Avoid Trends & Groupthinking  

Maybe if we did more of that, less of this would happen.

I believe that the recent attention that startups, angel investing & crowdfunding (Kickstarting?) have received has been fantastic for entrepreneurs worldwide. This attention highlighted the opportunities that does exist and the gaps that entrepreneurs could plug, which in turn has seen more entrepreneurs coming to the fore.

But maybe we got swept up in all of that romanticism about raising money, failure & pivoting along the way? Maybe we’ve lost focus on the things that are really important when building a business?

 
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Why do we worry about scaleability on Day 1?

The other day I was having a Clarity call with an entrepreneur about generating initial traction for his startup idea. The entrepreneur wanted me to share some of the strategies that we had implemented (with success) at WooThemes over... Continue →