Successful entrepreneurs often start with a “random” idea, but they quickly focus their efforts and follow a “system” to organize their startup and maximize the clout of their activities. Too many entrepreneur “wannabes” never get past the idea stage, or strike out randomly in many directions, hopi
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Startup Professionals Musings: 10 Keys To Being A Thought Leader Across Social Media
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 1614 days ago
Made Hot by: kingofcontent92 on April 25, 2020 5:40 am
How To Pick A Business Model That Is A Match For You
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 1615 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: 5 Keys to Results in the Current Marketing Revolution
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 1616 days ago
Made Hot by: justretweet on April 23, 2020 11:00 am
Most small businesses I advise still rely on traditional advertising models, assuming they can create enough media “noise” to get customers attention and sway them. You don’t realize that person-to-person noise now dominates all channels through social media, effectively hiding business marketing m
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Startup Professionals Musings: 10 Keys To Enabling Your Startup For Unicorn Growth
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 1617 days ago
Made Hot by: DigiTechBlog on April 28, 2020 1:42 pm
Investors will tell you that they love to put money into startups that are scalable, and ready to become the next unicorn. But what does that really mean? Simply stated, it means that your business has the potential to multiply revenue with minimal incremental cost. Ready to scale is when you have
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Startup Professionals Musings: 10 Stumbling Blocks To Innovative Business Thinking
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 1618 days ago
Made Hot by: justretweet on April 21, 2020 9:04 am
Successful entrepreneurs are the ones who think the most creatively, not only in their initial product or service, but more importantly all through the stages of growth from startup to maturity. But even the best of them can easily slip into some bad decision habits that limit or hurt their busines
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Startup Professionals Musings: 7 Winning Business Writing Pointers For Entrepreneurs
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 1619 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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The Peter Principle Can Kill Your Business And Career
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 1620 days ago
As a former IBM executive, I used to think that big-company executives would be ideally skilled and experienced in business to run a small company or a startup. Yet that rarely happens, and when it does, like John Sculley moving from Pepsi to Apple, the results don’t turn out so positive. I see thi
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Startup Professionals Musings: 6 Habits to Become a More Empathetic Business Leader
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 1621 days ago
In my experience as a business and entrepreneur advisor over many years, I’m convinced that the days of the “command and control” business leader are gone. Your employees have higher expectations of you than just defining their job – they want inspiration, motivation, and purpose. They respond with
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How to Globalize the Silicon Valley Venture Model
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 1622 days ago
In my experience, the Silicon Valley startup model, focused on disrupting established industries, has treated the USA well and created some great global businesses. Yet many of you are telling me that we are all missing big opportunities by not recognizing the unique challenges faced by startups in
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Startup Professionals Musings: 6 Realities To Evaluate Your Outsourcing Alternatives
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 1623 days ago
Made Hot by: JoshRed on April 17, 2020 7:05 am
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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