The disappearing office and battling inertia (via postie)
Here’s the latest from VentureBeat’s Entrepreneur Corner:
Answering entrepreneurs most vexing questions â?? Running a start-up means making big decisions every day â?? and never being certain you’ve made the right one. Angel investor Jason Cohen writes of a new place for entrepreneurs to seek advice â?? from each other and industry experts.
What happens if the business sale falls apart? â?? Lots of start-up sales get as far as the escrow phase, but surprisingly few make it out. John Ovram, CEO of Exits and Answers, a social community for entrepreneurs selling their companies, says the best way to ensure a sale does happen is to keep working as if it never will.
Is the traditional office becoming extinct? â?? In less time than you might imagine, the morning commute could be little more than a memory. RingCentral, a cloud computing based business phone system provider, surveyed 350 small- and medium-sized businesses about their office structure and found a growing shift away from the traditional on-site centralized work force.
The start-up chronicles: Newton was right. Inertia matters. â?? Convincing customers to change their habits is, at best, an uphill battle. When serial entrepreneur Bruce Judson saw lots of traffic that wasn’t translating to sales at his new start-up, he diagnosed this inertia as the problem. Learn how he’s trying to fix it.
Want to be a CEO? Try product management first â?? Mark Pincus held a few jobs before becoming CEO of Facebook game maker Zynga. The one that he draws from the most, though, was his stint as a product manager â?? where he learned the importance of roadmapping, prioritization and customer understanding.
