You may be surviving in the marketplace, but is your business really thriving and winning? In my role as a mentor, I challenge every business leader to be more open-minded as they face the challenges of change and new competitors entering their space. Most are reluctant to tip that balance between
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10 Keys To Winning In A Sea Of Competitors and Change
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 447 days ago
Startup Professionals Musings: Mature Companies Can Learn Many Things From Startups
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 448 days ago
Made Hot by: LimeWood on July 22, 2023 6:03 pm
Sometimes I like to drop the comment socially that “I knew Bill Gates back when he was a regular guy.” I know that dates me a good bit, but it also shows that I have been hanging around startups and big companies for a long time. The honest truth is that I worked directly with him in the early days
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Startup Professionals Musings: Startups Need To Be Skeptical Of Bank Funding Offers
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 449 days ago
Made Hot by: advertglobal on July 21, 2023 1:20 pm
The name “investment bank” somehow always sounded like a place where I could deposit my investments, and maybe even earn a little interest. Then I learned that these banks really negotiate investments and collect fees on the transactions, sort of like commercial banks do with loans to businesses. N
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Startup Professionals Musings: 5 Ways That Finding A Business Partner Is Like Dating
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 450 days ago
Made Hot by: Copysugar on July 19, 2023 10:09 am
People tell me there may be over 8,000 dating sites with scientific matchmaking algorithms worldwide, but I couldn’t find one that focused on scientifically matching companies and people for business-to-business (B2B) relationships. Yet, every business expert tells me that finding good business par
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Startup Professionals Musings: 5 Competitive Drivers Which Limit Your Growth Ability
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 451 days ago
Made Hot by: mikehartman1 on July 17, 2023 11:51 am
As the business economy is rebounding from the pandemic, many entrepreneurs are thinking that life will soon get easier, and their opportunity can only grow. In reality, the business world gets tougher every day, with new entrants, new technology, and competitors more easily entering the fray from
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7 Key Ingredients to Address the Challenge of Growth
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 452 days ago
Once your business is running and sustainable, everyone these days expects it to grow, as an indication of long-term health and competitiveness. Thus continued growth becomes the biggest challenge for many of you business owners I meet in my consulting practice. Everyone is looking for that magic s
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Startup Professionals Musings: 5 Strategies To Capitalize On Hard Times In Business
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 453 days ago
Made Hot by: sundaydriver on July 15, 2023 3:49 pm
Donna Fenn, in her classic book, “Upstarts! How GenY Entrepreneurs are Rocking the World of Business,” was one of the first to predict that Gen-Y would lead the charge, bounce back from the last recession, and be big winners. She describes a new generation of entrepreneurs that is highly collaborat
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7 Keys To Business Transformation To Meet Competition
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 454 days ago
In my experience as a business advisor, most organizations, large and small, struggle to keep up with the pace of change and competitive forces today. You may have a brilliant product strategy, but your operational teams seem to fight change, as well as each other, resulting in turf battles and con
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Startup Professionals Musings: 10 Startup Actualities That Demotivate Entrepreneurs
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 455 days ago
Made Hot by: bizyolk on July 13, 2023 7:08 am
Most of the time, I’m all about providing encouragement and inspiration to entrepreneurs. They need it and they deserve it, because entrepreneurs are the lifeblood of our economy. But every so often, I try to give them a reality check, just to keep their feet on the ground and their nose to the gri
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Startup Professionals Musings: 10 Strategies For Dealing Effectively With Challenges
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 456 days ago
Made Hot by: justretweet on July 12, 2023 8:28 pm
“The devil in the details” is a quote that we have all heard, and clearly applies to startups, where success in the long run is all about execution. But for you as an entrepreneur trying to get started, the devil is really in your mind, where you must prevent drifting, and maintain that confidence,
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