1. S 6 Ep 10 They say scaling up is hard to do, and now I know its true JEREMY GRAY
Learn about a company that was founded in 2011, achieved Unicorn status in June 2013, and was out of business by mid 2014. A rapid rise and an even more rapid fall. The story of how a company that so...
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1. S6 E9 The Challenges of Scaling Up
In this episode we learn about why a successful start up, Dot & Bo failed to scale up. Scaling up is a challenge so in the last 12 minutes you can learn from James Bilefield who helped Skype become ...
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1. S6 E8 WHY START UPS FAIL? - JEREMY GRAY
A pet care service expands rapidly in Boston and Chicago and then falters. Did a false positive lead them astray. Listen to find out. What do you think went wrong? Entrepreneurs need to present their...
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1. S6 E7 Two cases studies in why start ups fail.
Taken from Professor Eisenmann's article in HBR May 2021 Case study 1: Two friends, with complementary talents, an identified unmet need and a clear solution to the problem in an industry that was no...
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1. S6 EP 6 How to win in China, Learning from how campaigns transition to government, Mitigating Price Increases
This week, starting in China we look at which companies are winning in China and which have failed. And why they achieved success or failure. It is had to ignore the second largest economy in the worl...
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1. SEASON 6 SHOW 5 Teamwork at the top, Hiring disagreeable people, bridging skills gaps
The first article we discuss is from McKinsey & Co and is entitled Team work at the top. This will provide you the ability to identify if some of the common causes of less than ideal performance are p...
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1. S6 EP Using Live Commerce to stand out, Amazon for e-commerce, Sunk Cost Fallacy
Our first article from McKinsey looks at how live commerce is transforming the shopping experience. By blending entertainment with instant purchasing, live commerce provides the solopreneur the opport...
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1. EP 3 Five imperatives for the next five months, Develop your staff to meet changing needs, Measuring your ability to change
The Covid pandemic taught many businesses to move at remarkable speed as they reacted to events that disrupted their commercial operations. It showed that it was possible to quickly adapt ways of work...
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