Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. After celebrating success at that level, they often find themselves ill-prepared to move to the next stage, for scaling their business into a high-performing enterprise. That’s where I see too much entr
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Startup Professionals Musings: 10 Steps To Second Stage Success For Your New Venture
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 860 days ago
Startup Professionals Musings: 10 Real World Hazards With Taking Your Startup Public
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 861 days ago
Made Hot by: businessgross on June 4, 2022 2:01 pm
In the old days, every entrepreneur planned on taking their startup public, and making it big. Today the rate of startups going public (IPO – Initial Public Offering) is finally up from the dead zone of the last two decades, and is now double the rate back in 1999. Smart entrepreneurs are now start
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Startup Professionals Musings: 7 Key Ingredients to Address the Challenge of Growth
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 862 days ago
Made Hot by: LimeWood on May 31, 2022 4:45 pm
Once your business is running and sustainable, everyone these days expects it to grow, as an indication of long-term health and competitiveness. Thus continued growth becomes the biggest challenge for many of you business owners I meet in my consulting practice. Everyone is looking for that magic s
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Startup Professionals Musings: 7 Keys To Business Transformation To Meet Competition
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 863 days ago
Made Hot by: Digitaladvert on May 30, 2022 9:03 am
In my experience as a business advisor, most organizations, large and small, struggle to keep up with the pace of change and competitive forces today. You may have a brilliant product strategy, but your operational teams seem to fight change, as well as each other, resulting in turf battles and con
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5 Steps To A Winning Strategic Plan Execution Process
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 864 days ago
In my years of advising business leaders, from entrepreneurs to enterprise executives, I often hear a passion for strategic change planning, but seldom see the same commitment to strategic execution. I fully understand that real change is hard, but I’m convinced that more focus on the execution is
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Startup Professionals Musings: 6 Due Diligence Goals When Vetting Business Partners
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 865 days ago
Made Hot by: AmyJordan on June 2, 2022 3:17 pm
Business partners can be co-founders in a startup, multiple owners of an existing business, or a joint venture. In every case, a partner can be an asset, bringing new skills and perspectives to the business; or a burden, making every decision more difficult, and taxing your lifestyle satisfaction.
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7 Keys To Moving Your Best Of Breed Odds Up A Notch
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 866 days ago
Everyone who starts or owns a business expects to be the best of breed, but only a few achieve that status. As a startup mentor and advisor, I often contemplate what makes the difference between winners and losers. I’m convinced that it’s a lot more than the foibles of any specific market, availabi
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Startup Professionals Musings: 7 Ethical Fictions Lead Many New Entrepreneurs Astray
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 867 days ago
New entrepreneurs tend to focus only on getting the product right, and assume that the right culture and ethics will come later simply by hiring good people. In fact, they need an early focus on developing their moral compass, as well as setting the right ethical tone. Building an ethical business
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Startup Professionals Musings: 7 New Venture Leader Attributes That Excite Investors
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 868 days ago
In the beginning all businesses are just people playing out an idea. It’s never the other way around – there is no idea so big that it doesn’t need people to make it succeed. Investors know this, hence the saying “Bet on the jockey (founder), not the horse (idea).” A great jockey is a great role mo
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Startup Professionals Musings: Balance Your Marketing Spending Between Free and Fee
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 869 days ago
The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. But startups need t
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