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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6 Steps To Refocus Your Business On Customer Delight
Driven to Delight Start with an overriding top-down focus on customer experience. The right message must be delivered from the top, by your words and your... Read more
Posted on 12 February 2016 BUSINESS, CAREER -
10 Survival Strategies From Winning Team Leaders
Leading at the Edge Never lose sight of long-term goals, but focus real energy on short-term objectives. Don’t be afraid to pivot, and commit to new objectives... Read more
Posted on 10 February 2016 BUSINESS, CAREER -
Entrepreneurs Need More Relationships And Fewer Friends
Successful entrepreneurs understand the difference between a good business relationship with more people and having more friends. Read more
Posted on 08 February 2016 BUSINESS, CAREER -
6 Critical Steps To A Winning Company Culture
Cultural Transformations Culture starts by thinking different and thinking big at the top. In the midst of daily crises and information overload, it takes a... Read more
Posted on 07 February 2016 BUSINESS, CAREER -
10 Steps To Becoming A Thought Leader In Business
Successful entrepreneurs often start with a “random” idea, but they quickly focus their efforts and follow a “system” to organize their startup and maximize... Read more
Posted on 06 February 2016 BUSINESS, CAREER -
7 Steps to Master the Art of Persuasion
Psychology Today Repetition is the key to getting people’s attention. Many entrepreneurs mistakenly assume that their passion will cause their message to... Read more
Posted on 05 February 2016 BUSINESS, CAREER -
10 Tactics To Reduce Your Startup Success Timeline
The Execution Shortcut Facilitate small choices that get you closer to the finish line. Provide prioritization guidelines to align day-to-day choices with the... Read more
Posted on 03 February 2016 BUSINESS, CAREER -
8 Reasons To Incorporate Your New Company Early
Isolate your new startup business from your personal accounts. By default, these domains are totally intermingled, which will lead you to manage both poorly. Read more
Posted on 01 February 2016 BUSINESS, CAREER -
10 Creativity Barriers To Overcome In Your Business
Creativity at Work: Supercharge Your Brain and Make Your Ideas Stick Just use the data metrics. Shocking statistics, like unexpected losses last quarter, can... Read more
Posted on 31 January 2016 BUSINESS, CAREER -
8 Essential Attributes of a Successful Mindset
Vision of providing real customer and social value. I still see too many startups driven by founders who have a solution looking for a problem. Read more
Posted on 30 January 2016 BUSINESS, CAREER -
7 Counter-Intuitive Insights On How To Get Things Done
StudiesThe Productivity Project Slow down and work more deliberately. For most people, trying to work faster means trying to do multiple things concurrently. Read more
Posted on 29 January 2016 BUSINESS, CAREER -
Getting A Software Patent Is Valuable But Frustrating
For a software startup, a patent can be the intellectual property providing the key competitive advantage, or it can be an expensive non-defensible... Read more
Posted on 27 January 2016 BUSINESS, CAREER -
8 Initiatives To Make Your Customers Loyal Advocates
observersForrester report It all starts with the right people on your team. Make sure you only hire top-notch employees who can relate to the demographics of... Read more
Posted on 25 January 2016 BUSINESS, CAREER -
7 Writing Rules Eliminate Any Failure To Communicate
Get to the point in the first sentence. In this age of data overload, everyone has learned to tune out if they can’t quickly decipher a relevant purpose and... Read more
Posted on 24 January 2016 BUSINESS, CAREER -
10 Proactive Ways to Build Engagement From Your Team
Conversations for Creating Star Performers Build awareness of expectations. Conversations about what effective performance looks and sounds like are an obvious... Read more
Posted on 23 January 2016 BUSINESS, CAREER -
8 Practices To Galvanize Innovation In Your Startup
Larry Downes and Paul NunesAdvancing Innovation: Galvanizing, Enabling & Measuring for Innovation Value! Surround yourself with a great team. Get the right... Read more
Posted on 22 January 2016 BUSINESS, CAREER -
6 Ways To Prevent Disastrous Outsourcing Decisions
Don’t give someone else control of your competitive advantage. If your software or your manufacturing process is your “secret sauce,” you need to keep the work... Read more
Posted on 20 January 2016 BUSINESS, CAREER -
7 Ways Due Diligence Helps Before Final Commitment
Most entrepreneurs work long and hard to get a handshake agreement from an investor, and then tend to relax and wait for the check to clear. Read more
Posted on 18 January 2016 BUSINESS, CAREER -
Is Your Startup Growing Too Quickly For Cash Flow?
D&B; Small Business Failure to document cash flow projections is a disaster. No matter how small your company is today, there are more moving financial parts... Read more
Posted on 17 January 2016 BUSINESS, CAREER -
When Will Siri Make That Dinner Reservation for You?
Tim Berners-LeeSemantic Web Easy and effective communication ability. In order to carry out requested tasks, a personal assistant has to first understand what i... Read more
Posted on 16 January 2016 BUSINESS, CAREER