As a long-time business advisor, and an investor in startups along the way, I’m always on the lookout for an entrepreneur who is responding first to a problem in the marketplace, rather than bringing a new technology to the market, assuming it will find a problem to solve. I assert that problem sol
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5 Ways To Solve More Problems And Grow Your Business
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 468 days ago
Startup Professionals Musings: 7 Tips On Written Communications To Startup Investors
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 469 days ago
Even in this age of videos and text messages, the quickest way to kill your startup dream with investors, business partners, or even customers, is embarrassingly poor writing. Being very visible in the startup community, I still get an amazing number of badly written emails, rambling executive summ
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Startup Professionals Musings: 6 Due Diligence Concerns Before Outside Contracting
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 470 days ago
If you have a software development background like mine, I’m sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. The same applies to manufacturing and almost any process these days. Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually l
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7 Keys To Being An Exceptional Business Leader Today
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 473 days ago
Not so long ago, business leaders operated behind the scenes, and even long-time employees rarely heard from them or saw them in the news. Today, with the Internet and social media, if you aren’t visible in a positive way to everyone, including customers, your leadership efforts will be lost. To be
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6 Ways To Get From Linear Thinking To Real Innovation
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 475 days ago
Every entrepreneur and every business I meet in my consulting and mentoring role has great intentions of bringing real innovation to the market, yet I find that most ideas are merely small extensions to existing solutions. I believe we need more non-linear “out of the box” thinking, to come up with
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9 Mindset Indicators of a High Potential Entrepreneur
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 480 days ago
In my role as mentor to business professionals, I often get the question about your potential of going out on your own as an entrepreneur, versus your current role of working for a boss at an established company. Of course, that’s a personal decision, with many considerations and risks, but in my e
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7 Personal Decisions That Delineate Your Best Startup
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 482 days ago
Most aspiring entrepreneurs I know are just waiting for that unique idea to strike them that will kickstart their new venture, put them in control of their lifestyle, achieve financial independence, and maybe even change the world. Unfortunately, these goals are often mutually exclusive, and focusi
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Startup Professionals Musings: How To Keep Your Mature Company Young And Competitive
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 485 days ago
In today’s fast moving world of business startups, learning trumps knowing every time. What established businesses know through experience keeps them from looking for the new and innovative ways to do what they do better, cheaper, and faster. I’m convinced that’s why most mature companies are slowi
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Startup Professionals Musings: 7 Steps To Highly Productive Business Relationships
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 486 days ago
In business, you need positive relationships with others to do your job, further your career, and manage your business. Being a “lone ranger” won’t get you there, no matter how hard you work. In my experience as a mentor and advisor, I find that many of you expect these relationships will just happ
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7 Keys To Scaling Your Startup To Be The Next Unicorn
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 487 days ago
When you see startups like SpaceX and Pinterest grow from a low valuation to a billion dollars in just a few years, it’s easy to assume that if you just keep doing what you are doing, you can get there as well. Yet as a business advisor I am convinced that making the jump from a startup to a the ne
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