business strategy for everyone
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Your business, no matter how small, can benefit from these five notions: Plan for wild success, follow the bright spots, test all guesses, founders need to stay healthy, use funding in smart ways.TRANSCRIPT
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BUSINESS STRATEGYFor everyone
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NICOLE GRAVAGNA, PHDBlog: NicoleGravagna.com
Follow tweets @NicoleGravagna
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BUSINESS SCIENTIST
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Jeff Schell, Esq.
Nicole Gravagna, PhD
Yuta Okkotsu, PhD
Jonathon Keeney, PhD
Gabby Tinner, MPP
Dave Eyvazzadeh, MS
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FIVE NOTIONS1. Wild Success
2. Bright Spots
3. Test It
4. Stay Healthy
5. Fund Smart
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WILD SUCCESS
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PLAN FOR IT
• Myopic planning gets you to step two, no farther.
• Find the big problems and solve them first.
• Look ten years out.
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FOLLOW THE BRIGHT SPOTShttp://brightspotsculture.wordpress.com/the-original-story
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YOU CAN’T KNOW
• You must experiment
• Trust the results
• Be purposeful and open
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THE ONLY FAILURENot trying, Death, and Jail
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COMFORT ZONE
• A snuggly business is dying
• Do unrelated things
• Hire interns
• “Waste” time creatively
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PLAN UNSTRUCTURE
• Expect constant changes
• Let the ground shift under your business
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MENTAL FLUIDITY
• Plan unstructured time
• Do random things
• Try to see parallels between disparate things
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STAY HEALTHY
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PARENT YOUR BUSINESS
• Balance is a myth
• Work/life blend
• Eat right and exercise like your business depends on it
• No spoiled babies
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FUNDINGFrom zero to infinity
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NO EXTRA CASH
• Growth patterns
• Revenue
• Hiring
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ALL THE CASH IN THE WORLD
• Growth patterns
• Revenue
• Hiring
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NICOLE GRAVAGNA, PHDBlog: NicoleGravagna.com
Follow tweets @NicoleGravagna