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see the forrest and the trees
My catch phrase this week has been “Think like a Marketer, Act like a Salesperson” A colleague went to raise $16M with a cunning plan. Two investors told him his plan was stupid, not cunning, and he pretty much threw his pitch in the bin. Another colleague deployed some new infrastructure, based on market research…
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When you compare yourself to others
There is a line from the poem Desiderata that I find myself quoting quite often to founders of small innovative businesses. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. But like most quotes that sound worthy, I like to dig deeper…