As an angel investor in early-stage startups, I’ve long noticed my peers apparent bias toward the strength and character of the founding entrepreneurs, often overriding a strong solution to a painful problem with a big opportunity. In other words, the entrepreneur quality is more important than the
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8 CEO Traits That People See As Strength Of Character
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2313 days ago
7 Accelerants For Team Learning And Business Growth
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2315 days ago
We all want opportunities to learn, experiment, and grow in our jobs, but most bosses and businesses tend to seek out and reward team members who already know how to do the job, and can repeat the task without fail as the business scales. I believe this is the conundrum that leads sadly to less tha
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Entrepreneurs Can Capitalize On The New Gig Economy
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2316 days ago
The era of stable lifetime jobs for business professionals within a single company are gone. Companies are rightsized quickly now as markets change rapidly, and business professionals are quick to jump to new opportunities for growth and survival, with no ties to special benefits or pension plans.
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7 Benefits of Promoting Your Dream Before Building It
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2317 days ago
Made Hot by: MarketWiz on May 22, 2018 8:13 am
It’s still popular these days for startup founders to operate in stealth mode, meaning no details about the idea or progress are shared with anyone until the big reveal and rollout. The common reason given is that this prevents any competitor from stealing their idea and beating them to market. In
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8 Early Indications Of Trouble Ahead For Your Venture
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2318 days ago
As a company executive, or a business advisor, we have to always be on the alert for indications that your business, while looking calm on the surface, has strong undercurrents starting that can lead to disaster. You don’t want to be in one of those high-flying companies, like Webvan, Pets.com, and
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8 Ways To Test The Depth Of A Startup Before Joining
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2320 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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8 Keys To Successfully Bootstrapping Your New Venture
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2322 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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10 New Venture Strategies That Often Lead To Disaster
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2323 days ago
Made Hot by: Webdev1 on May 16, 2018 8:23 am
Every entrepreneur I know has their favorite excuse for a previous failure – an investor backed out, the economy took a downturn, or a supplier delivered bad quality. These things outside your control do happen, but based on my years of experience as a startup advisor and angel investor, I still se
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5 Key Successes Will Sustain Entrepreneur Inspiration
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2324 days ago
Many experts are certain that successful entrepreneurs are the ones with the most inspiration (passion and dream), while others will assert that it’s about more perspiration (working harder). In my experience, both are always required in heavy doses. There are no “can’t fail” shortcuts or “get rich
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5 Leadership Practices That Violate Natural Instincts
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2325 days ago
Even though we all know that success in business means taking risks on new and unproven innovations, we are still creatures of habit, programmed by evolution to favor the safe and familiar. Thus following your natural instincts and intuition in growing your business is often the worst thing you can
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