Change is about the only thing constant in the world of startups. Despite their own focus on changing the world, they often forget that they too have to change rapidly and often as the market evolves. Too many find that out too late, and are left chasing a rabbit that is long gone.
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6 Ways Startups Must Match the Pace of Change
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4184 days ago
Made Hot by: Kirsten Jones on December 2, 2012 5:30 am
Entrepreneurs Need New Growth Models To Scale Up
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4196 days ago
Made Hot by: Llewellyn on November 20, 2012 5:39 am
Startups are usually so focused on selling more of their branded product or service to their own customer base (organic growth) that they don’t consider the more indirect methods (non-organic growth) of increasing revenue and market share. Non-organic growth would include OEM relationships, finding
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Startups Need Teamwork Entering the Perfect Storm
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4204 days ago
Made Hot by: Ruth Stone on November 10, 2012 5:31 am
A "perfect storm" is an expression that describes an event where a rare combination of circumstances aggravate an environment drastically. In the entrepreneur world, I feel we are in such a situation now for new startups, with the confluence of business recession/recovery, the explosion of new digi
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8 Questions Investors Use to Bypass Startup Hype
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4212 days ago
Made Hot by: BusinessBloggerPro on November 5, 2012 4:37 am
If you really want to impress a startup founder as a potential employee, or you want to be a smart investor, you need to know the right questions to ask. These are the questions that get past the hype of a founder “vision to change the world,” and into the realm of real business strengths, weakness
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Prepare Your Startup Now for International Markets
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4231 days ago
Made Hot by: Sun Tzu Business Guide on October 14, 2012 3:55 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
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Too Many Small Businesses Still Ignore Social Media
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4246 days ago
Made Hot by: sannwood on October 1, 2012 4:36 pm
When my friend’s small business was struggling a while back, I suggested he add some social media marketing initiatives, and his answer was that he was “too busy.” His business has since closed, but his mindset is still out there. According to a recent Harvard Business Review article, only 60% of c
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5 Ways Successful Entrepreneurs Make Their Own Luck
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4254 days ago
Made Hot by: Entrepreneurosaurus on September 21, 2012 10:06 pm
If you have had some success in a business, I’m sure you bristle just like I do when someone says “You were just lucky…” I’m a strong believer that we all make our own luck, which means that the harder we work, the luckier we get. In reality, “hard work” is just a catch-all term for a list of princ
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Don’t Let Passion Destroy Entrepreneur Objectivity
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4258 days ago
Made Hot by: tcamba on September 17, 2012 2:02 am
I’m sure we have all seen entrepreneurs with high levels of passion and confidence touting an idea that seems to make very little sense to us. Of course, we never see ourselves in this mode, yet we need to recognize that all humans see reality differently through a built-in set of “cognitive biases
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10 Marketing Rules to Command Customer Attention
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4272 days ago
Made Hot by: HonorCorp on September 3, 2012 3:45 am
Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Innovation in marketing is perhaps more important than product innovation. Yet in the business plans I see, the marketing content
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Will the Real Crowd Funding Model Please Stand Up?
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4280 days ago
Made Hot by: GorgeousGeorge on August 26, 2012 10:40 pm
The new hot topic for entrepreneurs these days is crowd funding, which is anticipated to at least supplement, if not replace, the slow and mysterious process of current Angel and venture capital investors. The problem is that crowd funding means something different to everyone, and even I have been
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