Mini exits and acquisition entrepreneurship will become a trend. The statistics are overwhelming. Both on the risk and opportunity side. Not many good books have been written on the subject. “Buy to sell” is the one I recommend. You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know: Everything You Need to Know to Buy or Sell a […]
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Marketing zou moeten gaan over differentiatie en hoe je bedrijf gezien word met iets speciaals. Ik heb het er regelmatig over met onze klanten. Heel veel boeken Op Amazon zijn er ongeveer 60,000 boeken over marketing. Een van mijn favoriete auteurs is Brain Solis. Als je een perspectief wil over prijs en distributie, moet je
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I was working for a large project engineering company and had the pleasure of being part of their innovation conference. The title of the talk was “Engineering the future”. That will also be the title of my next book about books. Make, Think, Imagine Hence “Make, Think, Imagine, Engineering the Future of Civilisation” which is
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Once you become a follower of the Singularity University, you cannot help but optimistic (sometimes). Combine that with reading “Moonshots”, and you might believe that our current economic model, which is based on scarcity, will be replaced by an economic model based on abundance and dematerialisation. More from less Hence More From Less: The surprising
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BITSING Ik ken Frans de Groot al lang. Mijn broer werkte voor hem toen hij zijn eigen marketing-communicatie bureau. had. Dat was meer dan twintig jaar geleden. In die tijd had Frans het al over de marketingmethodiek die hij had ontwikkeld, genaamd BITSING. Het marketing alternatief Het alternatief voor de 4P’s. Geen product, plaats, promotie
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We did a masterclass in Trinity College Dublin with Barry O’Reilly author of “Unlearning”. The theme was less planning and more doing. In our view, it always begins and ends with numbers and a 100-day plan. In our view, it always begins and ends with numbers and a 100-day plan. Mindset But without the right mindset,
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Increasingly, I have come to the conclusion that unless you really know what you are doing, startups are a mug’s game. Why risk everything on a 10% chance of success? You are better off buying an existing business with clients, cash flow, distribution channels and infrastructure and become an acquisition entrepreneur. What is your number
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I have been working on my book “Future focussed entrepreneurship” for quite a while now, and since my last Mankracht retreat with tibor.nl, I have come to the conclusion that preparing for the future always ends and begins with a 100-day plan. You need a point on the horizon, but you will never get there
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The military is the only profession that teaches leadership under extreme circumstances. And they have been teaching that for thousands of years. Which is why have started to read up on leadership practices in the military and in particular the special forces. Can you lead when you are being shot at? Can you lead when
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There is a lot of asymmetry in managing innovation and transformation. You need the loonshots to ensure the future (read “Loonshots“), but you also need to keep the day to day routine of making money while one of the loonshots pay off. Managing both streams in the business is difficult. And there is no quick