Ready, Fire, Aim! The phrase is often used to describe what happens when inadequate strategic planning precedes a company, product, service, or project launch.

Oil and water really don’t mix very well. At this point, the clean-up may take a generation. From this great adversity, tremendous opportunity appears.

Time for some basic capital budgeting math. What conclusion does any wise techpreneur come to when the payback period for a home solar system capital purchase is 20-plus years and the expected useful system life is 10 to 12??

With the understanding this highly creative period won’t last forever, Techpreneur’s need to seize the moment. Some structure and a process of idea validation have to be used or else all of that creative thrust never finds a useful vector…