Startup & Strategy: Recent Episodes
Houman Asefi
Australia is a unique country as Australians do not afraid to test new things. As Metaverse is expanding in different industries fast, I personally believe that Australia can lead this trend towards becoming one of the first countries to go all in Metaverse.
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NFTs are a pretty bad idea for the environment but there are still plenty of ways and options that are just as good if not better. https://www.houmanasefi.com/post/why-nfts-are-bad-for-the-environment-and-how-we-can-adopt
In only 3 months, I could build a $12M pipe from a zero customer base just by sticking to the basics. It is not easy but we got to a predictable point to enter the next quarter. Link to blog: https://www.houmanasefi.com/post/the-one-single-principle-that-helped-me-to-build-a-12m-pipeline-in-3-months
EPISODE 11: How to hire great sales people and build a strong sales team
In this episode, I am talking about what it takes to hire great sales reps for your tech startup.
It is simple, but not easy!
EPISODE 10: How NFTs Will Change Enterprise Space; Use Cases and Opportunities
Corporations can determine whether they should participate in NFT (Non Fungible Token) investment by focusing on explicit use cases and their market positioning and their business strategy. NFTs will be the future of everything and moving beyond just flex for collectors.
https://www.houmanasefi.com/post/how-nfts-will-change-enterprise-space-use-cases-and-opportunities
EPISODE 9: Can You Teach Entrepreneurship? Also includes a Guest Post by Bill Gross who Said You Can't
What's your definition of entrepreneurship? This blog seeks to collect a wide range of insights. Also includes a guest post by Bill Gross who said you can't.
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EPISODE 8: Top 8 Reasons Why Entrepreneurship is Important
Entrepreneurs are new rock stars. They are source of innovation and key forces of change in the world. The impact of entrepreneurship on economy is massive mainly because, in cases they are the economy.
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EPISODE 7: Do We Have to Stop Comparing Sales to Military and War Strategy?
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EPISODE 6: What industries will exist in 5 years that the average person isn’t talking about today?
Guess what industries I want to talk about?
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Average Session Time (AST) spent on a website or blog is an important metric. In my opinion, it shows how much value you are providing for your target market and of course, it shows how much time of their life your target market is willing to spend on your content.
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EPISODE 4: Mental Health Issues for SaaS Founders & Entrepreneurs - How to stay on top of our mental health
I asked this question on my social media and got staggering response! This is real and we need to talk about it.
Mental Health is very important specially when we as founders and entrepreneurs are under pressure to build something from the ground up.
Source: https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/mental-illness?fbclid=IwAR1YuPvP0VtOOtGf3InMNzZRkdnwAbTiKdi8c4MS8guxG492Ecgp2GV7AjE
EPISODE 3: Hiring & Interview Tip for SaaS Founders - Red Flags During the Interview Process
In this episode I go through some of the tips I saw during interviewing candidates.
See if you encounter these red flags during your interview process. Are they really red flags?
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EPISODE 2: Business Strategy as a Service For First Time Founders - Turn Strategy into Competitive Advantage
Business Strategy as a Service (BSaaS) can become a competitive advantage for startups, specially with technical cofounders. Here is the playbook of business strategy explained in details.
https://www.houmanasefi.com/post/business-strategy-as-a-service-turn-strategy-into-competitive-advantage
I have lot of conversations with technology startups and when I start asking questions around where they want to go, or what areas they want to improve, or when they want to achieve their goals and targets, I hear one answer all the time: "I do not know!”
It is no wonder that even startups ecosystem leaders do not know what solutions and what capabilities they need to have now so they can support and enable the business in the coming years.
New startups are coming to the market just as a response to competition and not as the result of a comprehensive market research or target market value proposition. Emerging market response to business investment in addition to political complexity in the middle east will increase the risk of any investment with a high level of uncertainty around what will be the best set of decisions to exploit new markets.
Digital forces are coming from each side of the market; All of these forces are making dramatic changes in the market positioning and brand of an organization and guess what happens if your company does not respond fast enough?
You die.
Go-to-Market Strategy Principles for First Time Founders in SaaS & B2B Software Industry.
One of they key factors of startup success for first time founders is how to develop a comprehensive go to market strategy to guarantee their success and taking them to product-market fit and also get them their first 10 customers.
many of the startup founders that I talked to are coming from technical engineering background and for them, the main challenge is not developing the product.
In other words, getting a comprehensive go-to-market strategy is coming way before your product development and MVP (Minimum Viable Product).
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Blog link: https://www.houmanasefi.com/post/go-to-market-strategy-principles-for-first-time-founders-in-saas-b2b-software-industry