Jonathan Bullock
What to avoid when doing your OKRs
The time to review and prepare your OKRs tends to sneak up on you. It can feel like only yesterday when you were last defining them....
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Jonathan Bullock
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How to sell your innovation to your executive
As a member of a team have you ever had an idea about how you could improve a product or process within your company but were unsure how...
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5 ways to move from ideas to strategy
As a business leader or founder, how do you approach strategy now? More importantly, what is the process you undertake to devise your...
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Jonathan Bullock
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Only take the risks you can afford.
Most business management is risk management. Growth, reward, and profits all only occur on the other side of taking risks. Successful...
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6 business takeaways from the pandemic
The last couple of years during the Covid-19 pandemic have tested businesses and business leaders more than the last 10 years did. Those...
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5 Strategic planning meeting tips
You don’t need a lot of experience with strategic planning to have experienced a bad strategic planning meeting. The opportunity to spend...
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How to simply describe your product
Have you ever heard the expression if you can’t explain something simply then you don’t truly understand it. This applies accurately when...
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How to succinctly summarize your business
Is it possible to say more about your business while in reality saying fewer words? Founders are often required to succinctly explain...
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5 myths of start-up product marketing
So many founders pay a lot of attention to their products and make sure it is perfect. They spend 100’s of hours interviewing customers...
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Simplify your go-to-market strategy with 3 simple steps.
Simpler is almost always better. Many founders though can forget this truth and make things harder than they need to be. A lot is riding...
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Quick guide to creating a compelling vision
When you ask a founder to tell you about their vision for the startup you hope to receive something more than just fluffy empty words....
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4 questions you need your strategy to answer
Strategies provide businesses with a roadmap, a path forward and objectives to reach. Strategies are determined to be successful when...
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What you need to do to perpetually grow your business
Self-sustaining, endless growth is the holy grail of startups, scaling and business in general. The hope usually is that once the growth...
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3 types of name creep your business may be suffering from
Naming things is probably one of the best parts of creating them. Most founders however enjoy naming so much that they can often get...
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10 reasons why growth can derail a startup
Startups want growth, they are very rarely profitable in the early stages and the only path to profit is through growth. However, growth...
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What do you need to do to start scaling your startup?
Startups and scaleups are not two different types of companies but they are companies at different stages of growth. Scaling is a stage...
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4 hacks to scale your startup when the economy is down
When the economy is in a downturn founders have two options. They can blame the macro environment for their problems be a victim and risk...
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Why product-market fit is the key to initial startup success
The success or failure of a startup is often determined by its ability to achieve product-market fit. It is therefore an important step...
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Jonathan Bullock
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The quick guide to strategic planning in startups
Strategic planning is an important process for any startup. It creates foundations, provides direction and focuses your team on the...
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Strategy requires understanding, not just a checkbox.
Developing and executing a strategy is an important part of business leadership. Especially if you are a founder of an early-stage...
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