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Scale Up Your Startup - 0 views

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    " Startups fail to scale up because without the right tools, resistance takes them out. Every startup faces the resistance of risk, confusion, opportunity, and fear. How leaders deal with these issues often spell the difference between success and failure. Examining the patterns that lead to failure of several promising startups will help participants see the warning signs. Startups that successfully scale up follow five simple disciplines. They become students of startup resistance; They build a mission and business model that inspire, create value, and bring clarity; They consistently act on and take responsibility for their top priorities; They regularly learn, adapt, and iterate their plans as necessary; and They create a culture of character and principle that brings out the best in the team."
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Scaling Up, Step 1: Fear of Flying | Lauren Bacon - 1 views

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    "Afraid of losing the soul of the thing you've built. Afraid of turning into someone you're not. Afraid of stepping into a new, unfamiliar role. Afraid of changing your routines & leaving your comfort zone. Afraid that if you slow down, you'll have to face your neglected relationships - with others & perhaps even with yourself - and rebuild them. Afraid that if you aren't pushing like crazy, if you're not working hard all the time, you won't fit others' definitions of an entrepreneur. Afraid that when you succeed, the people around you will resent you."
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JOTS v26n1 - Appropriate Technology for Socioeconomic Development in Third World Countries - 0 views

  • Worsening socioeconomic conditions in the Third World have underscored the urgency of implementing a development path that de-emphasizes growth and technological monoculture. The technological orientation of this development paradigm has been variously called intermediate, progressive, alternative, light-capital, labor-intensive, indigenous, appropriate, low-cost, community, soft, radical, liberatory, and convivial technology. However, appropriate technology, for reasons to be addressed later, has emerged as the allembracing rubric representing the viewpoints associated with all the other terms.
  • From Gandhi's perspective, any concern with goods requires mass production, but concern with people necessitates production by the masses. The Charkha (spinning wheel) was Gandhi's ideal appropriate technology device, and he saw in it a symbol of freedom, self-reliance, and a technical means that was right for India. The idea of technology discriminately enriching a minority of people at the expense of the majority or putting masses of people out of work to increase profit was in Gandhi's view counterproductive and unacceptable. However, Gandhi was not uncompromising in his rejection of large-scale, capital-intensive industrial enterprises. Modern-sector industrial development, in Gandhi's view, should supplement and reinforce the development of small-scale industries and agriculture in the hinterland.
  • The rationale was that with appropriate technology the chances of its acceptance by those for whom it was intended would be greatly improved.
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    Convivial in the context of third world, synonyms of CT, labor industry, production and job economy, class/caste power : highlighted example "appropriate technology" Gandhi to Schumacher to Intermediate Development Technology Group (ITDG) and subsequent movement
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