The Seven Steps To Beating Your Competition

You’re flying blind if you don’t understand what your competitors are doing. And, rest assured, every startup has competition. In today’s video, I’ll share with you seven steps to stay ahead of your competition and dominate the market. You’ll want to see how Steve Jobs used a perceptual map to brilliantly position the iPhone. And,…

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How Do You Validate Your Startup Idea In One Hour?

One of the biggest mistakes you can make as an entrepreneur is not validating your startup idea. The problem is that testing your startup idea supposedly takes too much time. However, that’s just not true. In this video, I’ll show you how, in seven simple steps, you can validate your business idea in less than…

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Why Research Is A Key To A Successful Startup

“Hostile armies may face each other for year, striving for the victory that is decided in a single day. This being so, to remain in ignorance of the enemy’s condition, simply because one grudges the outlay of a hundred ounces of silver in honors and emoluments, is the height of inhumanity.” Chapter XIII: The Use Of…

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What Makes Your Business Strategy Successful?

“You’re a tough guy because you’ve executed your plan,” “Raul,” one of our investors said to me. Do you want to grow your business? Maybe I can help. Click here. I nodded and said, “Thank you,” in response. What Raul said meant a lot to me because he threw praise around like manhole covers. In…

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What’s A Waterfall Chart And Why You Need It

Waterfall charts are an essential tool for making it really easy for your audience, be it your board of directors or your team, to easily understand how a various part of your company is performing. Yet, most people have never created, or even heard of a waterfall chart. In today’s video, I’m going to teach…

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How Do You Win Deals When You’re Just Starting Out?

“I want us to look big,” I said to Regis McKenna. Regis is a legendary Silicon Valley marketer who has worked with Apple (their first PC launch) and Intel (their first microprocessor launch. He was an advisor to one of my investors (Gill), and he had worked previously with my other investor (Raul). [Do you…

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Are You Ready To Hire A Sales VP?

Of all the hires you make as a startup CEO, hiring a VP Sales will likely be the most challenging. That’s what we’ll explore in this video. I’ll walk you through the all the issues you’re going to face hiring your VP Sales, and I’ll give you tips to solve these problems too. Plus, stick…

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How You Can Optimize Inside And Outside Sales

When I was an engineer in the prehistoric, pre-internet days, I loved when sales reps would come to visit. They would bring data books with them which had their whole catalog of products. The salesperson would also bring samples and data sheets of their latest products too. [Do you want to grow your business? Maybe…

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What Should You Never Do When You Start A Business?

My wife and I were going through old videos the other day, and we stumbled upon this video of Avery’s fourth birthday party at our house. I invited Nancy and her son Ethan to the party. Nancy used to work for me a couple years before that. [Do you want to grow your business? Maybe…

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