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Every year around this time, I find baseball analogies everywhere. Spring training is underway, and for a baseball fan like me, it’s a hopeful time when my team has the world ahead of it and anything is possible. Everything reminds me of baseball. That said, business planning and baseball, spring training in particular, have a [...]

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I’m not a baseball fan, and I don’t particularly like sports metaphors. But there’s a lot of baseball in prime time these days, and one of the fundamentals of baseball that applies beautifully to entrepreneurship is about making mistakes. In baseball, pitchers don’t always throw strikes (good pitches). They get up to three bad pitches per [...]

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