Monday, January 23, 2006

The Art of the Start

Happy New Year! I hope 2005 finished strong for you and you're excited about the upcoming year. Here at Alternate Futures, we have been very busy and are trying to respond as rapidly as possible to our customers. We're also looking at new ways to bring value to our clients and customers. With that said, I want to strongly recommend several books I read over the holidays.

First, Steven Gary Blank's "Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win." It's a straight-forward hands-on approach to building a new product or new business. I cannot recommend it strongly enough.

The second is Guy Kawasaki's, "The Art of the Start: A Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything." Guy is clever, a bit tongue-in-cheek and right on the money. It's primarily for start-ups, but it will work for anything.

What new things are you planning in 2006?

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