Most entrepreneurs expect to face the “normal” challenges of starting a business, which include finding the right opportunity, building and executing a winning plan, and financing their venture. But many forget the pitfalls associated with traditional business jobs which can apply even to the smart
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Five Long-Term Pitfalls That Entrepreneurs Forget
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From http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4882 days ago
Use Pull Technology for Real Customer Enchantment
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From http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4883 days ago
Traditional marketing says you have to “push” your message out to customers, over and over again, to get it remembered. A more effective approach in today’s Internet and interactive culture is to use “pull” technology to bring customers and clients to your story. You pull people in by providing new
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Entrepreneurs Need to Find the Best ‘Curators’
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From http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4884 days ago
Every entrepreneur is flooded with information from all directions, but despite their best efforts to absorb it, they likely miss the information really needed to start a business. These days, we all have to rely on a few trusted sources to digest and filter information, net out the relevant messag
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The Best Entrepreneurs Have Some Common Traits
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From http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4884 days ago
Made Hot by: James John on March 18, 2011 4:00 pm
At some point in their life, hopefully everyone strives to be the best in their chosen profession. Most people think that being the best requires more intelligence, more training, and more experience. In reality, in business or even in sports, the evidence is conclusive that it is as much about how
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6 Ways to Make Your Viable Startup Unfundable
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From http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4886 days ago
New entrepreneurs often seem to confuse viability with fundability. Certainly a non-viable business should be not fundable, but many viable businesses are also not fundable. Thus when an investor declines your funding request, you need to curb your anger and understand the real reason for this outc
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Entrepreneurs, Manage Yourself, Then Your Startup
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From http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4887 days ago
People who can’t manage their own lives don’t make good entrepreneurs. Small businesses require multi-tasking, work prioritization, and decision-making, with no entourage of assistants and specialists. That’s why Fortune 500 executives usually don’t survive as startup CEOs.
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Ten Principles Which Spell Continuous Innovation
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From http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4888 days ago
Continuous innovation is required to survive in all businesses, beginning with your startup, and increasing in importance as your business matures. Technologists often insist that new things can’t be invented on a schedule, but successful companies seem to be able to do it on a regular basis.
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Entrepreneurial Funding is Not an Entitlement
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From http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4889 days ago
Where did this pervasive sense of entitlement in our culture come from? I’ve written about this before, but I was surprised again recently at a conference for startups when a couple of entrepreneurs started berating investors for their low rate of funding for early-stage startups. It sounded a bit
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Entrepreneurs Need Fewer Hot Ideas and More Plans
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From http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4890 days ago
Based on my own experience and feedback from friends, every investor is approached by at least ten entrepreneurs with a “hot idea” for a new business, for every one who has a real “plan” for a new business. That’s why I often say that ideas are worth nothing, until they are put in the context of a
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Eight Key Problems Every Startup Should Anticipate
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From http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4891 days ago
Starting a business is a lot like starting a marriage. At first, all parties are in dreamland, with a vision of changing the world, having lots of fun, and raking in the profits. But all too soon, reality sets in. Product development is stuck at that 90% mark, a key person leaves, and customers are
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