Many entrepreneurs still don’t understand that building a business culture today of doing good, like helping people (society) and planet (sustainability), is also a key to maximizing profit. Employees and customers alike are looking for meaning, not simply employment and commodity prices. Every com
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Entrepreneurs Who Improve Society Make More Profit
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 3393 days ago
6 Trends Are Driving A Data Tsunami For Startups
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 3400 days ago
A tidal wave of valuable data is surging from the Internet and connected devices today, and the volume is growing exponentially each year. It’s enough to drown any business which tries to fight it or ignore it, and it’s an opportunity to ride higher and faster than even the successes of Google and
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9 Key Tests For Innovation Potential In Your Startup
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 3408 days ago
he entrepreneurs I see are always talking about “disruptive innovation” ideas, but the plans I read are more often linear extensions of a current hot offering, like one more social network with the best of Facebook and Twitter, one more dating site dimension, or another “must-have” accessory for sm
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8 Ways To Maximize The Value Of Your Startup Stock
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 3413 days ago
When an entrepreneur first incorporates his or her business, he or she may find him or herself the proud owner of 10 million shares of common stock, commonly called founder’s shares. It’s disconcerting for most to realize that these shares are initially worth nothing, and the challenge is to get th
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10 Steps Up A Great Entrepreneur Legacy Continuum
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 3421 days ago
Every entrepreneur and business leader waits too long before really working on the legacy that he wants to leave to society and his family. They realize too late that they don’t really want to be remembered for how many hours they spent on airplanes, how many emails they produced, or even how much
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10 Required Actions To Make Startup Mentoring Work
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 3428 days ago
Every entrepreneur can learn from a mentor, no matter how confident or successful they have been to date. Most people don’t know that billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, for example, gives real credit to the inspiring mentorship of Steve Jobs for Mark’s Facebook success. Yet most entrepreneurs simply don’
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Why Investors Rank New Businesses By Leader Quality
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 3437 days ago
As an Angel investor in early-stage startups, I’ve long noticed my peers’ apparent bias toward the strength and character of the founding entrepreneurs, often overriding a strong solution to a painful problem with a big opportunity. In other words, the entrepreneur quality is more important than th
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Are You Trying To Be All Things To All Customers?
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 3444 days ago
Your business can’t be all things to all people, and excel at anything. Every entrepreneur and every business needs a strategy to keep them focused. In fact, in this new world of pervasive interactivity, it’s time to rethink even how to develop a strategy. Strategy used to come from the inside look
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Business Professionals Can Be The New Entrepreneurs
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 3446 days ago
The era of stable lifetime jobs for business professionals within a single company are gone. Companies are rightsized quickly now as markets change rapidly, and business professionals are quick to jump to new opportunities for growth and survival, with no ties to special benefits or pension plans.
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Realistic Strategies For Funding Product Development
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 3448 days ago
Angel investors and venture capitalists are looking for startups with real products and a proven business model, ready to scale. Yet I still get too many business plans that clearly are looking for money to do research and development (R&D) on a new and unproven technology. If you need funding for
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