Every entrepreneur can learn from a mentor, no matter how confident or successful they have been to date. Most people don’t know that billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, for example, gives real credit to the inspiring mentorship of Steve Jobs for Mark’s Facebook success. Yet most entrepreneurs simply don’
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Startup Professionals Musings: 10 Keys For Developing A Great Mentoring Arrangement
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 800 days ago
8 Keys To Personal Self-Fulfillment In Your Business
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 801 days ago
As a long-time mentor to new entrepreneurs and business owners, I have noticed that many no longer associate more fulfillment and satisfaction with more money, power, and success. It seems that fulfillment to these new entrepreneurs is all about changing the world and legacy. In fact, customers tod
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Startup Professionals Musings: 5 Ways To Make Innovation A Priority In Your Business
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 802 days ago
In my experience with business leaders, real innovation thinking is rare, compared to the urge to add just one more feature to an existing product, or make a small tweak to an existing business model. I call this linear thinking, and it’s a sure way to be ultimately overrun by your competition. I’m
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7 Reasons A Good Team Merits Priority Over Procedure
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 803 days ago
Every one of you business leaders I know struggles with the competing demands of finding and keeping employees motivated and satisfied, versus building and enforcing a set of repeatable processes that work. Obviously, both are required for a company to stay healthy and growing. In my experience, pr
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Startup Professionals Musings: 10 Ways For New Ventures To Survive The Perfect Storm
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 804 days ago
A perfect storm is an expression that describes an event where a rare combination of circumstances aggravates an environment drastically. In the entrepreneur world, I feel we are in such a situation now for new startups, with the confluence of business transformations, the explosion of new digital
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Startup Professionals Musings: 6 Motivations That Lead To Key Market Transformations
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 805 days ago
Made Hot by: MasterMinuteman on July 31, 2022 12:05 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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Startup Professionals Musings: 5 Keys To Building A Positive Culture In Your Startup
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 806 days ago
Made Hot by: MasterMinuteman on July 29, 2022 2:18 pm
Throughout my career in small companies and large, I’ve always been appalled by the number of people who have a negative attitude or complain all the time. These people don’t seem to realize that they are hurting themselves, as well as other people’s productivity, and jeopardize the future of the c
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Startup Professionals Musings: 11 Leadership Practices To Solidify Team Engagement
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 807 days ago
Made Hot by: maestro68 on July 28, 2022 4:04 pm
In my many years of experience in large businesses as well as startups, a key lesson I have learned is that personal leadership is most often the differentiator between success and mediocrity or failure. Building and running a business requires a team of business leaders, not just one creative geni
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6 Ways Chutzpah And Confidence Can Make Your Startup
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 808 days ago
Based on my experience as a business advisor, I’m convinced that most startup investors invest in the entrepreneur, as much as a solution or product. In that context, I’ve long realized that some players seem to command real attention, even if their proposal sounds far-fetched or very risky. The at
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Startup Professionals Musings: 8 Initiatives For Disruptive Change In Your Business
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 809 days ago
Made Hot by: sundaydriver on July 27, 2022 10:11 am
Does your business always seem to be trying to catch up with new competitors and changes in the marketplace? One of the things I learned from my years in Silicon Valley is that you must always focus on three steps ahead, as well as on what exists today. For most businesses, that means a culture of
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