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Is This Engaging For You
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How to Build Startup Team Engagement

6 days ago
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There are ‘only‘ three things that you need to build a successful startup. They are startup team engagement, user engagement and client / customer engagement! Engagement focused on your...

Should I Start a Startup
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Should I Start a Startup?

3 weeks ago
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Are you asking ‘should I start a startup’? Or even, if you fell into your startup by accident, ‘should I continue’? Well, should you carry on? And what is the best career...

What makes a startup successful
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What Makes a Successful Startup?

4 weeks ago
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Let’s ask – What makes a Successful Startup? Answer: Data focus (not ‘tech’ focus) Let me explain… If we follow the startup and business media we can fall into the trap...

Nine Insights into Seed Funding in Europe - Neil Lewis, Media Modo
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Nine Insights into Seed Fundraising in Europe – Neil Lewis, Media Modo

6 months ago
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Seed fundraising in Europe is exciting and hot – but how do founders tackle seed raises and suceed? Nine Insights into Seed Fundraising in Europe I’ve been building a...

5 Growth Hacking Insights
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Five Growth Hacking Insights – Neil Lewis, Media Modo

7 months ago
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As we saw in my last article – 9 Insights into Seed Fundraising in Europe, we saw that what matters is that your team build traction with users and (if possible) customers. Hence, in this...

northstars and magic moments
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North Star and Magic Moment: Find Your Startup’s Missing Piece

10 months ago
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Everyone in the startup world talks about your North Star and Magic Moment – but what are they? Why do they matter? And how do you both find your missing piece and use that insight to grow...

Dynamic Pandemic and Special Pricing
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How to use Dynamic, Pandemic or Special Startup Pricing Strategies?

11 months ago
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This is the second of a series of three articles on startup pricing strategies. In the previous piece, I raised the notion of a ‘fair’ pricing strategy and the importance making the...

How price determines your startup value
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How your pricing strategy values your startup!?

11 months ago
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Welcome to the last of three in-depth blogs on startup pricing strategy. If this is the third article you are reading…. thanks & well done! (If you missed the previous ones, they are here;...

Face the brutal facts
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How to be an Optimist during Tough Times

1 year ago
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Startup leaders need to be optimistic, forward looking and full of hope. That much goes without saying. But how do you do optimism when times are tough, people are hurting out of loneliness and...

Founder, do you want this?
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Founder, do you want this, enough?

1 year ago
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Do you recall the days when the £ sterling was strong and the € euro was weak and on the verge of collapse? And what changed? Well, it was July 2012 when Mario Draghi – the Euro’s ECB...

Founders competitive advantage
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Goodbye….. to all that! A founder’s competitive advantage…

2 years ago
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How did that happen? One minute 2020 was back-to-back groundhog days and now we’re about to wave it all goodbye… Which brings to mind how ‘letting go’ is a huge competitive...

Founders Path Maze
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Why Founders Are Amaze-ing!

2 years ago

I have conversations with founders on a daily basis whose persistence and resilience is awe inspiring. However, all startup founder paths to success follow similar patterns – where the...

Is This Engaging For You
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What Are the Three Most Important Things to Focus on For Your Startup / Scaleup?

2 years ago

Actually, spoiler alert – I already have an answer… and they are: Engagement, Engagement and Engagement! Engagement for your users (well, we know about that), but also, engagement with...

How to Have a Holiday - books
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How to Have a Holiday

2 years ago
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How should resilient startup leaders and founders plan their summer break in 2020? Imagine, we’re back in January 2020, Christmas is done and you are sitting down to plan your summer trip! The...

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New Revenue in the New Normal World – 12 Steps to Success

2 years ago

You don’t need anyone to tell you that your revenues depend on digital marketing. Nor do you need reminding that ecommerce sales have (more or less) doubled and virtual sales meetings have replaced...

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Community – the future source of (nearly) all your sales and influence

2 years ago

Coronavirus has reinforced how connected we are to everyone else, and this thread now weaves through nearly everything we do to build our startups…and community. Hence, community building lies at the...

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How to Get your Business Development Right in a Time of Crisis

2 years ago

Building new channels of leads and sales is expensive in terms of time and/ or resource — so, is now the right time to make the investment for your startup? And if so, how do you do it? In this...

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Get Revenue

2 years ago

Revenue is the new growth! So hack revenue – not growth! VCs have been talking about ‘profit’ since We/ WeWork’s IPO fell apart in summer 2019, but we’re now hearing the...

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Startup surviving and thriving in a time of coronavirus!

2 years ago

Why building trust is your ‘go to’ test for emerging safely… Quick take away: if you have only 10 seconds — the secret to firstly survive and then thrive in a time of crisis is to build trust —...

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Successful Selling and Marketing in a Time of Coronavirus

2 years ago

We’ve changed the way we shop and buy since the coronavirus lockdown — in part or in full- so how does selling respond? The shift from problem solving to ‘problem finding’ is a trend that was...

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How Do we Build Strong Home Working Teams?

2 years ago

How do you build teams when everyone works from home? How do you manage / control complex projects with distributed teams? Different people will face different challenges working from home, how do...

Tech and Politics Collide
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Forecast 2030: Tech & Politics Collide

3 years ago

I’m an optimist – despite the horrible politics of the last few years – Trump to Brexit to Orban in Hungry and Putin in Russia – I’m hopeful that the next decade will be a great one! As the saying...

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7 Steps to Achieving an Effective Turn Around

3 years ago
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1. Step back into Startup Mode Everything is now a fast moving experiment let go of control – ask instead for data and base all decisions on that data instead of custom or perceived wisdom move...

11 Great Coaching Questions for Scaleups
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11 Great Coaching Questions for New Scaleups

3 years ago
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Are you ready to scaleup your startup? Here I’m sharing 11 great coaching questions that our clients have used to transition from the startup to the scaleup phase and speed up and smooth out...

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What Next for your Startup / Scaleup?

4 years ago
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What next? Yes, the ‘back to school’ season is upon us and whilst we remember those butterflies in the stomach, this is also a good time for many of us to seek to reconnect with our...

Breakthrough Canvas Video
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Uncover Breakthroughs… Grow Faster…

4 years ago
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If you are running a startup or scaleup, check out the video above… We’ve worked with new and growing businesses to help them achieve lift-off and magnify growth but also at key points of...

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