If you are one of the many professionals still trapped between jobs by circumstances outside your control, or are about to dump the loser job you have now, you should be actively defining and starting your own business, in parallel with looking for that ideal job. Let me explain why this is a win-w
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8 Reasons To Initiate A Startup While Job Searching
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 3281 days ago
Made Hot by: businessluv on April 28, 2015 4:00 pm
Why Investors Rank New Businesses By Leader Quality
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 3282 days ago
As an Angel investor in early-stage startups, I’ve long noticed my peers’ apparent bias toward the strength and character of the founding entrepreneurs, often overriding a strong solution to a painful problem with a big opportunity. In other words, the entrepreneur quality is more important than th
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10 Principles Define Your Startup As Open Vs Closed
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 3284 days ago
Made Hot by: profmarketing on April 24, 2015 4:13 pm
Too many customers have long felt distanced from many successful brands, seeing them as closed and mysterious environments, focused only on profits and killing competitors. They may not have noticed the wave of “open businesses,” spawned by the Internet and social media. These are responding to the
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6 Keys To Proving A Viable Startup Business Model
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 3286 days ago
Made Hot by: ObjectOriented on April 22, 2015 11:01 pm
How do you convince investors that your business model will really work, before you have a revenue stream that exceeds your expenses? Even if you are bootstrapping your business, and you are the only investor, you should be asking yourself the same question. Too many founders have learned that pass
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6 Entrepreneur Mindsets That Lead To Real Innovation
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 3287 days ago
Made Hot by: centrifugePR on April 21, 2015 4:48 pm
Real innovation in the business world is still rare. As I’ve said before, everyone talks about innovation, but the majority of new business plans I see still reflect linear thinking – one more social network with more features, another smartphone app for marketing, or one more platform for faster e
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7 Ways To Prepare For A Growing Global Opportunity
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 3288 days ago
Made Hot by: thelastword on April 20, 2015 4:18 pm
New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. This approach, popularly known as glocalization, means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which yo
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Are You Trying To Be All Things To All Customers?
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 3289 days ago
Your business can’t be all things to all people, and excel at anything. Every entrepreneur and every business needs a strategy to keep them focused. In fact, in this new world of pervasive interactivity, it’s time to rethink even how to develop a strategy. Strategy used to come from the inside look
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Business Professionals Can Be The New Entrepreneurs
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 3291 days ago
The era of stable lifetime jobs for business professionals within a single company are gone. Companies are rightsized quickly now as markets change rapidly, and business professionals are quick to jump to new opportunities for growth and survival, with no ties to special benefits or pension plans.
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Realistic Strategies For Funding Product Development
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 3293 days ago
Angel investors and venture capitalists are looking for startups with real products and a proven business model, ready to scale. Yet I still get too many business plans that clearly are looking for money to do research and development (R&D) on a new and unproven technology. If you need funding for
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Are You Mentally Tough Enough To Be An Entrepreneur?
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 3294 days ago
Made Hot by: Webdev1 on April 15, 2015 7:40 am
You have to be extra tough mentally to be an entrepreneur. While thinking about it, I realized that it’s really not that different from the toughness required and trained into America’s elite military force of Navy SEALs, who are known to be cool under fire, able to sense danger before it’s too lat
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