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Business Models & Lessons Learned (the hard way by a serial entrepreneur) Les Trachtman Spring 2008 CEO Summit
Lessons Learned? ,[object Object],[object Object]
Rule #1 ,[object Object],The Last Word on Power , Tracey Goss
Business models matter ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne
Focus ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die , by Dan & Chip Heath Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win , by William C. Taylor
Be Boring ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die , by Dan & Chip Heath Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win , by William C. Taylor
Sales requires discipline ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Readily admit your mistakes ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Act like a public company ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Sometime employees don’t fit … anymore ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Topgrading: How Leading Companies Win by Hiring, Coaching, and Keeping the Best People, by Bradford Smart
Board members are not your friends ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Buyers Pay for Value ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Smile ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Vote with your feet ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
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