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“A wise CEO of a healthcare company gave me advice I’ll never forget. ‘Just start. Don’t wait for perfection. Just start and let the work teach you. No one expects you to get it right in the very beginning and you’ll learn more from your mistakes than you will from your early successes anyway. So, stop worrying so much and just look at your best bets and go.’”
-Jacqueline Novogratz
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21 Tips for Start-up or Growing Your Small Business
by Jason : betashop
21 things we’re learning at Fab.com - October 2011
Presentation Transcript:
21 Things We’re Learning At Fab.com 10-12-11
- 130 Days Ago Fab.com Didn’t Even Exist.
- Now, We’ve Got 750,000 Members, 3M Visits/ Month, $100K sales days.
- It’s Humbling.
- It’s Exciting.
- It’s Challenging. We never imagined we’d grow so fast.
- Here are 21 Things We’re Learning As We Go:
1) Do 1 Thing. Find 1 thing you can do really well and focus entirely on that one thing.
2) Say No! Don’t do any thing else except for yourone thing. Say no to meetings, ideas, proposal, b.s., outside of your core 1 thing.
3) It’s Always All About The Product. Our virtual products (website & apps) and physical products (design objects) must delight every day.
4) Keep it Interesting. No one comes back to check out the same thing every day. Keep it fresh, exciting, and unpredictable.
5) Make People Smile. We’re not in the design sales business, we’re in the design inspiration business. Inspire people and the sales will come.
6) Service Matters More Than Sales. Sales go up and down. Service lasts forever.
7) Do Whatever It Takes To Make Customers Happy. Get it right and they’ll tell their friends. Get it wrong and they’ll tell the entire world.
8) Make Mistakes Take risks. Move fast. Learn faster.
9) Recover Quickly.
10) Apologize. Own your screw-ups.
11) Strive to Have Your Customers LOVE Every Interaction With Your Company. Push your team to live this dream.
12) Celebrate Your Challenges. Force the team to focus on why you suck, even while you’re growing.
13) Don’t Focus Too Much OnThe Vision. Winning is all about execution.
14) Be Transparent. The more people know, the better.
15) Measure Everything.
16) Grow Your People. Coach your team to scale with the opportunity.
17) Fill Your Gaps. Bring in new talent to spur further growth.
18) Hire Smarter. Hire people who are better at their jobs than you ever could be.
19) Maintain Perspective Success is fleeting.
20) Say Please & Thank You. People do things because they want to, not because they have to.
21) Have Fun. Life’s too short to do it any other way.
"the way you show up in the world"
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“…….we believe we are not making a difference. But making a difference is really about the way you show up in the world every day. In fact, know it or not, like it or not, you’re already making a difference by your presence. It may be a good difference or a bad difference, a large difference or a small difference, but you had an effect on everyone who saw you, felt you, or heard you today. So the question is not whether you can make a difference, but what kind of difference are you making?”
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