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How to be an Optimist during Tough Times

4 years ago

Startup leaders need to be optimistic, forward looking and full of hope. That much goes without saying. But how do you do optimism when times are tough, people are hurting out of loneliness and...

  • Founders
  • Innovation
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Startup surviving and thriving in a time of coronavirus!

5 years ago

Why building trust is your ‘go to’ test for emerging safely… Quick take away: if you have only 10 seconds — the secret to firstly survive and then thrive in a time of crisis is to build trust —...

  • Founders
  • Marketing Strategy
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Successful Selling and Marketing in a Time of Coronavirus

5 years ago

We’ve changed the way we shop and buy since the coronavirus lockdown — in part or in full- so how does selling respond? The shift from problem solving to ‘problem finding’ is a trend that was...

  • Marketing Strategy
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How to Save Your Scaleup

5 years ago

Don’t cut costs — be more radical if your market has suddenly stopped. 12 years ago, I was running a international scaleup as our market got wiped out by the credit crunch. Today, many high growth...

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Why Startups Stop Scaling — and How Founders Can Turn Things Around and Grow Stronger for Longer

5 years ago

We have a problem. Too many exciting startups get stuck in the ‘growth gap’ and struggle to expand rapidly. From one nation’s cohort of 2019 ‘best in class’ startups, a year later, only one of those...

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How to Assess if a Startup will Succeed

6 years ago

…how well can you answer this question: What pain / worry / fear / concern is your startup solving or removing? But why is this such a hard question to answer? For some reason - we humans seem to be...

  • Scaleup
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The Rise of the Activist Founder

6 years ago
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How mission led startups are poised to change the world… “The thing that stands out is the thing that is different” Marc Andreessen Silicon Valley investors have changed track and are looking...

  • Leadership
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  • Startup

Resilience - how to move from Survive to Thrive in the Startup World

6 years ago
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How about we end the struggle of founders creating and building startups? What if we adopt a mission to move from surviving to thriving? No matter what happens to the organisation! Interested? Read...

  • Scaleup
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Completing my own Breakthrough Canvas

6 years ago

Here’s a photo of me about to write my Breakthrough Canvas at the start of 2019. Yes, I know, as a team we designed and built The Breakthrough Canvas… …then we tested it –...

  • Scaleup
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To Quit or Not to Quit? That is the question…

6 years ago

…that keeps every entrepreneur awake at night!   Whether it is wiser to struggle on in the hope of better fortune Or, to cut your losses and exit now before all capital and Reputation is...

  • Leadership
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  • Startup

How to Overcome Co-Founder Fights and Get Your Startup Scaling Again…

7 years ago
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What stops a startup turning into a scaleup and what can you do about it? Since my own fights with fellow business partners back in the noughties, I’ve wondered how I could have done things...

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The Breakthrough Canvas 3.0

7 years ago
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We’ve just launched a new 4.0 version of the Breakthrough Business Model Canvas here…   Updated, upgraded and ready to use! Get clarity, gain traction, shred marketing costs and...

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