Investors invest in people, not ideas. Customers buy from people, not companies. Employees rally for a great leader. As an entrepreneur, you need relationships to succeed. That means relationships with team members, investors, customers, and vendors. One of the best ways to build a good relationshi
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7 Ways To Make Your People More Valuable Than Ideas
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2720 days ago
Made Hot by: logistico on November 15, 2016 10:59 am
8 Keys To Getting Real Value From Business Networking
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2726 days ago
Made Hot by: problogger78 on November 9, 2016 9:26 am
There is no skill more vital to an entrepreneur than effective networking. You can’t build your business alone, and networking is the best way to open doors, professionally and personally. For introverts like me, it’s not easy to step out of your comfort zone and meet new people, but if you approac
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8 Transformative Principles That Can Change The World
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2727 days ago
Made Hot by: businessluv on November 8, 2016 8:40 am
Every entrepreneur has an idea for transforming a market with innovative new technology, or transforming society with a new process. But unfortunately, most of these ideas fail at the execution level, or are not truly innovative. Entrepreneurs who have been really transformative, like Steve Jobs an
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Are You Building High-Level Business Relationships?
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2730 days ago
Made Hot by: mikehartman1 on November 4, 2016 9:11 pm
In the world of entrepreneurs and startups, high level relationships are everything. You can’t start a business alone. You need partners, team members, investors, vendors, and customers. But people don’t realize that all relationships are not the same. There are people you only recognize on the str
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7 Lessons For Founders On How To Stick Your Neck Out
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2734 days ago
Made Hot by: bloggerpalooza on November 3, 2016 1:22 pm
Willingness to take a risk is the hallmark of a serious entrepreneur. That’s why one of the first questions that potential investors ask is “How much of your own money, and friends and family, have you put into the new business?” If you won’t risk yours, you won’t get investors to risk theirs.
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11 Ways To Start Pulling Customers To Your Solution
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2733 days ago
Made Hot by: steefen on November 1, 2016 8:43 pm
Traditional marketing says you have to “push” your message out to customers, over and over again, to get you remembered. A more effective approach in today’s Internet and interactive culture is to use “pull” technology to bring customers and clients to your story. You pull people in by providing ne
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7 Accepted Startup Principles Violated By Steve Jobs
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2735 days ago
Made Hot by: MasterMinuteman on October 31, 2016 4:24 pm
Steve Jobs was a one-in-a-million entrepreneur who seemed to violate many conventional rules of starting a business and dealing with people, yet undeniably achieved great success. According to various reasonably credible reports, including his authorized self-titled biography “Steve Jobs,” by Walte
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Every Entrepreneur Wins With A Goal-Oriented Mindset
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2739 days ago
Made Hot by: JoshRed on October 26, 2016 2:58 pm
Successful entrepreneurs are usually hard-driving, and highly focused on some specific goals, like being the dominant player in a given domain, or the low-priced provider of their product. Yet other entrepreneurs will talk for hours about all their ideas, and how they intend to change the world, bu
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6 Ways To Create Experiences That Customers Crave
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2741 days ago
Made Hot by: LoopLooper on October 25, 2016 12:48 pm
For decades, efforts to satisfy customers have been built around demographics – capitalizing on race, ethnicity, gender, income, and other attributes. Today, in this age of pervasive social media and two-way communication, the focus needs to get beyond demographics into personalities. Customer pers
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5 Keys To Crossing The Chasm To Mainstream Customers
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2742 days ago
Made Hot by: problogger78 on October 24, 2016 1:37 pm
Every technical entrepreneur is an early adopter of technology, so naturally they build things with people like themselves in mind. Unfortunately, for most solution markets, early adopters represent only 10 to 15 percent of the total opportunity, so it’s easy to get mislead on the real requirements
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