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5 Steps To Reduce Due Diligence Investment Failures
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2463 days ago
In my activities as an angel investor, and my work with new ventures seeking investment, I find the “due diligence” stage to be fraught with the most risk. Usually this stage only really starts after an investor has expressed serious interest, or already informally agreed to invest. Most founders c
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Businesses With A Higher Purpose Also Increase Profit
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2465 days ago
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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An Ideal Startup Team Excels At Whole-Brain Thinking
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2467 days ago
Traditionally, the majority of entrepreneurs have been logical thinkers, problem solvers, with full attention to details. These are the stereotypical left-brain engineers. Yet I see a big shift from the knowledge age, with its left-brain foundation, to a critical focus today on visualization, creat
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7 Risks To Avoid In Your Business People Management
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2475 days ago
Even after many years mentoring entrepreneurs and advising businesses, I continue to be surprised by the primary focus on products and processes, and the often incidental attention to hiring and nurturing the right people. Employees are still too often thought of as a commodity, to be acquired “jus
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10 Top Attributes Elevate Design Thinking Leaders
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2481 days ago
As a business advisor, I strongly believe that continuous innovation and design thinking are the keys to long-term viability and success. Recent surveys of global business leaders show that they overwhelmingly agree, but less than a third believe their organizations’ culture and leadership are read
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10 Principles For New Ventures To Weather The Storm
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2497 days ago
A perfect storm is an expression that describes an event where a rare combination of circumstances aggravates an environment drastically. In the entrepreneur world, I feel we are in such a situation now for new startups, with the confluence of business transformations, the explosion of new digital
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6 Strategies To Optimize Self-Leadership For Business
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2504 days ago
In my experience as an advisor and mentor to entrepreneurs in business, one of the biggest failures I see is a lack of self-leadership. You can’t lead a business to success, if you can’t lead yourself. I define self-leadership as the capacity to set direction and make decisions, to positively drive
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6 Ways Of Thinking To Put Your Innovation Into Orbit
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2505 days ago
Real innovation in the business world is still rare. As I’ve said before, everyone talks about innovation, but the majority of new business plans I see still reflect linear thinking – one more social network with more features, another smartphone app for marketing, or one more platform for faster e
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7 Drivers of Digital Opportunity or Business Demise
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2526 days ago
Jack Welch, former CEO of GE, once predicted, “When the rate of change outside the company is greater than the rate of change inside, the end is near.” Yet in my role as business advisor, I often see companies naively ignoring this reality. The smarter ones look outside regularly for evidence of im
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9 Ways A True Entrepreneur Survives And Flourishes
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2540 days ago
Could you survive and flourish as an entrepreneur, or should you be satisfied working for someone else? That’s a question I get every day in my role as an advisor to business professionals, and it’s a good one to ask. In my view, the number of traditional long-term employee roles is declining rapid
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