Storytelling is often one of the most effective yet underutilized ways to take an organization, firm, or small business from ordinary to extraordinary. Typically the underutilization of this art can be due to a misunderstanding of storytelling, how to get direct results from your efforts, or several similar reasons. No matter the case, […]
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Every time I am creating something that turns out to be of value and interest, I tend to go through a process. This process is one of the most valuable things I have learned to embrace. Those who understand it or have gone through it, from my experience, seem to be more empathetic/sympathetic to the
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It has been standard procedure for entrepreneurs to write out long business plans before starting or testing a business. There are many flaws with this strategy up front. If you are writing a business plan right out the gate, then you should seriously reconsider for more than a few reasons. For one, they take a
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Today I interviewed Ben Dixon who is the CEO of Naxum. Naxum is a 38 employee software and marketing company based in Illinois. I had the great privilage of having some time to sit down Ben and ask him some questions about entrepreneurship, business, and how he started his career. Take a look at the video
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Something that has been philosophized in business for a long time is whether or not you should take into consideration and ask what the customer wants. This is not to be confused with disregarding the problem a product is solving. You can still solve a problem and not ask what the customer wants. As I’ve
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Some people may know that I’ve been in the hustle game since I was a kid. My early days in this world mostly consisted of trading and selling pokemon cards on the bus from 1st grade and on. The bus as a kid was an economy, and the primary market was pokemon and yugiou cards.
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“60% of people are willing to pay more for better customer experience”. This is a statistic out of a book called “Running Lean” by Ash Muray about lean start-up activities. Customer experience can apply when a customer is individually using a product or service, but a lot of the time it is in the presence
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Products are the foundation of technological improvements and growth in humanity. They help provide tremendous value and can be used as tools to elevate us to reach the next level. Steve Jobs once explained that humans are one of the worst and least efficient users of locomotive ability in the animal kingdom and the condor
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In the summer of 2017, I told my parents that I was going to start a new company making it my second sizable venture. I wrote out an extensive 15-page business plan outlining the whole venture to try to persuade my parents to let me pursue the business. Lesson one: Don’t write out a long
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In 2016 I went through an incubator program to try to start my first company. This year-long program ran through my school and took me through the entrepreneurial process. I had been very interested in business in the past but when I started this incubator I was hooked. In the beginning, everyone went through an
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