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Instigator Blog
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Instigator Blog focuses on startups, entrepreneurship, technology and marketing; merging business, blogging and social media.
Recent Posts
Why are Customer Development and Lean Startup Principles So Popular?
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?
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
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
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?
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
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 ...

