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Consultant-Led Innovation

Consultant-Led Innovation

By Hutch Carpenter on May 5, 2014

Finally, remember Innovation won’t come from plans or people outside your company – it will be found in the people you already have inside who understand your company’s strengths and its vulnerabilities. Steve Blank, Esade Business School Commencement Speech I think Steve Blank – well-respected thinker on innovation and entrepreneurship – has hit a key point […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged consultants, consulting, crowdsourcing, employees, innovation, management consulting, mba, Steve Blank | 1 Response

Enterprise software marketing: Sell the value, not the box

Enterprise software marketing: Sell the value, not the box

By Michael Krigsman on January 30, 2014

Many enterprise software startups view success as a simple equation: build a great product and the world will line up to buy. There are two problems with this logic. First, it assumes that great product always drives great success; and second, this thinking leads to feature-oriented, rather than customer-centric, decisions. The tendency to focus on features […]

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Is it OK to Want to Make Money?

Is it OK to Want to Make Money?

By Mark Suster on December 8, 2010

This past October I was honored to be invited by Steve Blank to speak at Stanford for their Enterprise Thought Leader (ETL) series.  The topic I chose to speak about was “lessons on starting a company” but I created the sub-title in class “a Silicon Valley heresy” since my goal was to slay many of the […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged silicon valley, Startup Advice, Steve Blank, Tech Market Analysis, thought leader

This Week’s Keynote Presentations

This Week’s Keynote Presentations

By Mark Suster on October 5, 2010

I have often complained how much I hate sitting on panels.  The reason is that conferences usually pack them up with speakers to maximize the number of high profile guests in attendance to sell more general admission tickets.  So with a panel of 5-6 people and 30-45 minutes it’s hard to have a real conversation. […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged business, conferences, panels, public speaking, Santa Monica, startups, Steve Blank, VC Industry

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