Small niche companies are great. They typically have high gross margin, little competition and long product cycles. What they do not have...
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Startups are hard – much harder than running an existing business. There is no existing market to instruct strategy. There is very litt...
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Product development projects are notorious for going over budget. Often way over budget. This is particularly true in small companies. Th...
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Most tech startups go through three phases: 3Fs, Seed and VC/Scale. Understanding these stages, and the objectives for each, is an import...
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In their book “The Three Rules”, Raynor and Ahmed attempt to find rules for business that are always true – regardless of industry,...
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There is plenty of advice out there about how to succeed at product development. This advice is often based on studying successful produc...
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Why do some products succeed and others not so much? Seemly identical product ideas can have widely varying levels of success. Take the i...
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CMs (Contract Manufacturers) are amazing—they can do ten thousand things and not make a single mistake. Their business must work this w...
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Some IoT wireless standards have achieved something of a cult status. There has been so much marketing around these standards that they h...
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Why do some companies consistently grow profits and revenues every year and others, seemly in the same type of business, crash and burn? ...
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