Winning customers as an entrepreneur in a startup has many parallels to a young army trying to penetrate some formidable new and unfamiliar territory. You need a strategy as well as a goal, and you need to pick your battles well. Even in this age of purpose before profits, a business won’t survive
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Lessons For Entrepreneurs From The ‘Art Of War’
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 3605 days ago
Made Hot by: marketingvalue on June 22, 2014 11:29 pm
How To Turn Friction Into Value In Your Startup
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 3613 days ago
Made Hot by: sophia2 on June 13, 2014 11:02 pm
Entrepreneurship is not a job for the Lone Ranger. Every startup requires building and maintaining effective relationships with people, including partners, team members, customers, and investors. That means giving and asking for feedback, and learning from it, especially negative feedback.
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8 Deadly Wastes That Every Entrepreneur Must Avoid
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 3622 days ago
Made Hot by: thelastword on June 9, 2014 11:37 am
Every entrepreneur I know is short on resources, including time, money, and skills. The last thing they can afford is to waste any of these, but in my mentoring and coaching activities, I see it happening all too often. Waste in a startup is any activity that absorbs resources, but creates no value
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The Correct Answers to 'How Will You Use My Money?'
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 3620 days ago
Made Hot by: BizWise on June 6, 2014 10:34 pm
Entrepreneurs looking for investor funding often fail to realize that all money comes with strings. For example, if you have watched the Shark Tank TV series, you probably noticed that the Sharks always ask the entrepreneurs for their intended “use of funds.” Those who respond with one of the wrong
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Customer Engagement Is Key To Branding Yourself
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 3626 days ago
Made Hot by: profmarketing on June 3, 2014 6:57 pm
The days are gone when a techie or a genius could build things in his garage and customers would find and buy the product, based purely on the “wow factor” of the technology. New technologies are everywhere today. People have seen so much that they are blasé, or actually fear pure technology. They
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In The World Of Startups, Consultants Need Not Apply
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 3628 days ago
Made Hot by: sundaydriver on May 29, 2014 5:13 pm
Let’s face it, consultants have a bad image. Businesses want experienced people who get their hands dirty, rather than experts who give presentations, make recommendations, and disappear. Even consultants don’t like their job, since they don’t often get to see results, and too much of their time is
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More Entrepreneurs Are Seeking Purpose In Business
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 3625 days ago
Made Hot by: kingofcontent92 on May 29, 2014 12:55 am
I may be a bit old-fashioned, but I have always looked at a business first for its potential ability to be self-sustaining, and provide reasonable profits to feed my family, my lifestyle, and my retirement. Then secondly, I look for it to be a business I can enjoy, with the potential to change the
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How Aspiring Entrepreneurs Can Stand Above The Crowd
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 3634 days ago
Made Hot by: kingofcontent92 on May 20, 2014 8:56 am
As a mentor to startups and new entrepreneurs, I continue to hear the refrain that business plans are no longer required for a new startup, since investors never read them anyway. People cite sources like this BusinessWeek story last year “Real Entrepreneurs Don’t Write Business Plans,” or even my
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Do You Have To Be A Freak To Be A Good Entrepreneur?
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 3634 days ago
Made Hot by: sundaydriver on May 20, 2014 7:44 am
Every culture and community puts pressure on its members to follow the norms. Even young people who start out wanting to be different are called “freaks,” and most are slowly bent back into the norm by the time they “grow up.” Maybe that’s why so many entrepreneurs struggle with building a disrupti
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Execution Trumps Everything In A Startup
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 3636 days ago
Made Hot by: zioncampo on May 20, 2014 12:31 am
I’ve always said that startups are all about execution. Sometimes I encounter self-proclaimed entrepreneurs who have been “thinking” about a concept for many years, and haven’t started yet. Some of these may be visionaries, but none are real entrepreneurs - yet. Elon Musk has built several innovati
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