Blog Detail

Instigator Blog

Instigator Blog

http://www.instigatorblog.com

Instigator Blog focuses on startups, entrepreneurship, technology and marketing; merging business, blogging and social media.

subscribe Recent Posts

  • Why are Customer Development and Lean Startup Principles So Popular?

    Posted on Monday December 7th, 2009 at 12:13 in startups

    Customer Development is hot. Lean Startups too. Customer Development is gaining momentum thanks to Steve Blank’s book – The Four Steps to the Epiphany and the uptake of its principles by many startups. The Lean Startup model has emerged a...

  • What are the Social Media Roadblocks for Companies?

    Posted on Friday December 4th, 2009 at 06:43 in social media

    Seth Godin hits the nail on the head in reference to using the Web and social media for your business: The problem is no longer budget. The problem is no longer access to tools. The problem is the will to get good at it. There also remains a very per...

  • Firing People Quickly is the Best Way

    Posted on Thursday December 3rd, 2009 at 08:33 in business

    Firing people is extremely difficult, especially if you’ve never done it before. But it’s made infinitely harder and causes significantly more damage if you delay it. When you know someone isn’t working out (for whatever reason), yo...

  • The Instigator Blog Bookstore

    Posted on Wednesday December 2nd, 2009 at 07:14 in online community

    Now that I’ve committed myself to reading more regularly and posting reviews and thoughts (from the books I read) on this blog, I thought it would be worthwhile to collect all the books in one place. So I’ve launched a very simple Instiga...

  • Where’s the WOW! in Retail Stores?

    Posted on Tuesday December 1st, 2009 at 08:47 in business

    Most retail experiences suck. They just do. It’s rare that I go into a store and leave feeling amazed. I might be happy with what I bought, but beyond that, the experience is usually “Meh.” And some retail experiences are so bad th...

  • Don’t Try to Get Funding Before You Know How It’s Done

    Posted on Monday November 30th, 2009 at 09:01 in startups

    If you don’t know how the process works to raise capital and get funding from angel investors or venture capital investors, you will never succeed at raising capital. What this means is that if you feel like raising angel investment or venture ...

Comments & Reviews

There is no rating for this blog because there are no comments yet.

Post A Comment/Review

* Your IP is being logged.
* Your e-mail address is used only for verification purposes only and will not be sold, or shown publicly.
* No HTML tags allowed
* DO NOT use the Comments/Reviews to promote your own site.

Name: or Login
E-mail:
Rating:
Verify: Spam Protection: sum of 4 + 2
Comment:
  Remember Information