If you are a young startup founder, how do you find that CEO or other executive for your “dream team” to close on funding or complement your skills to kick start your company? It makes logical sense to scour the job boards, engage an executive recruiter, or scan the networking sites like LinkedIn f
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Startup Professionals Musings: 5 Paths To Snag That Key Leader For Your New Venture
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 1169 days ago
7 Strategies For Brand Leadership Through Influencers
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 1171 days ago
These days, the influencers at the top of your business make your brand, rather than a brand making influencers of your leaders. Consider Jeff Bezos at the top of Amazon, or Howard Schultz at the top of Starbucks. They were influencers before they were a brand. You too can become an influencer thro
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Startup Professionals Musings: 6 Ways To Increase Your Thinking Power On Key Issues
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 1172 days ago
Startups and entrepreneurs are drowning in the information overload, where the volume of data created is like a new Library of Congress every 15 minutes. That creates a huge gap between data and meaning, and makes quick decisions and action ever more difficult. We all need to take a little more tim
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6 Keys To Turning Your Failures Into Business Success
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 1173 days ago
We all have had setbacks in business – the challenge is learn from each one to improve skills and decision making, rather than let failures get you down and reduce your chances of ever achieving success. The best entrepreneurs and business owners have experienced failure multiple times before bounc
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Startup Professionals Musings: 8 Ways New Venture Founders Create Whole New Markets
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 1177 days ago
The ultimate compliment that any entrepreneur can get is that they can “see around corners.” This is a statement that they are willing and able (and successful) at projecting market and technology turns, not just straight-line innovations. They have the courage to make bold decisions, often contrar
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5 Startup Cost Realities Most Founders Underestimate
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 1178 days ago
Starting a new venture still costs real money, even though the entry price has come down dramatically in last few decades. For example, I come from a software background, and back in the early PC days, it could easily cost half a million dollars for a team of professionals to produce a commercial p
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6 Tips to Boost Workforce Engagement and Motivation
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 1180 days ago
The challenge for all of us in business is to improve competitiveness by improving employee productivity and reducing costs. According to Gartner, one of the biggest drags on productivity is employee engagement, still hovering around 30 percent, and costing our businesses over $450 billion per year
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Startup Professionals Musings: 10 Ways Leaders Must Change As The Business Matures
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 1183 days ago
Entrepreneurs often have formidable technical expertise, key to developing a new product or service, but a great naïveté in management skills. They run into difficulty when their business reaches the $1-2 million annual sales range, or their employee count exceeds 5-10. It’s here that entrepreneurs
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How To Be A Leader When Machines Are Smarter Than You
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 1185 days ago
The majority of business professionals I meet these days accept that we are now deep in the digital age, where mountains of data are gathered on everything we do, online and offline. Yet most executives are struggling with how to harness this data with artificial intelligence and machine learning,
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8 Career Advancement Principles Of Ownership Thinking
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 1187 days ago
Based on my own business experience of many years on both sides of the owner-employee role, I believe that one of the quickest ways to improve your employee career is to think like an owner. Conversely, the best owners are those who relate to the positions of their employees. I’m convinced that is
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