Photo credit Glenn Loos-Austin , taken at Disney. Hopefully you get the relevance to this post. Startups are high risk. They are hard. At the early stages, its 2-5 people against the world with constrained resources. You need to grow to stay alive. Perhaps one of the the hardest things with startups is avoiding common pitfalls. Im hardly the writer of these points, just the curator.

With Apple holding more cash than most companies will generate in revenue, the question often becomes ‘who will they buy’. But Apple make fewer acquisitions than their competitors, and tend to hold the cash ( they do generate a healthy return through an investment portfolio ), so the question becomes: where does the cash go? Over on Quora , an anonymous user posted very revealing insights on Apples investment activities. The answer: to stay ahead, Apple over-invest in their supply chain. Put simply, new components are not cheap. If you want to see the original Quora post, click here.

Engage. Form Relationships. Share content. Social is the new currency. Social Media is the answer. There has been a fundamental shift in how we communicate. m sick of hearing it. This is not new information. How we communicate now is how great communicators have always worked their trade. Word of Mouth has always been powerful. Social Media may be a new term but the theories and fundamentals are not. My argument is that excluding the new term, social media is nothing new. What is Social Media? There are many definitions of social media. m a simple guy who lives by simple definitions. It should.