Martin Zwilling
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Startup Professionals Musings
http://blog.startupprofessionals.com/
Selected ideas and assistance to entrepreneurs and startup founders in finding business ideas, funding, executive mentoring, and business networking to incorporate a business, file patents, add an advisory board, and address operational issues.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 3466 )
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8 Attributes Of The Most Creative Startup Founders
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... Read more
Posted on 18 September 2017 BUSINESS, CAREER -
Tips On How To Approach Tough Decisions In Business
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... Read more
Posted on 17 September 2017 BUSINESS, CAREER -
10 Steps To Investing Successfully In New Ventures
Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. Read more
Posted on 16 September 2017 BUSINESS, CAREER -
7 Effective Approaches For Navigating Office Politics
Running a business would be so much easier if we didn’t have to deal with office politics. Every business professional not only have to deal with their own... Read more
Posted on 15 September 2017 BUSINESS, CAREER -
10 Steps To Scaling Your Startup Toward A Fortune 500
Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. After celebrating success at that level, they often find... Read more
Posted on 13 September 2017 BUSINESS, CAREER -
10 Negatives That Still Make Going Public A High Risk
In the old days, every entrepreneur dreamed of easily taking their startup public, and making it big. Today the rate of startups going public (IPO – Initial... Read more
Posted on 11 September 2017 BUSINESS, CAREER -
7 Action Items For Introverts Starting New Ventures
You can’t win as an entrepreneur working alone. You need to have business relationships with team members, investors, customers, and a myriad of other support... Read more
Posted on 10 September 2017 BUSINESS, CAREER -
7 Cultural Myths That Can Destroy Your Moral Compass
New entrepreneurs tend to focus only on getting the product right, and assume that the right culture and ethics will come later simply by hiring good people. Read more
Posted on 09 September 2017 BUSINESS, CAREER -
Are You Involved With Business, Or Fully Committed?
In my role as advisor to small businesses, I often think of the old joke, “In a bacon-and-egg breakfast, the chicken is very involved, but the pig is committed. Read more
Posted on 08 September 2017 BUSINESS, CAREER -
7 Ways To Be The New Venture Leader Investors Seek
In the beginning all businesses are just people playing out an idea. It’s never the other way around – there is no idea so big that it doesn’t need people to... Read more
Posted on 06 September 2017 BUSINESS, CAREER -
6 Symptoms Of A Dysfunction That Can Kill Your Dream
Founders almost always cite lack of money as the reason for failure, but if you look deeper, I believe the reason is more often about dysfunctional people and... Read more
Posted on 04 September 2017 BUSINESS, CAREER -
Startup Marketing Should Skip Traditional Advertising
The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid... Read more
Posted on 03 September 2017 BUSINESS, CAREER -
Can Your Business Survive The Traditional Life Cycle?
Successful startups seem to follow similar paths to greatness, and unfortunately all too often that path leads them back down the hill much faster than they wen... Read more
Posted on 02 September 2017 BUSINESS, CAREER -
8 Steps From A Control Freak To Effective Delegator
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. Read more
Posted on 01 September 2017 BUSINESS, CAREER -
7 Leadership Metaphors To Motivate Business Leaders
In building successful businesses, I find that creating a new and innovative product or service is usually the easy part. The hard part is providing the... Read more
Posted on 30 August 2017 BUSINESS, CAREER -
5 Reasons Every Smart Business Owner Seeks A Mentor
Advice is cheap. As a new business owner, you don’t have to take any advice you hear, but failing to listen and learn from someone’s prior experience can cost... Read more
Posted on 28 August 2017 BUSINESS, CAREER -
8 Principles For Keeping Customers With You For Life
Most businesses spend big money testing their brand logo, catchy marketing phrases, and demographics, but spend little time training and validating that their... Read more
Posted on 27 August 2017 BUSINESS, CAREER -
10 Principles For Surviving New Business Challenges
As the economy flourishes after some tough economic times, more and more people seem to be turning to entrepreneurship as an alternative to traditional... Read more
Posted on 26 August 2017 BUSINESS, CAREER -
8 Ways The Maker Movement Turns Ideas Into Businesses
In case you haven’t noticed it, the rapid evolution of do-it-yourself (DIY) facilities for developers, including 3-D printers, SketchUp and makerspaces such as... Read more
Posted on 25 August 2017 BUSINESS, CAREER -
8 Keys To Raising Your Level Of Employee Engagement
As a business advisor, one of the most disheartening things I see in business today is a serious lack of engagement at all levels, consistent with Gallup’s... Read more
Posted on 23 August 2017 BUSINESS, CAREER