Without an effective strategy, an organization of any kind is doomed to fail from the start.
Welcome to HackerNoon’s Writing Prompts program. Answer one today!
Welcome to my Meet The Entrepreneur Interview Series, where I interview impactful leaders and ask them to share tips and techniques that have benefited them, bo
From cryptocurrency to domain name squatting, there are many different investment ideas you likely haven’t explored. The investment paths you could potentially go down may seem overwhelming. However, knowing what options are available is the first step toward discovering what’s right for you.
Actually, it’s exactly the other way around. A startup, any startup, has too many opportunities and paths it can take. Business opportunities, technology opportunities, in marketing and of course with its product. So obviously, a startup must constantly give up on opportunities and possible paths.
Yes, we’re witnessing a crisis unfolding. Not only people get gripped by the coronavirus fear. It’s like a stroke for most businesses — some will recover, some won’t.
A full immersion into Netflix's changing strategy as the market landscape for streaming becomes saturated.
The World Cup will be the biggest televised event of the year, and Algorand is the organization’s “official blockchain platform” and partner.
Do you remember the times when you couldn't imagine a day without your GoPro camera? Well, I certainly do. So, what went wrong and why?
I've got some bad news...
I have around a decade of experience in content and marketing. My first job was in the editorial department of a print publication around ten years ago in Bucharest, Romania, when the digital landscape the way we know it today was almost non-existing. Today, I work as a content marketer for a tech start-up in Singapore, which is often referred to as the Silicon Valley hub of APAC.
While HBR declared "Data Scientist" the sexiest job of the 21st century, let's admit that the prevailing view is that it's a geeky, highly-technical field.
It was the year 1997. Apple was experiencing a sharp sales decline.
(Image Credits: chiefexecutive.net)
(Managing expectations: this is no scholarly article, but a real-life testimony of our experiences as a SaaS scale-up with the OKR goal setting process).
Lessons from publishing 200+ interviews and tactics on cold outreach, having meaningful conversations, writing great content, and building brands
Here is a 3-step framework to deliver consistent results with limited domain knowledge. I had no marketing knowledge prior to this project but I grew traffic.
All large organizations be it multinational corporations, big corporate houses, or global production units are applying Six Sigma techniques to better their business processes, nowadays. However, a huge misconception that ‘Six Sigma methodology doesn’t work for startups’ spins around it. Well, the universal nature of Six Sigma techniques and their effectiveness in process optimization and quality control make them an indispensable tool for organizations of all sizes.
Check Out What Can Make Your Content to Have a Wider Reach..
End-to-End Evidence-Based Cryptocurrency Investment Framework. Portofolio Management | Investment Strategy | Investment Process | Investment Review | Skills
Thinking is probably one of the hardest, daunting tasks, and George Bernard Shaw had his perspective that made me think more about my way of dealing with challenges.
A successful "Job Hunt" is a combination of Strategy, Marketing, and Sales tasks.
$400k Closed in 30 Days. Cold Email is not Dead.
The Business Model Canvas is a great tool for entrepreneurs, yet one that is not without flaws.
In the Blockchain Model, we want to understand how the protocol connects the value model to everything else. The rules of the Blockchain make it compelling.
Harsh Makadia explains how to achieve your goals in 2023.
B2B marketing is all about constantly navigating multiple touchpoints and discovering platforms to achieve maximum efficiency.
The underlying reason a startup is so hard, so strange - and why so many fail - is that you yourself have to figure out what to do.
Discover ways to develop your strategic thinking and planning, particularly for digital transformation in your organisation.
Deciding on what to build inhouse vs. buy off the shelf requires product prioritization. Build a capability assessment to improve your product strategy.
As a result, companies that fret over their visuals and site design end up losing to those brands that apply a consumer-centered approach.
You’ve hear it all the time. Stuff like
In the beginning of 2020, the businesses who chose to think positively, remain flexible, and be proactive saw opportunities and went after them
Adam Weissenberg - Vice Chair, Deloitte | How To Plan for the Future as an Entrepreneur
How To Take Personal Initiative
It's a tough lifestyle being a solo indie hacker. Here are some of the hardest parts.
One of the most common questions asked by up-and-coming entrepreneurs is “ What matters most for a startup’s success? ”
Currently, the predominant business model for commercial search engines is advertising.
You don’t create digital tokens just to make money. You create tokens because they add value to existing and potential customers beyond monetary gain.
Key strategies to pick the best apps for your business
The capacity of a leader to envision, plan, direct, and get the most out of the resources at hand effectively is known as strategic leadership.
Think about the level of focus you can have without the stress of losing everything.
Every social media has its own voice and unique language. For your brand to stand out, you need to take them into cognizance and also approach them effectively
Last Thursday, I was lucky to interview Warren Schirtzinger during a live webinar, one of the co-creators of the “Chasm” framework in the 80s, later polished and popularized by Geoffrey Moore in the book “Crossing the Chasm”.
Successful people measure their productivity by work accomplished instead of hours spent on it. This holds true even for very accomplished entrepreneurs.
Twitter blue for $8 has an intricate flaw. And Elon Musk has to find a way to get ahead of it to make Twitter profitable
Are you building a Software-as-a-Service platform? Wondering what data is essential for your business? Time for a Data Analytics Strategy.
Reverse mentoring occurs when young people become mentors of executives to guide them on various topics of strategic and cultural relevance.
Don't wait for an invitation to do product strategy, because you won't get it.
The Jobs To be Done framework is an effective tool for mapping out a content strategy that is focused on the buyer’s needs
Key strategies to pick the best apps for your business
If designers should know how their product may be engineered, they should also know how it may be productized.
Why do so many digital transformation initiatives stall or fail? The answer might lie at the bottom of this iceberg…
The cryptocurrency market is registering an impressive growth year by year. With the rise of DeFi, investors expect next-generation wallets, payment processors with various services, catered to users at one spot. As the market expands not only in the B2C but B2B sector, startups must strategize efficiently and effectively. I sat down with Greg Waisman, Co-Founder, and COO at Mercuryo.io, a payment processing company, to discuss what makes a customer tick and what management should look at when expanding overseas.
There is a recurrent thread going on in tech circles that contrasts 1) the philosophical approach of companies that have adopted the lean startup practice of rapid customer development cycles, and pivoting with your learnings, vs 2) companies that are thesis-driven, have a big mission and are relentless in pursuing it, bending reality to their will — using examples of product visionaries like Jobs, Gates and Musk.
Snapchat success came in the era, where any successful social media company would be acquired by Facebook. It not only avoided the acquisition but thrived on its own terms, garnered a significant audience and has become a major participant in the cultural machine.
Here's what I learned growing an online side hustle from $0 to $800 per month in 3 months: Growing an online side-hustle is not easy. Content, in particular, is a risky marketing proposition because of a steep learning curve, high labor and input costs, with very uncertain returns. Yet content forms the basis of pretty much any online marketing strategy — from email to blogging to social. It’s vital for online growth.
Do You Know What Your Values Are?
Have you wondered why despite huge investments most of the businesses tend to fail? Yes, I am sure you have. And yet there are some that are able to scale heights, without much investments…
I lost a lot of money during the 2008 financial crisis. And before the corona crisis hit, I had made sure I don’t repeat the same mistakes. So, I made a plan and stuck to it.
In this hiring climate, you need to differentiate to attract candidates.
How the competition works in the long-term, and how competition is non-linear in a tech-driven business world
Product and development teams often try to deal with the uncertainty they face with more research, more analysis, more process, more people and more frameworks. Organisations, especially the larger ones, intensify this rather than help navigate the uncertainty.
In the early stages of startup development, teams run the risk of advancing too quickly as they obtain limited data about their early customers.
It is 2020 and the data analytics has gained so much attention even outside of the tech community. "Data is gold", they say - no one wants to be left behind. However, getting the right strategy is neither a straightforward nor static process.
Silicon Valley has always been a dream destination for developers and tech talent. The so called “The Bay Area,” is the world’s largest and most famous startup ecosystem.
Today, there are more than 900 million Internet users in China -- about three hundred million more than Europe’s total population. It is also more than twice the total U.S. and Canadian populations combined in 2019.
4 New Year Resolutions every startup founder should stick to in 2021 including taking care of mental health, implementing cloud tech, and more.
In most organisations, big picture thinking comes off as a seasonal flavour often appearing every few months. Mental gymnastics that goes with determining the “why” - meaning or purpose of goals, promise of a better future, and the excitement of doing something new definitely gets the creative juices flowing. Though not for all, most people in the organisation find this phase highly energising and exhilarating. But does this motivation last long?
The goal of the retail merchandising activity is to support a retail strategy that generates value for the customers. The selection of the merchandise and the type of goods are the key of the retail strategies. According to author Michael Levy in Retailing Management, the decision to carry particular merchandise is tactical rather than strategic.
In 2020, all competitive companies are in a state of constant business transformation. That’s just a fact : those that do not evolve are made redundant by stronger, more agile competitors. And so, mediocre companies update their products and services. Good companies update their processes, too. Great companies, meanwhile, update their business models.
What makes up distribution for a business? In this article, you will learn some valuable lessons about distribution by starting from your remote control.
Brian Scudamore | Scaling Secrets: It’s All About People
The digital transformation process of the business. The role of communication during the fundamental change. Agility as the locomotive of transformation.
Company Culture: Future-Proofing Your Startup Venture
The business model canvas is the CONCLUSION of a long and fruitful process, which will ultimately inform a company’s entire strategy.
Much like the rest of the world, Artificial Intelligence (A.I) has a 1% problem. Creating a smart algorithm is not yet a given for many entrepreneurs - why not?
I have worked with some excellent managers, people who were not only good at what they did, but also had great leadership potential. Sadly though, these managers didn’t invest in their own growth. They were so busy attending to the daily demands of the management job - putting out fires, resolving production issues, solving for customer escalation, moving from one delivery timeline to another - that they failed to build the skills required to become a great leader some day.
Snapchat success came in the era, where any successful social media company would be acquired by Facebook. It not only avoided the acquisition but thrived on its own terms, garnered a significant audience and has become a major participant in the cultural machine.
