Startups: How to Do a Pre-Mortem (and Prevent a Post-Mortem)

Startups: How to Do a Pre-Mortem (and Prevent a Post-Mortem)

Doctors conduct postmortems to figure why people died. They do this to solve a crime, prevent the death of others, and satisfy curiosity. However, once somebody dies, it’s too late to help him. Entrepreneurs and their investors also often analyze why a product, service, or company died—especially if it’s someone else’s company. And, as in the case of dead people, a postmortem is too late to do much good for a defunct product, service, or company. Enter the concept of premortems, coined
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Hear how the Lean Startup began — and helped one company find success: Episode 2 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Eric Ries and Jon Sebastiani

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Listen to the full interviews by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here.  (And download any of the past shows here .) The focus of our first segment with Eric was, “What is the Lean Startup” and how did it start? Eric Ries co-founded Catalyst Recruiting while attending Yale, and continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com. He later co-founded an
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New Forbes article: Build Fan Loyalty Like RuPaul and American’s Top Drag Queens

June 1st, 2015 What do smart businesses and top drag queens have in common? Focus on loyal long term customers. Ready my Forbes article here what we marketers can learn from drag queens. Yes, drag queens. Get updates about Jackie’s upcoming TEDxVancouver talk and new book on how to build confidence, take risks, and live more fearlessly by harnessing the transformative art of drag. Named as one of the 10 most influential online marketers, Jackie previously co-authored the award-winning Church o
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How to Launch (And Why Scaling Doesn’t Matter)

In the early days of starting up, the ability to scale is overrated. “Scale,” in case you haven’t heard the term, refers to the concept that there are processes in place that are fast, cheap, and repeatable because there will soon be millions of customers who generate billions of dollars of revenue. For example, if Pierre Omidyar had to test every used printer offered for sale, eBay couldn’t scale. If Marc Benioff had to make every sales call, Salesforce.com couldn’t scale. If James H
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Episode 1 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Alexander Osterwalder and Oren Jacob

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Listen to their full interviews by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here.  (And download any of the past shows here .) —– The focus of our first segment was on Alexander Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas – how and why he created it and how startups and large companies are using it to search for repeatable, scalable business models. Alexander Osterwalder co-founded Strategyzer, a
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Episode 5 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Pete Newell, John Kuhn, Matt Weingart, Takashi Tsutsmi and Masato Iino

My guests this past week on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Listen to the full interviews by downloading them from SoundCloud here, here, here and here.  (And download any of the past shows here .) The focus of our first segment is how Silicon Valley and the U.S. military can work together – for access to advanced technology and to learn how to move with agility, speed and urgency. Our guests Pete Newell, John Kuhn and Matt Weingart served
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