Comments on: 6 things NOT to do when starting a business – Part 2 http://alexandreboudreau.com/2009/11/22/6-things-not-to-do-when-starting-a-business-%e2%80%93-part-2/ Mon, 02 May 2011 15:33:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: alexboudreau http://alexandreboudreau.com/2009/11/22/6-things-not-to-do-when-starting-a-business-%e2%80%93-part-2/#comment-38 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:54:26 +0000 http://alexandreboudreau.com/?p=118#comment-38 Natica, thanks for taking the time to comment. I’ll checkout that book “Just Listen”. I’m sure I would benefit greatly from it.

You know, I would imagine sidetracking is common for creative thinkers. :)

cheers

]]> By: Natica http://alexandreboudreau.com/2009/11/22/6-things-not-to-do-when-starting-a-business-%e2%80%93-part-2/#comment-37 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:37:48 +0000 http://alexandreboudreau.com/?p=118#comment-37 Nice post, Alex. And Jason made a good point. I recently read a great book called “Just Listen” and one thing I’ve learned is to take a step back and put the onus on myself to see what the other person wants. This is helpful when working in teams.

Back to the post…I am sooo guilty of the sidetrack. I needed to read this. Thanks for the advice.

]]> By: alexboudreau http://alexandreboudreau.com/2009/11/22/6-things-not-to-do-when-starting-a-business-%e2%80%93-part-2/#comment-35 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:21:22 +0000 http://alexandreboudreau.com/?p=118#comment-35 I stumbled upon this video from Paul Lemberg this week. Ten Fatal Business Mistakes. This is an EXCELLENT video.

http://www.paullemberg.com/blog/ten-mistakes/

]]> By: alexboudreau http://alexandreboudreau.com/2009/11/22/6-things-not-to-do-when-starting-a-business-%e2%80%93-part-2/#comment-33 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:00:57 +0000 http://alexandreboudreau.com/?p=118#comment-33 Jason,

that’s a great addition. You’re absolutely right. It’s very important to share and understand a common goal or vision. If you all pull hard but in different directions, you’re not going to move anywhere.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

Alex

]]> By: Jason Evanish http://alexandreboudreau.com/2009/11/22/6-things-not-to-do-when-starting-a-business-%e2%80%93-part-2/#comment-32 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:49:44 +0000 http://alexandreboudreau.com/?p=118#comment-32 Alex,

Great 2nd post to the topic.

I think the next big mistake is not having open communication. It’s so easy for you and a partner or team to all get locked into their individual duties and forget to make sure everyone is cohesively moving towards the same goals. At a big company, this may be the engineering team not developing the product the marketing team thinks it’s trying to sell, while a small team it may be two people pitching the idea to others with drastically different visions of the end product.

-Jason

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