When it’s time to sell your company, or get new investors, valuation is the key parameter to success or disappointment. The first step is to quantify the value of assets and current financial performance, but every one of you wants to go further by adding additional value for “intangibles,” commonl
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Startup Professionals Musings: 7 Goodwill Factors Will Raise Your Business Valuation
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 939 days ago
Made Hot by: bizyolk on March 18, 2022 11:25 am
Startup Professionals Musings: 10 Rules To Bridge The Gap In Business Communications
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 940 days ago
In growing your business, how you communicate under pressure can make or break your progress, as well as your relationship with the team and outside constituents. In my experience as a mentor and consultant, it is not just the words, but also your tone, approach, body language, and the context in w
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8 Steps To Success With A Startup Board And Advisors
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 941 days ago
Many startup founders I know avoid establishing a formal advisory board or board of directors for as long as possible, with the excuse that this is just another burden, or it has more risk than value to the founder. In my experience, just the opposite is true, since outside experts with the right e
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Startup Professionals Musings: 8 Values-Based Initiatives Lead To Business Success
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 942 days ago
True business success and leadership starts with real personal values, extends to building a team, and finally to inspiring customers and your community. That’s a huge leap from an entrepreneurial idea, to a product, to making money. Is it any wonder that the majority of startups fail? My job as a
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5 Challenges No Entrepreneur Anticipates In A Startup
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 943 days ago
Every entrepreneur I know finds it a challenge to balance the joys of entrepreneurship against a set of frustrations they never anticipated. Of course, most of you expect that raising money will be difficult, as well as staving off competitors, and handling that occasional toxic customer. What you
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Startup Professionals Musings: 4 Major Influences Set Your Startup Work Environment
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 944 days ago
Made Hot by: logistico on March 16, 2022 1:17 pm
Startup work environments are always chaos, but they can still be great environments to work in, or they can be terrible. Whether yours is terrible or great, that same tone flows out to your customers, and regulates your productivity inside. You as the founder are the starting point and definer, so
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Startup Professionals Musings: 7 Insights From Founders Who Have Been There Before
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 945 days ago
Made Hot by: thecorneroffice on March 14, 2022 12:47 pm
When you have been on the startup firing line, you quickly learn that any insight from experts and entrepreneurs who have been there before you can make the difference between failure and success. Yet, many new entrepreneurs brazenly assume they are bulletproof, and march blindly into the fray. The
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Startup Professionals Musings: 10 Strategies For Staying Cool Under Pressure At Work
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 946 days ago
Made Hot by: Digitaladvert on March 13, 2022 10:00 am
Every business professional needs to stay cool under pressure, to be a top performer, and for the sake of their own health. Yet everyone has a melting point – a critical threshold where pressure causes them to respond irrationally. Many people believe their threshold is permanently set by family ge
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Startup Professionals Musings: 7 Keys To Keeping Your Business Agile And Competitive
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 947 days ago
Made Hot by: MarketWiz on March 11, 2022 7:58 pm
With the current pandemic appearing to scale down, many of you running businesses are looking forward to things getting back to the way they used to be. I’m sorry to predict it will never happen, so the agility you may have learned over the past couple of years will continue to be critical to your
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10 Key Business Plan Elements Not In A Product Spec
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 948 days ago
As an advisor to new hardware entrepreneurs, I often hear the myth that a business plan is no longer required to find an investor, if your idea is good enough. You may have heard that venture capitalists in Silicon Valley no longer read business plans. What you don’t realize is these famous investo
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