As entrepreneurs, you always need to be on the lookout for ways to expand your current business, and always on the lookout for your next big thing. The competition never stands still, and new opportunities are evolving, based on culture changes in your customers, new technologies, and new problems
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Martinzwilling submitted the following stories to BizSugar
10 Ways for Startups to Expand Their Reach in 2012
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4441 days ago
5 Ways to Bungle the Step from Corporate to Startup
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4443 days ago
Made Hot by: Emma on March 6, 2012 6:44 am
Many people, especially those who have spent years struggling up the corporate ladder, dream of jumping ship and becoming an entrepreneur. But every job move is fraught with risk, and the move from employee to entrepreneur is on the high end of the risk curve. This is a big jump, especially in an u
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Your Entrepreneur World Changes When You Take Money
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4444 days ago
Made Hot by: steeldawn on February 29, 2012 9:15 pm
The naïve entrepreneur thinks he can relax, after he finally cashes the check from a professional investor, but in reality that’s when the work and the pressure starts. His first reality reset is that now, maybe for the first time, he really has a boss, or several bosses, and often very demanding o
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Entrepreneurs Need Creative Thinking After the Idea
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4446 days ago
Most aspiring entrepreneurs believe their initial idea and inspiration requires the most important creative thinking. Experienced entrepreneurs will tell you that the initial idea is the easy part, and it’s the later implementation, and the competitive business marketing that are the real creative
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Ten Common Arrogance Traps for Startups to Avoid
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4448 days ago
Lack of confidence in your self, your product, and your startup is a surefire recipe for disaster. At the other extreme, too much confidence or arrogance can kill you just as fast. It’s always painful when a startup fails, but as a mentor to founders I would hope that you can learn from these faili
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How to Give Your Startup Idea The Sniff Test
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4450 days ago
I have a certain friend who called me a while back, all excited about his latest revelation. “What if you could go to a web site and find all the recipes you could make today, with just the ingredients you already have in your kitchen? I’m going to start a website to offer this service!”
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Startup Runway Length Depends on Your Burn Rate
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4451 days ago
Cash is the fuel of every startup. Your burn rate is the rate at which that money is being spent, and allows an estimate of how long you can go before refueling (runway). That refueling is when you will need more investment, or when you will break even and begin that steep profitable growth curve.
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7 Ways and Why to Treat Your Career Like a Startup
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4452 days ago
Made Hot by: Emma on February 21, 2012 2:43 am
The days when you locked and loaded your career in school, and then blasted away down that same narrow path the rest of your life, are gone, never to return. Career survival today requires thinking and acting like an entrepreneur starting a business, staying nimble and resilient, willing to pivot,
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Here is Why You Need a Good Startup Exit Strategy
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4453 days ago
If you startup is your dream, why would you want to think about an exit? It’s going to be so successful and so much fun that you don’t need to think about what comes after. Wrong. There are two very real and practical reasons why you need to plan an exit:
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8 Ways to Surf the Entrepreneur Information Wave
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4454 days ago
Being an entrepreneur these days requires an understanding of a thousand topics, many of which don’t even exist today in traditional learning vehicles, like schools and textbooks. The Internet and its information wave have changed everything – it’s the problem, with constant change, and it’s the so
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