This is a simple reminder from Cassey Ho, an entrepreneur, startup founder about focus on projections. Numbers are very exciting in a startup world, esp because you can see some quick changes. The results are often slow and painstaking, but just a reminder that it isn’t all about numbers.
Don’t assume that borrowing lots of money can make your startup fly: We know that funding is one of the most common reasons why a startup fails. This quote however highlights that apart from funding, there are several other challenges that a founder should navigate through. Funding is only a part of the problem solved. It gives you an opportunity to expand, but you ought to reach some requirements such as product market fit, customer agreements etc to make this viable.
As manufacturing processes become more and more automated, the need for quality control becomes greater. A smart factory is a facility that uses advanced technologies to manage, monitor, and optimize production. By incorporating quality control into the smart factory environment, manufacturers can ensure that their products meet standards and customer expectations. In this blog post, … Read more
You’ve probably had to sit through lousy speeches that you hoped would be inspirational. The situations occur when the speaker is too self-indulgent, disorganized, or includes pointless details. Every writer hopes that their inspirational speech will leave a good impression, guide the audience to make good decisions, and entertain them. Knowing how to write an … Read more
Startup is hard work and the journey gets harder when you start presenting your idea to people. When we talked about assessing your startup idea, the first suggestion was to test the idea for feedback. When you go out to get feedback, unfortunately you don’t always get useful feedback. As you grow your startup, you must get good at separating noise from feedback.
It is so easy to be caught up in the glamour of high-impact outcomes that we forget that the simplest of tasks might have the most valuable outcomes. This dialogue from Bruce Almighty amazes me. Achievement, greatness etc need not be a huge thing – it can be in small simple things that can move the world – just one step at a time.
Though it sounds a bit crass, the quote makes an important point about taking swift decisions in a startup. We always get caught up between strategy and acting fast. In most cases, it is also called being tactical. For a startup, both strategy and tactics go hand in hand. We are forced to take some decisions quickly and have little time to strategise about its wider impact. One may even argue that strategy is a challenge with a scale up rather than early stages of startup.
What ifs are valuable when we do strategic planning. Are they valuable when we use it to map out every risk scenario or obsess over it? How to balance what ifs vs jumping into action?
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