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8 Strategies For Sustaining Momentum In Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

New entrepreneurs, especially technical ones, are excited by early adopters, and tend to focus on their feedback, which will always suggest more product features and options. Ongoing momentum requires a move to mainstream, or even late adopters, who demand simplicity in your base function. Focus on the mainstream customer majority.

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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

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Covid-19 accelerated the adoption of entertainment tech, gaming and commerce. 2020… where to start? If you look at the prediction lists of 2020, none (or at least very few), would have foreseen the chain reaction of Covid-19 to both enterprise and consumer trends. Twitch stats in 2020. Fortnite alone made $1.8

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Why Digital Transformation Is The Key To Sustainable Sales In 2020

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Digital transformation” was a buzzword throughout 2019, but 2020 is when we’re going to see its real impact. It means integrating digital technology into every aspect of business, including sales channels. Here’s why digital transformation is so important for sustainable sales in 2020. by Tiffany Ruder.

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5 Keys to Ensuring Credibility, Trust, and Customers

Startup Professionals Musings

This distrust for the scripted message has led to a new demand for unfiltered marketing, and the emergence of business credibility heroes, like Elon Musk, with his bold statements about space travel, and sometime villains, such as Mark Zuckerberg defending Facebook privacy practices. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/03/2020.

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6 Benefits of Outsourcing and Freelancing In Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Direct customer-facing non-technical roles should be the last ones outsourced. If you do your due diligence hiring job right, the contractors you outsource will already be trained in their jobs. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 02/07/2020. Outsourcing can give your startup a more mature image.

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10 Strategies For Success Long-Term As Well As Today

Startup Professionals Musings

Although his focus is naturally on bigger companies, I contend that his recommended strategies apply equally well to entrepreneurs and startups: Demand a mindset of deep thinking for the long term. In my experience, even in startups, longer-term strategy often gets pushed off the agenda due to current challenges.

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8 Keys To Real Innovation Outside of Silicon Valley

Startup Professionals Musings

Even here, Elon Musk faced this issue with Tesla, needing a support ecosystem as well as new technology. Even consumers here in the US are demanding a more responsible approach. Facebook’s market value tumbled many billions in 2018 due to users’ decreased confidence in the platform. The global entrepreneurial age is upon us.