As a business adviser, I often see entrepreneurs practicing what Tom Peters calls the “ready-fire-aim” go-to-market strategy to their detriment. Yet even I have been known to recommend that approach, in cases where you have a highly innovative product, speed is of the essence, and no clear existing
Read More
Martinzwilling submitted the following stories to BizSugar
6 Market Environments Where Execution Trumps Planning
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 810 days ago
Startup Professionals Musings: 7 Reasons To Think Globally While Still New And Local
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 811 days ago
Made Hot by: problogger78 on July 25, 2022 10:23 am
New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which
Read More
Startup Professionals Musings: You Need A Strategic Process For Long-Term Survival
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 812 days ago
Your business can’t be all things to all people, and excel at anything. Every entrepreneur and every business needs a strategy to keep them focused. In fact, in this new world of pervasive interactivity, it’s time to rethink even how to develop a strategy. Strategy used to come from the inside look
Read More
Startup Professionals Musings: 7 Business Leadership Traits Persuade Customers Today
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 813 days ago
Made Hot by: MasterMinuteman on July 24, 2022 8:13 am
We are living in a new generation of business, where customers drive the experience, and highly engaged employees are required to keep up with customer expectations. Traditional business leadership practices, including autocratic, reactive, and narcissistic, aren’t good enough. Over 16 percent of w
Read More
Startup Professionals Musings: 6 Lessons Startups Can Learn From Military Principles
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 814 days ago
Made Hot by: businessgross on July 22, 2022 4:48 pm
You have to be extra tough mentally to start a new business venture. While thinking about it, I realized that it’s really not that different from the toughness required and trained into America’s elite military force of Navy SEALs, who are known to be cool under fire, able to sense danger before it
Read More
8 Strategies For Sustaining Momentum In Your Startup
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 815 days ago
Every new business I know dreams of building momentum in their business, where growth continues to increase, customers become your best advocates, and employee motivation is high. The most common approach I see to achieving this is to do more of everything for everyone. Unfortunately, with limited
Read More
Startup Professionals Musings: 7 Modern Day Business Strategies For Long-Term Growth
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 816 days ago
Made Hot by: NolanGreen on July 20, 2022 12:27 pm
I have learned from experience that scaling any business is difficult. You may feel good when that first burst of customers arrives, but don’t assume that “word of mouth” and those early adopters will grow your business to match your dreams of success. In these days of global competition via multip
Read More
7 Reasons Why Every Business Leader Needs A Mentor
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 817 days ago
After working many years in business, both in large companies as well as startups, I’ve realized that you can learn more from peers and mentors than from any formal education program. Of course, nothing beats learning from your mistakes, but that’s a painful and very time-consuming journey. Best of
Read More
Startup Professionals Musings: 10 Keys That You May Not Be Happy As An Entrepreneur
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 818 days ago
Made Hot by: JoshRed on July 18, 2022 6:11 pm
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
Read More
Startup Professionals Musings: 7 Technology Entrepreneur Examples You Should Emulate
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 819 days ago
Made Hot by: problogger78 on July 17, 2022 9:23 am
By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Yet very few achieve that great aspiration of really driving economic, social, and environmental changes
Read More
Subscribe