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Companies whose investment processes demand quantification of market sizes and financial returns before they can enter a market get paralyzed or make serious mistakes when faced with disruptive technologies. They demand market data when none exists and make judgments based upon financial projections when neither revenues or costs can, in fact, be

choice of project types influences significantly, as we shall see, the economic and…

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As organizations succeed and grow, they become more formalized, more bureaucratic, more careful, more remote from customers, and slower to act. Diseconomies of scale begin to work, overshadowing the cost advantages of size. Overhead grows, decision-making slows. Direct feedback from customers is reduced, filtered, and often ignored. The demon of

Simply put, when the best firms succeeded, they did so because they listened responsively to their customers and invested aggressively in the technology, products, and manufacturing capabilities that satisfied their customers’ next-generation needs.

But the factor that enables you to have the greatest effect on the company’s ultimate success or failure is the communications channel between entrepreneurs and investors. As in physics, “complex adaptive systems,” are highly affected by their initial conditions. Shah: That is why, for kids, so much focus goes on building their mind right during

Does your company matter? That’s the most important question every business leader must answer. If you closed its doors today, would your customers suffer any real loss? 1 How long would it take, and how difficult would it be, for them to find another firm that could meet those needs as well as you did?

Caso uma premissa do negócio idealizado pela startup não seja validado inicialmente, é recomendável que esta arrisque mudanças bruscas, com base no aprendizado obtido ao longo da jornada e objetivando encontrar a dinâmica que efetivamente poderá tracionar o seu empreendimento.