Strategies for Growing Technology Businesses - Articles

• Business Execution
  Getting to the goal is what good management is all about, and you either do it, or you don’t.
• Monetize
  New models for monetizing your web business
• Managing Your Internet Business During Recession Years
  Here are some key principles for taking care of business during a recession.
• Beware the Sirens Song
  Keeping your eye on the goal, and doing what you do best, is a sure way to grow your business, internet or otherwise.
• Companies Need to Love Customer Service
  Good customer service is a great marketing tool, and makes you feel great too.
• Effective Internet Business Models
  Create an effective Internet Business Model by asking yourself the right questions.
• Startup Strategies in a Recession
  Here’s how to steer your ship through shallow waters.
• VC Advice to a Portfolio Company
  When economic times are tough, you need good advice and strategy to stay the course.
• Solve Problems, Not Symptoms
  A good entrepreneur doesn’t waste time on the symptoms, but digs to the root of problems, and makes the changes where they make the most difference.
• Begin With the End In Mind
  Creating a strategy to take you somewhere is not useful, unless it is taking you where you actually want to go.
• Planning to Plan?
  If you keep putting off the task of creating a strategic business plan, perhaps it’s time to just do it.
• Big Profits
  Don’t forget…the name of the game is to make money in all this. How do you manage your business to make cash flow positive?
• Articulate Your Vision
  One of Spartina’s principles for emerging technology businesses is: take a step back and articulate a vision before you launch into strategy and marketing.
• Setting Product Goals
  After you read the overview article on setting goals, you are ready to set the goals for your product. In this article we fine tune the goal-setting process by looking at the questions you need to …
• Goal Setting: The Big Picture
  As part of your management strategy, you want to set a vision, mission, and achievable goals. We start by understanding goals in general, with Spartina’s principles.