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Startup Professionals Musings: 8 Questions You Should Ask Before You Join A Startup
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 1580 days ago
Every startup founder loves to prompt for questions from investors and potential key team members about their vision, and the huge opportunity that can be had with their disruptive technology. Yet if you are on the other side of the table, there are some other key questions that you need to ask, wh
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Signs You Have the Focus Necessary to Become Successful
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.inc.com 1583 days ago
As a business mentor, one of the biggest challenges I see in entrepreneurs is a failure to focus. Most aspiring entrepreneurs have new ideas on a regular basis, and find it hard deciding which to pursue, or try to tackle several at the same time.
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Startup Professionals Musings: 8 Ways To Get Your Business Going Without Investors
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 1584 days ago
If you really want to start a business your way without a boss or professional investor hovering over you, then just fund it yourself or through friends and family, and grow it organically. It’s more possible to bootstrap today than a few years ago, as the cost of entry continues to go down. Accord
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Startup Professionals Musings: 10 Marketing Strategies To Drive Exponential Growth
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 1587 days ago
As an angel investor, I see plenty of startups focusing on building an innovative product, but I’m looking for the few who are also leading with an exponential growth strategy, to put them in the category of the next Amazon or Google. Traditional marketing may be adequate for linear growth, but it
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Startup Professionals Musings: How Your Mindset Has To Evolve To Match The Business
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 1592 days ago
According to most definitions, an entrepreneur is one who envisions a new and different business, meaning one that is not a copy of an existing business model. Many entrepreneurs have a passion and an idea, or even invent a new product, but are never able to execute to the point of creating a start
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Some Things Haven’t Changed In The Business Workplace
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 1602 days ago
As a business advisor and advocate for entrepreneurs, I find myself almost always talking and writing about change. Yet there are many things about business and work that haven’t changed for a long time, and don’t need to change anytime soon. I’m always surprised when someone doesn’t seem to grasp
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8 Keys To Getting Real Value From Business Networking
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 1604 days ago
There is no skill more vital to an entrepreneur than effective networking. You can’t build your business alone, and networking is the best way to open doors, professionally and personally. For introverts like me, it’s not easy to step out of your comfort zone and meet new people, but if you approac
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Startup Professionals Musings: 9 Strategies To Promote Your Image As A Communicator
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 1608 days ago
Every business professional and entrepreneur believes they are good communicators, but how do they know? It’s really the perception of the recipients that counts, and poor communicators are almost always poor listeners, so they don’t hear the shortcomings. Warren Buffet once told a class of busines
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How To Pick A Business Model That Is A Match For You
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 1611 days ago
It’s painful when you start a new business for the wrong reasons. As a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, one of my challenges is to make sure their idea is a match for them. For example, I have a friend who is a self-proclaimed “foody” who wants to start a restaurant, but really has no interest or
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Startup Professionals Musings: 7 Winning Business Writing Pointers For Entrepreneurs
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 1615 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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