In my business of mentoring new entrepreneurs and advising small company owners, I recognize that most don’t start as experienced leaders, and most don’t realize that people leadership is a primary key to their future success. Building a business is not a one-person job, and leading by edict rarely
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Startup Professionals Musings: 5 Priorities For New Business Leader Self-Development
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 1677 days ago
Made Hot by: thecorneroffice on February 21, 2020 3:00 pm
Startup Professionals Musings: 6 Challenges In Penetrating The New World Of Services
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 1679 days ago
Selling services has always been about relationships, but the challenges of building relationships with services clients have exploded. Customers today extrapolate their relationships not only from personal contact, but from every aspect of their interface with your company, including web site and
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Startup Professionals Musings: 7 Ways Growing Companies Drift From Startup Thinking
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 1680 days ago
Made Hot by: NolanGreen on February 19, 2020 3:07 pm
Every new venture that survives the first five years starts to drift away from their entrepreneurial thinking, and assumes they have achieved the path to longevity. In fact, even within Fortune 100 companies, almost 90 percent have encountered growth stalls or flirted with failure, or worse, in the
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Startup Professionals Musings: 10 Timeless First Principles Of A Prosperous Business
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 1681 days ago
Made Hot by: SimplySmallBiz on February 18, 2020 11:38 am
In this world of constant change, new technologies, and a thousand cultures, it’s evident and somehow comforting to me that the basic rules for business prosperity really haven’t changed in the last hundred years. Business success is still more about the people than the technology or idea involved.
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Startup Professionals Musings: 5 Strategies For Startup Partnering To Win Long Term
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 1682 days ago
Made Hot by: fundpr on February 17, 2020 4:52 am
Business partnerships have traditionally been agreements to drive more transactions than either company could do alone. The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something no
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6 Ways To Incent Breakthrough Innovation In Your Team
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 1683 days ago
Breakthrough innovation is the dream of every entrepreneur, but it’s still a scarce commodity. Selecting and nurturing people who are likely to help you in this regard is an even more elusive capability, and one that every angel investor, like myself, wishes he could get a lock on. In fact, every m
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Startup Professionals Musings: 6 Personal Assessment Tools To Optimize Career Growth
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 1684 days ago
Made Hot by: OpenSourceMedia on February 15, 2020 3:36 pm
Too many people, young and older, let their career and their lifestyle happen to them, rather than proactively making things happen based on their personal passions, skills, and interests. Others make decisions based on someone else’s interests, such as the father who wants his son to take over the
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Startup Professionals Musings: 7 Business Leadership Keys To A Thriving New Venture
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 1686 days ago
Made Hot by: maestro68 on February 13, 2020 5:49 am
One of the realities of being an entrepreneur is that you have to keep learning and changing to survive. Everyone on the startup team knows there is no buffer, and no personal isolation from impact based on your job description that can save you. Thus everyone has to make sure they are focusing on
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Startup Professionals Musings: 6 Team Members Who Will Make Your New Venture Robust
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 1687 days ago
In my years of advising startups and occasional investing, I’ve seen many great ideas start and fail, but the right team always seems to make good things happen, even without the ultimate idea. That’s why investors say they invest in people (bet on the jockey, not the horse), rather than the idea.
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Startup Professionals Musings: 5 Ways To Sample The Joy Of An Entrepreneur Lifestyle
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 1689 days ago
Made Hot by: PMVirtual on February 11, 2020 6:44 am
Even though I’m a big proponent of becoming an entrepreneur, it is definitely not for everyone. Unfortunately the success and lavish lifestyle of some current well-known entrepreneurs, including Richard Branson and Elon Musk, lead many who are not so well prepared to jump in with both feet, only to
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