits I've found. Work from home. Don't Settle for One Network: Build Three - Management Tip of the Day - May 03, 2011. How To Build a Web Startup – Lean LaunchPad Edition. If you’re an experienced coder and user interface designer you think nothing is easier than diving into Ruby on Rails, Node.js and Balsamiq and throwing together a web site.

(Heck, in Silicon Valley even the waiters can do it.) But for the rest of us mortals whose eyes glaze over at the buzzwords, the questions are, “How do I get my great idea on the web? What are the steps in building a web site?” And the most important question is, “How do I use the business model canvas and Customer Development to test whether this is a real business?” My first attempt at helping students answer these questions was by putting together the Startup Tools Page - a compilation of available web development tools.

So today, I offer my next attempt. How To Build a Web Startup – The Lean LaunchPad Edition Here’s the step-by-step process we suggest our students use in our Lean LaunchPad classes. (Use the Startup Tools Page as the resource for tool choices) Step 1: Set Up Team Logistics Step 2. For non-coders: Choosing A Minimally Viable Co-Founder. Questionable Methods. Product Development: 9 Steps for Creative Problem Solving [INFOGRAPHIC] Ronald Brown is a successful startup CEO with an extensive background in technology and consumer marketing.

His new book, Anticipate. The Architecture of Small Team Innovation and Product Success is available via iTunes, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo. Creativity is the main prerequisite for innovation. However, our culture emphasizes critical thinking to the near exclusion of creative thinking (although it was the key to success in the Information Age). Today's business is dominated by global complexity and commoditization. What constitutes creative thinking? In business, the process of generating and commercializing a good idea has been honed by creative industries for more than a hundred years. It’s the CEO’s job to email the first 1000 signups. Until you’ve passed a thousand signups, the CEO should be personally emailing every new user.

I’m going to cover: PracticalitiesHow to mess it upCommon objectionsGoals, perks & benefits The signup thank you note. Ideal Final Result (IFR) - MindTree Blog.