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10 Top Reasons For First-time Entrepreneur Failure
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4368 days ago
Based on my experience as a mentor and an entrepreneur, if you fail on your first startup, you are about average. That’s not bad, but who wants to be average? Every young entrepreneur knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Statistics show that the failure rate for new startups w
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An IPO Exit Strategy Puts the Entrepreneur at Risk
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4369 days ago
Many entrepreneurs still dream of “going public,” making billions of dollars, and playing with the big boys. They don’t realize that this option would likely be their worst nightmare, since it costs millions for the road show, usually dilutes your equity to a tiny fraction, and takes away all your
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Good Entrepreneur Decisions Require a Good Process
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4370 days ago
Every so often a promising entrepreneur seems to freeze in the oncoming headlights and gets run over by his competition. Why is it that his idea which seemed so fundable only months ago fails to attract investors today? The team is the same. The company's market is the same.
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Too Many Small Businesses Still Ignore Social Media
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4371 days ago
Made Hot by: sannwood on October 1, 2012 4:36 pm
When my friend’s small business was struggling a while back, I suggested he add some social media marketing initiatives, and his answer was that he was “too busy.” His business has since closed, but his mindset is still out there. According to a recent Harvard Business Review article, only 60% of c
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8 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Master the Creative Mind
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4372 days ago
An entrepreneur is literally “one who creates a new business.” The best new businesses are ones that have never been done before, so mastering creativity and recognizing creativity are key skills and mind-sets. But how does one recognize and nurture creativity in a person or team?
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How to Create a Culture Shift in the Age of Illogic
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4373 days ago
I’m a very logical guy, so I still fondly remember when new solutions and technologies started trends on the basis of their logical strengths. In today’s world, it seems that emotion, not logic, sparks the new trends that become culture, and drives our devotion or disappointment in new products and
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How to Relate Your Technology to Business Values
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4374 days ago
Presenting your startup vision as a founder to a potential investor, or presenting an idea as an employee to an executive, requires that you effectively communicate, or “translate”, the value proposition into terms that the receiver can fully understand and appreciate. If you fail, it’s your loss,
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Add Startups to Balance Your Portfolio, If You Dare
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4375 days ago
Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. First of all, it’s more of an investment in people than in a business, since the startup is usually an idea barely half-baked when they need your money. Secondly, the
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9 Keys to Adding Street Smarts to Your Book Smarts
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4376 days ago
Creating a startup, or managing any business, is all about problem solving. Some people are good at it and some are not – independent of their IQ or their book smarts (there may even be an inverse relationship here). Yet I’m convinced that problem solving is a learnable trait, rather than just a bi
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How Many Startup Stock Options are Enough?
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4377 days ago
Wouldn’t you like to be one of the lucky people who joined Google and Facebook when these were startups, and now be a multi-millionaire? So people ask me “How many shares should I ask for when I join a startup today?” In reality, the number of shares doesn’t mean anything – it’s your percent of the
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