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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Business Professionals Can Be The New Entrepreneurs
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 3305 days ago
Realistic Strategies For Funding Product Development
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 3307 days ago
Angel investors and venture capitalists are looking for startups with real products and a proven business model, ready to scale. Yet I still get too many business plans that clearly are looking for money to do research and development (R&D) on a new and unproven technology. If you need funding for
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Are You Mentally Tough Enough To Be An Entrepreneur?
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 3308 days ago
Made Hot by: Webdev1 on April 15, 2015 7:40 am
You have to be extra tough mentally to be an entrepreneur. While thinking about it, I realized that it’s really not that different from the toughness required and trained into America’s elite military force of Navy SEALs, who are known to be cool under fire, able to sense danger before it’s too lat
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Avoid The Entrepreneur Role If These Quotes Fit You
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 3309 days ago
Some people are not cut out to be entrepreneurs. This is a good thing, or the business world would be chaos, with everyone trying to do their own thing. So what about you? How do you know if you should be running your own company, or concentrating on that queue of work that someone else has built f
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5 Principles For Deriving Winning Business Insights
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 3310 days ago
Made Hot by: profmarketing on April 14, 2015 11:22 am
I often hear the popular notion that successful entrepreneurs are built from a single heroic insight or a single innovation. This is just plain wrong. The business world is a symphony of players and elements that only works when everything interconnects harmoniously. Continuous innovation and conti
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10 Steps To Finding The Right Startup Co-Founder
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 3314 days ago
A common challenge faced by every entrepreneur is that they don’t have the bandwidth, interest or skills to do everything that is required to build their startup. Of course, they can outsource part of the work or hire employees, but that approach means more time and money to manage the work, which
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5 Ways To Boost Productivity And Minimize Negativity
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 3315 days ago
Made Hot by: maestro68 on April 8, 2015 9:57 am
Throughout my career in small companies and large, I’ve always been appalled by the number of people who have a negative attitude or complain all of the time. These people don’t seem to realize that they are hurting themselves, as well as other people’s productivity, and jeopardize the future of th
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5 Tips For Startups To Win With Social Media
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 3316 days ago
Made Hot by: robinandy58 on April 6, 2015 3:37 pm
Social media is so pervasive in today’s world that every entrepreneur believes instinctively that they know how to use it for their startup. Many soon find that what you do in a personal context doesn’t necessarily translate to your business, and measuring business value is quite different from mea
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7 Entrepreneur Types Drive Change On A Global Scale
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 3317 days ago
Made Hot by: NolanGreen on April 7, 2015 9:49 am
By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Yet very few achieve that great aspiration of really driving economic, social, and environmental changes
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10 Paths Which Often Lead To Early Business Failure
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 3319 days ago
Made Hot by: leonesimmy on April 4, 2015 1:36 pm
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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