Finding Profitable Niches
There was a great article in the WSJ yesterday about The World’s Oddest Air Routes. For example: Armenian airline Armavia (catchy name) now flies Birmingham, UK to Amritsar, India via Armenia Delta flies Paris to Cincinnati Boston has non stop flights to Cape...
The Odds Game
In the US the odds of selling a business for $10m or more in 2011 were 1 in 4627 or 0.022%. (5900 out of 27.3m US businesses) In the UK the odds of would be pop stars being signed by a record label in 2011 were 1 in 3428 or 0.029%. (175 out of 600,000) The odds of...
Questions that Scaling needs to solve
Questions Have you positioned your business in the best medium term market? Are you remarkable or invisible in the market? Are you clear on your Product Road Map? Is your business outgrowing your staff? Are you waiting too long to hire new people? Have you formalized...The Pyramid Principle – Tough Love
Most entrepreneurs run their business like an upside down pyramid: As they get bored with one activity they diversify into another activity before they have scratched the surface on the first activity. Their idea of strategy is represented by a long flat line of...
The Strategic Workshop
The away day, the retreat, the jamboree. They have all been discredited by abuse. But there is a really powerful, one to two day event, I would recommend to a management team trying to scale their business – The Strategic Workshop. Here are my ingredients to a...Operational Excellence For Exits
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