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A founder needs to know…

“A founder needs to know all the technical side.” That’s not necessarily true. A founder/principal/owner doesn’t need to know all of the technical side (be it in technology, in services,

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The best decision

The best decision That’s what you aim for: The best decision… within what you have. Will it be THE best decision ever? Fuck no. It’ll be the decision that lets

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As long as it’s green

“Any money is good money.” But is it? Ask yourself. If that’s the case, are you happy with any money going into your business? Are you growing and expanding capacities?

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Stop outperforming

You don’t need to outperform the competition. In fact, that’s not even why a brand gets to stay ahead of their market. Some say that strategy is about “outperforming the

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Shifting tides.

You can think big. You have to. In yesterday’s examples, this is what happened when fear was overcome. —————————– I’m afraid that if I raise my prices 3X I will

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Fear

A lot of decisions fall short on what could be achieved because of fear. And that will get you stuck. Real-life examples I’m afraid that if I raise my prices

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Looking stupid

“They [experts] taste competence at some point and they’ve also tasted incompetence. … When I tasted competence the difference was so staggering to me, I just made this pledge to

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Pick a monster to fight

A monster gets to be a representation of something VERY specific that stands in the way of what your vision is. When you have that one figured out, you can

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From the sidelines

Stepping onto the sidelines is the thing that gives you perspective. It lets you see what’s going on in the game, and how to play ON the game. It lets

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In or out of the court

You got players. They are playing the game. The see the action from inside the court. They make decisions that need to happen at the very moment. They might have

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Why anchor high?

It makes it easier in our heads to take things off to reduce the price and get to a point that’s acceptable to us, than to keep adding things as

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Anchoring in the wild

After yesterday’s message, there were replies on how much was this purse. The range went between 90 and 290. When I saw the purse I guessed 80-ish. The actual price:

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A gut feeling

Sometimes you get a gut feeling about someone or about a business —and it’s not a good one. And when you go against it and still give it a try,

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Knowing what you sell

Whether it’s a product or a service, you and your team have to know back and forth what you sell. Not only in the positioning, narrative, and perspective. Also in

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Benchmarking

If you’re thinking that benchmarking is about how to be compared to your industry, you’re right. But let me push you a bit further. What if you take what’s the

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