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10 Ways to Kickstart your Startup – Part 4 – Bootstrapping – Convince your first customers to finance your startup

Many people don’t think its possible to get a customer to fund your business, but it really is, especially where

10 Ways to kickstart your Start-up – Lead Capture – CRM and Regular Communication

Capture every contact and keep communicating with them regularly Many new business owners are looking for customers to serve right

10 Ways to Kickstart your Start-up – Part 2 – Pick up the Phone and Cold Call

This is a 10 part series on Kick-starting your Start-up. Part 1 Mail Drops is here Cold Calling Pick up the phone and make an appointment or start a dialogue. Scary, painful for most, not much fun. I hate making cold calls and receiving them, yet if you want leads

10 Ways to kickstart your Start-up – Part 1 Mail Drops

Recently I have mentored a number of startup entrepreneurs from a very wide range of backgrounds and types of businesses. It seemed to me that there were a lot of ideas and methods to cost effectively generate new business that many had never considered. This series of posts are brain

Lean Startup Tools and Processes Im using

Over the last few weeks I have launched a prototyping project, its high profile, technically difficult, experimental and needs to be done quickly. Normally in a big corporate you would spend a year on this, an academic might study it for 2-3 years, I hope to condense it to a