Skin in the game – Bootstrapping in Startups
Startups are founded by entrepreneurs having ideas about innovations or identifying market opportunities and, in most of cases, missing financial resources. “When starting a company, generating funding to support the business is perhaps the single most important task at hand.” (Harvard, 2011, p. 7). The first step after the initial stages of design thinking is […]
Resources for scaling up startups
Startups begin with someone identifying a demand, analyzing competition, addressing funding needs and sources, gathering a management team and if all makes sense, starting the execution. First stage is Ideating, in which founders will determine what, to whom, why and how to deliver value, followed by Concepting stage, when founders must define their strategy, business […]
Year-end open letter to the partners of consulting firms
Sao Paulo, December 15th, 2019. To my fellow friends, partners of consulting firms. We have had a great 2019. Our numbers were solid and in line with our budget. Our clients are satisfied with our deliverables and the results achieved with our consulting services. One thing though, is catching my attention. Our efforts to capture […]
Houston, we have a hater!
Após 20 anos de mercado e mais de 20 mil contatos no LinkedIn, finalmente, eu tenho um hater (foi obviamente bloqueado). O termo hater foi usado pela primeira vez por Will Smith na música Gettin’ Jiggy with it, 1997, implicando que essas pessoas são motivadas por inveja. Na minha opinião haters são frustrados, as vezes esquerdistas em época de direita, e vice-versa (sem ideologias […]
Abordagem de Dupla Transformação
Empresas incumbentes, líderes de mercado, sofrem ataques constantes em seus modelos de negócios, por empresas mais jovens, fundadas por recém-formados com tecnologia de ponta e sistemas financeiros e de negócios integrados inteligentes que tornam os serviços mais baratos, rápidos e confiáveis, e a experiencia dos usuários cada vez melhor. Num artigo da Harvard Business Review, […]
