{"id":1155,"date":"2009-11-05T16:50:08","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T23:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2009-11-05T16:50:08","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T23:50:08","slug":"andy-sacks-10-lessons-learned-from-nwens-entrepreneur-univesity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2009\/11\/05\/andy-sacks-10-lessons-learned-from-nwens-entrepreneur-univesity\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Sack&#8217;s 10 lessons learned (from NWEN&#8217;s Entrepreneur University)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been live-tweeting @asackofseattle&#8217;s &#8220;lessons learned&#8221; presentation from Northwest Entrepeneur Network&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwen.org\/index.php?option=com_events&amp;Itemid=15&amp;id=259\">Entrepeneur University<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Here they are in one easy-to-read list:<\/p>\n<p>#10: it takes 5 years to create anything of value<br \/>\n#9: focus on your 1st market longer than you think<br \/>\n#8: beware of shiny object distraction<br \/>\n#7 avoid the rush to nowhere<br \/>\n#6 competition doesn&#8217;t kill (early-stage) companies; usually, it&#8217;s internal conflict &#8212; teams going in multiple directions #nwen<br \/>\n#5 the customer has the answer.\u00c2\u00a0 check out &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/chrislawer.blogs.com\/chris_lawer\/2009\/05\/an-introduction-to-outcomedriven-innovation.html\">outcome-driven innovation<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n#4 Two #&#8217;s: Customer acquisition cost and lifetime value.\u00c2\u00a0 focus on &#8217;em; track &#8217;em<br \/>\n#3: GFA (Get F&#8217;in Aggressive) &#8220;over the last 15months, i don&#8217;t know what happened, but his eyes had changed&#8221;<br \/>\n#2: KISS<br \/>\n#1: <a href=\"http:\/\/markmaunder.com\/2009\/the-best-lesson-in-entrepreneurship-youll-get-this-year\/\">the way you&#8217;re framing it from a capital and time perspective is too limited<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thoughts?<\/p>\n<p>jon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been live-tweeting @asackofseattle&#8217;s &#8220;lessons learned&#8221; presentation from Northwest Entrepeneur Network&#8217;s Entrepeneur University.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Here they are in one easy-to-read list: #10: it takes 5 years to create anything of value #9: focus on your 1st market longer than you think #8: beware of shiny object distraction #7 avoid the rush to nowhere #6 competition doesn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}