A popular myth these days is that finishing college only dilutes your entrepreneurial instincts, and the best of the best, including Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg, dropped out early to hasten their success. I agree with Robert E. Litan, former VP of research at the Kauffman Foundation,
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7 Ways College Degrees Can Expedite Startup Success
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2155 days ago
5 Key Elements Of A Winning Business Strategy Today
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2156 days ago
Made Hot by: thecorneroffice on November 7, 2018 9:26 am
Does your business have a visible positive strategy, or do your customers and employees still see your primary focus as closing more sales and killing competitors? Certainly that has been the strategy of many companies, and has worked in the past, but today’s customers and workers are looking for m
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7 Strategies To Create Your Own Market And Win Bigger
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2157 days ago
Made Hot by: JoshRed on October 30, 2018 11:02 am
New technology markets and paradigm shifts have traditionally been bad bets when seeking investors, since these were known to take decades to develop, and cost lots of money. For example, consider how many years it took for the market to move from radio to television, or fully accept personal compu
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Even the Best Startup Solutions Need Modern Marketing
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2159 days ago
Made Hot by: bloggerpalooza on October 28, 2018 8:47 am
As a long-time advisor to aspiring entrepreneurs, and a technology fan myself, I still meet dozens of techies with great solutions who assume they don’t need marketing to change the world. They subscribe to the myth that “if we build it, they will come.” In fact, with today’s information overload,
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7 New Venture Scenarios That Rarely Attract Investors
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2161 days ago
If you aren’t willing to take some risk as an entrepreneur, then don’t expect any gain. Yet everyone has limits, and every investor implicitly has similar limits on what makes a startup investable, or one to avoid at all costs. If you need investors, it’s important that you understand their filters
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7 Keys To Timely And Compelling New Venture Progress
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2162 days ago
Made Hot by: LimeWood on October 24, 2018 12:13 pm
One of the most important skills for every entrepreneur is timely and effective decision making. In a startup, any decision is better than no decision. One of the primary roles of every founder is to solve problems, make a decision, and manage the decision to results. The best entrepreneurs relish
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8 Key Skill Sets Required For Success In Your Startup
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2163 days ago
Made Hot by: sundaydriver on October 22, 2018 5:17 pm
n my experience in large businesses as well as years of advising startups, I see far too much focus on product skills, and too little on people and process skills. In my view, this focus on the wrong skill set is the primary reason why over half of new businesses fail in the first five years, and o
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7 Push-Backs That New Venture Founders Must Overcome
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2164 days ago
In business, and in your personal life, the ability to anticipate and overcome criticism is one of the biggest differentiators between leaders, who make things happen, and followers, who may have great ideas but never seem to get things to go their way. In fact, leaders are not remembered for their
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6 Story Attributes Will Highlight Your Business Pitch
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2168 days ago
Made Hot by: centrifugePR on October 19, 2018 10:24 am
The biggest challenge for every entrepreneur and every startup today is to get noticed and remembered in today’s information overload. The number of entrepreneurs worldwide is huge, starting an estimated 50 million new businesses per year, or 137,000 per day. Every one of these probably has a uniqu
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Businesses Need Employee Engagement More Than Process
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2169 days ago
Made Hot by: bloggerpalooza on October 17, 2018 6:37 am
The days of leadership without engagement are gone. With interactive social media and video everywhere, everyone needs to feel they have a relationship with their leaders, and every brand needs leader personification for customers to relate. Soon you won’t be able to name a business as one of your
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