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 Ways To Make Your Venture A Company That Matters
Matter: Move Beyond the Competition, Create More Value, and Become the Obvious Choice First define where you uniquely can add the most customer value. Read more
Posted on 15 January 2016 BUSINESS, CAREER -
9 Actions Make You A Leader People Want to Follow
Creating Contagious Leadershipstartup Spotlight leadership acts of others. This is the habit of focusing attention, directly or indirectly, on leadership effort... Read more
Posted on 13 January 2016 BUSINESS, CAREER -
6 Prerequisites For Turning Your Passion Into Profits
Reality check your potential for building a business. Some people are passionate inventors or idea generators but really have no interest, skills or money for... Read more
Posted on 11 January 2016 BUSINESS, CAREER -
6 Ways Startups Are Fooled By Prior Business Models
Dead Companies Walking Anticipating success based on the recent past. This fallacy, often called historical myopia, essentially involves extrapolating only... Read more
Posted on 10 January 2016 BUSINESS, CAREER -
7 Skills to Thrive, Not Just Survive, in Any Career
Accept change as the only constant in business. Conforming to the way things have always been done in a company is a career killer as well as a company killer. Read more
Posted on 09 January 2016 BUSINESS, CAREER -
Your Success At Work Depends On Peer Relationships
Who’s That Sitting at My Desk? Acquaintanceship. Every business relationship, peer-to-peer, or inside to outside, starts as an introduction and formal... Read more
Posted on 08 January 2016 BUSINESS, CAREER -
10 Actions That Will Transform You From Good To Great
leading by exampleLead By Example: 50 Ways Great Leaders Inspire Results Demonstrate character. In the dictionary definition, character is said to be “the stabl... Read more
Posted on 06 January 2016 BUSINESS, CAREER -
7 Ways to Bootstrap Your Business to Success
80 percent Stick to a business domain you know and love. Starting a new business in an area where you have no experience, just because it appears to have great... Read more
Posted on 04 January 2016 BUSINESS, CAREER -
5 Key Actions To Maximize Entrepreneur Productivity
The 5 Choices: The Path to Extraordinary Productivity, Act on the important, don’t react to the urgent. Filter the vitally important business priorities from th... Read more
Posted on 03 January 2016 BUSINESS, CAREER -
Smart Startups Don’t Try To Satisfy Every Customer
Everyone who expresses interest is not necessarily a customer. Everyone on your team needs to be trained to recognize prospects who match your target customer... Read more
Posted on 02 January 2016 BUSINESS, CAREER -
10 New Year’s Resolutions To Be A Happy Entrepreneur
study Do what you love and love what you do. The right reason to start a business is not the money, challenge, or the prestige, but the chance to follow your... Read more
Posted on 01 January 2016 BUSINESS, CAREER -
10 Leadership Traits That Can Damage Your Business
entrepreneurs Multitasking to the extent of thrashing. Entrepreneurs often have a thousand things going in their mind, and switch so rapidly from one to the... Read more
Posted on 30 December 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
The Only Thing Not to Fear Is Success Itself
You need to be in control of every detail. Control freaks find it hard to survive as entrepreneurs, primarily because none of us have the time or skills to do... Read more
Posted on 28 December 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
6 Reasons Why Bigger Is Not Better In Your Startup
Time to market is tied to the size of your offering. In many business domains today, the market seems to change about every ninety days. Read more
Posted on 27 December 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
6 Keys To Make Sure Your Product Fits Today's World
Rube Goldberghydrogen sector Keep up on business issues as diligently as on technology issues. Most technologists pride themselves on their link to relevant... Read more
Posted on 26 December 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
It’s Time To Design Human Experiences Versus Products
X: The Experience When Business Meets DesignUser-Centered Design (UCD) Apply multidisciplinary skills and perspectives. The total experience design begins with ... Read more
Posted on 25 December 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
10 ‘Best Of Breed’ Marketing Practices For Startups
SoLoMoSell Local, Think Global Pinpoint your Unique Value Proposition (UVP). These days it is often more about being unique than being valuable. Read more
Posted on 23 December 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
Are You 'Intelligent' Enough to Be an Entrepreneur?
Image via Flickr by tinto sourcesdefinitions Word-smarts (linguistic intelligence). People with a high linguistic intelligence display a high facility for word... Read more
Posted on 21 December 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
6 Ways To Keep Your Team Happier And More Productive
Harvard Business ReviewFortuneThe Best Place To Work Reward frequency is more important than size. Business feedback indicates that smaller frequent positive... Read more
Posted on 20 December 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
6 Questions To Validate A Digital Marketing Message
Image via Flickr by socialautomotive Taking Down Goliath How does this solution solve an existing problem? Every business faces challenges that affect their... Read more
Posted on 19 December 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER