I’m sure that every one of us who has been out in the business world for a few years can look back with perfect hindsight and name a few college courses that we should have taken. What’s more disconcerting to me is that I can name a few that weren’t even offered!
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Universities Skip Basic Business Survival Skills
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4706 days ago
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Entrepreneurs Need to Learn to Be Good at Sales
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4707 days ago
A good entrepreneur is not necessarily born a good salesman. In fact, they are often the opposite, more focused on building things rather than selling them. Yet, in today’s world of information overload, marketing and selling skills are critical to the success of every startup.
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Ten Ways To Get Ahead of the Pack at Your Startup
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4708 days ago
Everyone knows that that startups are risky, but they also expect that the job will be exciting and potentially very lucrative (think early employees at Microsoft and Google). Yet we have all heard stories about the high turnover, unstructured work environment, lower base pay, and unpredictable exp
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Viral Marketing For Startups is Not Enough Today
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4709 days ago
Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Innovation in marketing is perhaps more important than product innovation. Yet in the business plans I see, the marketing content
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Every Entrepreneur Needs These Relationship Skills
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4710 days ago
Starting and building a company is all about leadership – formulating an idea, building a unique plan based on vision and experience, and forging a path over and through all obstacles. Yet the image of leadership in business is at an all-time low, according to national leadership experts, consideri
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10 Reasons Why Capital Shouldn't Make Or Break Your Startup
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4711 days ago
Fast Company magazine recently reported that PayPal founder Paul Thiel is giving away $100,000 to twenty-four young men and women to finance startup businesses. The caveat is that these young entrepreneurs have to drop out of college to do it.
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Startup Founders Walk a Thin Line on Delegation
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4712 days ago
For a few, delegating comes easily, maybe too easy. For others who are perfectionists, letting go of even the most trivial task is almost impossible. If you are in this second category, you probably don’t like the references behind your back that you are a “control freak” or a “micro-manager.”
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Every Entrepreneur Needs to Outwit the Devil
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4713 days ago
“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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Ten Quotes Never Spoken By a Happy Entrepreneur
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4714 days ago
Some people are not cut out to be entrepreneurs. This is a good thing, or the business world would be chaos, with everyone trying to do their own thing. So what about you? How do you know if you should be running your own company, or concentrating on that queue of work that someone else has built f
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Entrepreneurs Confuse Product and Business Plans
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4715 days ago
Why is it that most of the business plans I see are really product plans? I define a product plan as a detailed description of your product or service, with a bit of business thrown in at the end. A business plan is a detailed description of your business, with a bit of product description thrown i
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