Successful entrepreneurs often start with a “random” idea, but they quickly focus their efforts and follow a “system” to organize their startup and maximize the clout of their activities. Too many entrepreneur “wannabes” never get past the idea stage, or strike out randomly in many directions, hopi
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Startup Professionals Musings: 10 Ways To Boost Online Power In Building A Business
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 630 days ago
Made Hot by: kingofcontent92 on January 21, 2023 10:10 am
Startup Professionals Musings: 6 Ways To Develop A Business To Support Your Solution
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 631 days ago
Made Hot by: bloggerpalooza on January 19, 2023 3:24 pm
Almost every entrepreneur starts their journey by developing a solution, based on their idea of a new technology or required service. These idea and developer skills are necessary, but not sufficient, to build a business. A real business requires leadership – thought leadership to attract customers
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Startup Professionals Musings: 10 Tips To Ensure That Your New Venture Is Investable
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 632 days ago
Made Hot by: leonesimmy on January 17, 2023 1:11 pm
Investors will tell you that they love to put money into startups that are scalable, and ready to become the next unicorn. But what does that really mean? Simply stated, it means that your business has the potential to multiply revenue with minimal incremental cost. Ready to scale is when you have
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Startup Professionals Musings: 9 Point Checklist For Success In People Communication
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 633 days ago
Made Hot by: BizWise on January 16, 2023 1:12 pm
Every business professional and entrepreneur believes they are good communicators, but how do they know? It’s really the perception of the recipients that counts, and poor communicators are almost always poor listeners, so they don’t hear the shortcomings. Warren Buffet once told a class of busines
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5 Ways To Plan for Business Change Before the Crisis
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 634 days ago
Based on my experience as a business advisor, most businesses don’t think about the need for change until a crisis occurs. This might be the recognition that competitors are surpassing your own results, financial growth has disappeared, or the pandemic has eliminated loyal customers. Only then do t
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Startup Professionals Musings: 10 Obstacles To Creative Responses For Market Growth
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 635 days ago
Made Hot by: thecorneroffice on January 15, 2023 6:19 am
Successful entrepreneurs are the ones who think the most creatively, not only in their initial product or service, but more importantly all through the stages of growth from startup to maturity. But even the best of them can easily slip into some bad decision habits that limit or hurt their busines
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5 Ways To Solve More Problems And Grow Your Business
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 636 days ago
As a long-time business advisor, and an investor in startups along the way, I’m always on the lookout for an entrepreneur who is responding first to a problem in the marketplace, rather than bringing a new technology to the market, assuming it will find a problem to solve. I assert that problem sol
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Startup Professionals Musings: 7 Tips On Written Communications To Startup Investors
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 637 days ago
Even in this age of videos and text messages, the quickest way to kill your startup dream with investors, business partners, or even customers, is embarrassingly poor writing. Being very visible in the startup community, I still get an amazing number of badly written emails, rambling executive summ
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Startup Professionals Musings: 6 Due Diligence Concerns Before Outside Contracting
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 638 days ago
If you have a software development background like mine, I’m sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. The same applies to manufacturing and almost any process these days. Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually l
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Startup Professionals Musings: 6 Mistakes Often Made By Entrepreneurs Due To Passion
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 639 days ago
Made Hot by: leonesimmy on January 13, 2023 10:57 am
As an entrepreneur mentor and startup investor, I see with sadness the 50 to 90 percent that fail. If you ask them for a reason, most will insist that they couldn’t get funding, or they ran out of money too early. But I’m not convinced that it’s as simple as that. Many are just not facing the reali
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