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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

based software companies started since 2003 and valued at over $1 billion by public or private market investors. Where startups search for product/market fit and consistency in customer retention, ScaleUps search for scalable product/ market fit, or go-to-market fit.

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Do Not Follow the Herd – Sell McDonald’s and Microsoft

Adam Hartung

Leadership touted a higher same store sales number, but that is completely misleading. McDonald’s leadership has undertaken a back to basics program. As customer counts are declining, leadership is trying to pull more money out of its declining “core.” McDonald’s profits rose 23%. declined 6%.

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Innovation – Why Bezos Succeeded, While Lampert Failed at Sears

Adam Hartung

On May 1, 2003, KMart begins trading again. Heck, leadership had discontinued the famous catalogues in 1993 to stop store cannibalization and push people into locations where the company could promote more products and services. Leaving Sears’ market “hollowed out.” So that was where he had leadership focus.

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Remembering

Technology Created

Why would it be important to dig into events such as the introduction of the Model A by Henry Ford in 1927 or the failure of IBM to react to Microsoft’s entry into the PC market in the early 1980’s? Why would they simply not be able to more effectively and easily move to a new market and opportunity as they occur? 5] Perez, Carlota.

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Facebook’s Surge, Apple’s Slide and Chipotle’s Stall – It’s All About Growth

Adam Hartung

With growth like that Facebook’s leadership can do anything it wants. Breaking a streak of 51 straight quarters of revenue growth (since 2003) really sent investors fleeing. Apple iBeacons and Apple Pay continue their march as major technologies in the IoT (Internet of Things) market. As Apple found out. There are 1.5M

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Open Innovation: Convincing the Decision Makers

eZassi

It almost seems counterintuitive that the same leaders who were responsible for launching and cultivating a successful business, would be resistant to change even in the face of evolving markets. This is understandable, especially since the term “open innovation” only became a part of the corporate lexicon around 2003.

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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

As opposed to entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial thinking is not necessarily bound to entrepreneurs (to be); it is an essential skill for ‘strengthening human capital, employability and competitiveness’ (Bacigalupo et al., Shane, 2003). These two extremes – and everything in between – have been topic of discussion ever since.