Almost every early-stage startup who has approached investors for funding has heard the innocuous sounding rejection “I love your idea, but come back when you have more traction.” What does traction really mean to investors, and how much is enough? Let me try to clarify the rules, and what it takes
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Startup Professionals Musings: 7 Ways To Preclude The Most Common Investor Rejection
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 1108 days ago
Made Hot by: SimplySmallBiz on September 18, 2021 2:22 pm
Startup Professionals Musings: 5 Ways To Plan for Business Change Before the Crisis
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 1109 days ago
Made Hot by: profmarketing on September 17, 2021 8:25 am
Based on my experience as a business advisor, most businesses don’t think about the need for change until a crisis occurs. This might be the recognition that competitors are surpassing your own results, financial growth has disappeared, or the pandemic has eliminated loyal customers. Only then do t
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5 Strategies To Thrive In Customer-Driven Disruption
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 1110 days ago
In my experience as a business consultant, I find than most people still believe that technology drives business disruption. I’m more convinced that technology merely enables disruption, and changing customer interests and needs really causes it. Many companies try to recover with more advertising
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Startup Professionals Musings: 5 Ways To Solve More Problems And Grow Your Business
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 1111 days ago
Made Hot by: centrifugePR on September 15, 2021 9:02 am
As a long-time business advisor, and an investor in startups along the way, I’m always on the lookout for an entrepreneur who is responding first to a problem in the marketplace, rather than bringing a new technology to the market, assuming it will find a problem to solve. I assert that problem sol
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How The Right Employees Have An Innovation Advantage
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 1112 days ago
Conventional business wisdom tells us that entrepreneurs are today’s main source of innovation. We see the stories of young founders leaving college with a big idea, going to work in their garage, and building something that changes the world. We hear about corporate employees, strangled by slow-mo
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Startup Professionals Musings: 5 Startup Environments That Can Spiral Out Of Control
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 1113 days ago
Made Hot by: robinandy58 on September 13, 2021 10:41 am
Most entrepreneurs start their company with the highest of ideals, and wouldn’t dream of building one with a culture of indifference 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
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Startup Professionals Musings: 10 Keys To The Teamwork Required To Run Your Business
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 1114 days ago
Made Hot by: OpenSourceMedia on September 10, 2021 12:40 pm
Any entrepreneur with a vision can postulate a new business, but it takes a collaboration of many people to make it a success. Today the complexity of forces required for success include multi-disciplinary skills, competencies, and experiences in which the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
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Startup Professionals Musings: 5 Attributes To Look For In Your Perfect Startup Idea
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 1115 days ago
Made Hot by: mikehartman1 on September 9, 2021 11:06 am
Every entrepreneur wishes that he could predict whether his idea could be the “next big thing,” before he spent his life savings and years of energy on it. Investors, on the other hand, typically don’t even look very hard at the product or service, but prefer to evaluate first the entrepreneur, and
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Startup Professionals Musings: 7 Keys To Being An Exceptional Business Leader Today
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 1116 days ago
Made Hot by: businessgross on September 7, 2021 6:42 am
Not so long ago, business leaders operated behind the scenes, and even long-time employees rarely heard from them or saw them in the news. Today, with the Internet and social media, if you aren’t visible in a positive way to everyone, including customers, your leadership efforts will be lost. To be
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6 New Organizational Lessons From Amazon and Alibaba
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 1117 days ago
In my current role as a business consultant, I still find that most companies, large and small, organize themselves wholly based on what goes on inside the company, rather than looking outside – at their networks, their partners, and the niche they wish to dominate. The result is a hierarchy and a
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