Tag: product-market fit

  • Growth partner spotlight: Control4 🖲

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    In my post a few days ago I mentioned the importance of working with growth partners and the value + meta-value they bring. Todays spotlight is on Control4.

    We have been growing the business together with Control4 now for over 8 years. Together we grew every single year.

    A quick look at Control4 according to the 3 criteria for growth partners I mentioned:

    Growth: 🚀

    • market share: Control4 now is the undisputed market leader in our markets as the leading control system for the connected home.
    • portfolio: With the acquisition of Pakedge networking and iHiji monitoring we are now able to offer the digital foundation of what has become the standard for every home of today and tomorrow. Total Available Market increase and scope for growth long into the future.
    • numbers: Genesis Technologies has grown its business with Control4 triple and high double digit for over 8 years in a row. Not a coincidence. Proof of a solid growth 🚀 partnership.

    Innovation: 👩🏼‍🔬

    • products: Control4 has released new, simple and innovative products year after year. And shipping on announcement. A point often underestimated because true innovation only counts when it hits the market… (“true artists ship”… S. J.)
    • role in the value chain: together we have moved from simply supplying products towards investing in our partners to make them more successful. Innovating wrt  the role we have in the market is just as important as keeping up with Moore´s Law.

    Loyalty: 🙏🏻

    • 8 years straight, over 3000 days working and growing together and counting.  Most are presidents that last less…we can debate if that is a good thing later 😎
    • Loyal tribe of system integrators: For us loyalty through the channel is equally important as margin through the channel. It takes long term vision and commitment. But once achieved multipliers start popping up where you least expect them.

    As continue to shape and build the future we will find great things ahead of us. The past and present have taught us that much so far.

    Be well, be you. And keep looking for growth partners 🚀🤝👩🏼‍🔬 if you want to create impact as a small business.

     

     

  • We´re gonna build The Wall…👷🏽‍♀️

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    with great sound 🎹…and have millionaires pay for it.

    🍾Luxury living rooms just got a whole lot nicer.

    Seriously – take note:
    Samsung has raised the bar on what entertainment systems should be like at homes of today and tomorrow. It is called The Wall and will be married to Steinway Lyngdorf systems for picture perfect sound.

    Read up on the interview here.

    And stay tuned for more news soon…beautiful example of co-marketing btw.

     

  • follow the money 💵

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    Always good to keep things simple. We go where our client is, not the other way around.

    Genesis Home Technology Architects simplifies home technology in homes of 1.000.000€ and up. And those homes are to be found where millionaires live.

    You could either call this data-driven strategy implementation, or common sense. Same thing.

    Do you know who your client is and where he is to be found?

  • Product or customer centric ?

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    Ask yourself the following 2 questions and figure out what type of start-up you are.

    Q1: Are you building products for your customers?

    Q2: Are you looking for customers for the products you have built?

    The answer lets you determine if you are

    • customer-centric or product-centric
    • considering marketing as the start or the end of the process
    • comfortable with individual and changing customer desires or have wet dreams of uniform eternal customer tastes

    The answer may be a mindset or it may be a phase.

    Either way the answer will bring perspective that can help you deal with challenges and opportunities ahead

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    ICE Cinema “sherlock”

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  • 7 Questions to assess your business model

    To make sure you are going somewhere, you better start by knowing where you are.

    In order to look at your business from all sides and then map where you are I strongly recommend to use the following checklist. It can be a harsh confrontation but truth brings insight if you face it head on.

    This insight will help you to move beyond mere differentiation of products or services and craft superior business models instead. Just having a product or a service people want is simply not enough anymore.

    Great value propositions need to be embedded in great business models. Start building yours today.