For a few, delegating comes easily, maybe too easy. For others who are perfectionists, letting go of even the most trivial task is almost impossible. If you are in this second category, you probably don’t like the references behind your back that you are a “control freak” or a “micro-manager.”
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Startup Founders Walk a Thin Line on Delegation
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4880 days ago
Every Entrepreneur Needs to Outwit the Devil
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4881 days ago
“The devil in the details” is a quote that we have all heard, and clearly applies to startups, where success in the long run is all about execution. But for you as an entrepreneur trying to get started, the devil is really in your mind, where you must prevent drifting, and maintain that confidence,
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Ten Quotes Never Spoken By a Happy Entrepreneur
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4882 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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Entrepreneurs Confuse Product and Business Plans
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4883 days ago
Why is it that most of the business plans I see are really product plans? I define a product plan as a detailed description of your product or service, with a bit of business thrown in at the end. A business plan is a detailed description of your business, with a bit of product description thrown i
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Six Keys to Managing Your Reputation on the Web
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4884 days ago
Every startup fears that one angry and unfair customer who can jeopardize the business by a SCREAMING post on Ripoff Report, Yelp, or one of the hundreds of other consumer complaint and review sites on the Internet. Most entrepreneurs don’t even know how to keep track of what people are saying abou
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Entrepreneurs ‘Up The Ante’ With Parallel Startups
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4885 days ago
Maybe it’s just me, but I seem to be seeing more and more parallel entrepreneurs these days. These are people who are working on multiple startups concurrently. On the surface, this seems like an extremely difficult and dangerous practice, but for the new generations which have been multi-tasking s
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Six Reasons To Rethink Your Online Dating Site
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4886 days ago
Online dating sites usually fail because online dating usually fails. The simple reason is that everyone expects quick results, no one can make that happen, and users get very unhappy very quickly. Even the main industry rag, Online Dating Magazine, admits that the success rate is a mere one percen
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Finding the Right Business Mentor is Value Squared
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4887 days ago
Every first-time entrepreneur, or even an experienced founder stepping into a new business area, needs a mentor. Nothing you have ever done raises so many questions, or has the potential to be so fulfilling, or so risky, as starting a new business for the first time. A mentor is a confidant who has
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Startups Needed For Cloud Computing Gray Areas
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4888 days ago
Cloud computing is still all the rage in the business world these days. Yet I find that most business people don’t understand and fully trust it, and I defy even the technologists to define it in ten words or less for business people. Many say it’s just marketing hype applied to old principles that
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We Need More Gen-Y Entrepreneurs to Fuel the Wave
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4889 days ago
The business world has been watching this emerging generation with trepidation, and a lot of us haven’t been sure who would be the winners, and who would be the losers. Can they survive as entrepreneurs, and do they have the passion it takes to run a startup and attract investors?
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