In a corporate environment, the focus of a job interview has long been demonstrating your match to the skills and experience outlined in the job description. In my experience with small businesses, that is still necessary, but not sufficient. Today’s business world has become totally customer drive
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10 Attributes Of The Ideal Small Business Team Member
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 123 days ago
7 Top Attributes Of The Most Impressive Business Leaders
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 125 days ago
In my years of working with new business founders, I have heard many times the promise that their new idea will create the next Amazon or Apple, but I rarely hear the more important promise that the founder will practice all the good habits of winning business leaders like Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs
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7 Keys To Pursuing The Best New Business Idea For You
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 126 days ago
A common request I hear from aspiring new business founders is for an assessment of their latest idea. I don’t even try to critique things at the idea level, since I can’t read minds to fill in the details. I can evaluate execution plans, if you have any. Yet I believe that business success is more
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5 Existing Business Warning Signs That Can Lead To Failure
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 134 days ago
Most business founders start their company with the highest of ideals and wouldn’t dream of building one with a culture of apathy or downright unethical behavior. Yet all too many succumb to the pressures of survival, driven by demanding investors or a cutthroat competitive environment. How does a
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8 Strategies For Success Using Remote On-Demand Teams
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.inc.com 137 days ago
With the pace of change ever escalating, business owners today can't afford to acquire talent through traditional hiring and need to revise the perception that "talent" is only full-time office employees. More and more people in the workforce don't want to be resident employees. More than 40 percen
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6 Insights Generate Breakthrough Business Ideas
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 137 days ago
As an enthusiastic early-stage investor in new business ideas, I have always been surprised that some founders who appeared to have a great idea and were doing everything right still failed, while others with “far out” ideas and tactics managed to succeed. I’ve become convinced that the difference
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5 Ways To Increase Your Resilience To Business Challenges
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 140 days ago
You can’t survive as a new business founder without resilience, because you are going to fail at least once, maybe multiple times. That’s the nature of trying something that’s never been done before. Resilience means not giving up and being energized by what you have learned. As Thomas Edison said,
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5 Ways to Maximize the Value of Early Product Adopters
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.inc.com 141 days ago
Every technical business founder I mentor is an early adopter of technology, so naturally, they build things with people like themselves in mind. Unfortunately, for most solution markets early adopters represent only 10 to 15 percent of the total opportunity, so it's easy to get misled about the re
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5 Strategies For Building Productive Business Relationships
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 142 days ago
One of the things I have learned from working in many businesses, big and small, is that people are the key to success, rather than any specific business model or innovative product. People and their personalities determine how decisions are made that drive business. The better you can read people
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5 Keys to a Positive and Evolving Strategy for Business Leadership
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.inc.com 143 days ago
Does your business have a visible positive strategy, or do your customers and employees still see your primary focus as closing more sales and killing competitors? Certainly, that has been the strategy of many companies and has worked in the past, but today's customers and workers are looking for m
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