by Hadley on October 11, 2011
Joe Nocera at The New York Times is urging readers to take a hard look at The Way Forward: Moving From the Post-Bubble, Post-Bust Economy to Renewed Growth and Competitiveness. The white paper makes the case we are headed for a decade or more of stagnant growth, or worse.
Don’t crawl into a hole and give up. Even in a bad economy, you can enjoy big business development wins.
The race is on to make everything smart, and your company needs to be at the head of the pack. No matter what you make, the challenge is to make it operate intelligently. When this happens, you can increase your revenues by saving your customers time, money and effort. The money that comes into your pocket can come from someone else’s pocket, even when the economy isn’t growing.
Be smarter. Make your products and services smarter. You’ll still win.
by Hadley on July 18, 2011
From a Forbes interview with Mark Cuban, serial entrepreneur, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, and recipient of thousands of investment requests. Dan Schawbel asked Cuban, “What do you use to filter the pitches and how to you decide what to invest in?”
“I can tell after reading the first paragraph if I’m interested. If the pitch starts with a sob story, I’m out. If the pitch talks about personal issues. I’m out. If the pitch starts off with how big the market opportunity is, I’m out. If the pitch tells me what is unique about the product, how it can make a profit, AND it’s an area where I have expertise, I will read on. From there, it has to be something I feel is a unique product /service that can scale, be profitable AND again, matches my skill set so i can add value. I try to never be just a financial investor and I rarely do deals that are built on financial engineering.”
Read the interview.
