Amsterdam, 2nd August 2008 Do’s and Don’ts for Entrepreneurs is a regular column on www.efactor.com DO: THINK!!! (like your customer) It is the small things that count – to start with a cliche. But it is so very true! This week I went to a meeting in the Hyatt in New York. At some […]
DON’T: be like Nokia in a downturn
New York, 26th July 2008 DON’T: be like Nokia in a downturn About 10 years ago, Nokia had the best selling phones in town. Everyone bought Nokia, they were the best looking, the best functioning and the most trendy you could get (yea, believe it or not), so any self-respecting person wouldn’t be seen dead […]
DO: Reach for the stars
California, 19th July 2008 DO: Aim for the stars Rather then write about a specific large company this time, let’s throw a glance at the comparisons and differences between large corporates and start-up businesses. However hard large corporate-people shout that they are entrepreneurs, I beg to differ. I think that real entrepreneurs are eventually those […]
DO: GET BORED!!
Series: Do’s and Don’ts for Entrepreneurs New York, 13th July 2008 DO: GET BORED! On E.Factor, we talk passionately and endlessly about Entrepreneurs and how to build your business. But we rarely look at the various levels of activity that are needed to actually achieve your goals. The word business itself implies being busy. Even […]
Pitfalls vs. Pitstops at BMW – Do’s and Don’ts for Entrepreneurs
Amsterdam, July 7th 2008 – DO’s and DON’Ts for Entrepreneurs They say the world is divided – not in black/white or by religion but by those that drive BMW and those that don’t…. Friends of mine are real BMW drivers – they have had them in the past, and just recently exchanged their last model […]
AT&T: Don’t be a company to hate….
Perhaps we ought to be proud of it, perhaps it ought to be something to see as a status symbol, a sign that we are doing something right, but instead it made us very very angry and upset – our phone bill. For a company that focuses on Networking and Connecting people and does so […]