How to Develop a Strategy For Success   Use SWOT Analysis to assess your organization's current position before you decide on any new strategy. Find out what's working well, and what's not so good....

Competitive research is a crucial part of any good marketing plan. This term may elicit some negative images but competitive research has nothing to do with spying. It has everything to do with pa...

What is the Business Model Canvas (BMC)? The Business Model Canvas is a strategic tool used for visually developing or displaying a business model. A BMC helps determine and align the key business ac...

As you get yourself situated in the morning, you open your email to see three different requests for status updates on one of your projects. Your manager wants to know when the budget will be finaliz...

If you want to avoid the catastrophe of a meeting with no ending in sight, make sure each has a structure. Before the meeting Schedule this meeting at least one week in advance, ideally at the e...

The Product feature matrix maps out how the benefits your product offers matches customer needs. One axis represents the importance of these features to the customer. the other measures the perceived...

A product roadmap is a plan of action for how a product or solution will evolve over time. Product owners use roadmaps to outline future product functionality and when new features will be released....

A functional specification (also, functional spec, specs, functional specifications document (FSD), functional requirements specification) in systems engineering and software development is a documen...

We're not scared of small markets. The main thing is how much value your product can bring and how much you can capture? If you have a strong solution and your product has the opportunity to disrupt a...

We get heavily involved in the earliest stages of company formation or growth. In many cases, we actually start the company and control it. We do all this with our own ship, we hire all the people and...

We operate with what we call a studio model, so our fund is very small. It's concentrated around ten to twelve companies and we're looking at dramatically high-target and high-growth areas: the consum...

A good team is the one that has extensive experience, plus they're obsessed with a particular problem. I've had success in backing a few founders who had actual expertise in addressing certain proble...

I've built a distribution for B2B K12 companies multiple times so I learned a lot about what works and what doesn't. To have an over-scaled distribution in K-12, you need to learn about the right mix...

There are certain things that differentiate successful entrepreneurs from those that are just in the business for the money, and one of those things is that they learn deeply the problem they are tryi...

When it comes to defining market share and competitive advantage, there are three things metrics we’re looking for in founders. Number one is culture. And it's not necessarily the team. It's a questio...