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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Be A Winning Entrepreneur In The New Sharing Economy
The pervasive ability and need to communicate constantly and globally through the Internet and smartphones is incenting everyone to get more out of their own... Read more
Posted on 08 May 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
5 Steps To Becoming A Great Business Problem Solver
Perhaps sparked by the recession recovery, I’m seeing a new era of the entrepreneur, with startups springing up all around. Based on my own mentoring and... Read more
Posted on 06 May 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
6 Practical Steps To Learning How To Build A Startup
Despite the rush in every academic institution to offer more courses on entrepreneurship, I still haven’t found it to be something you can learn in school. Read more
Posted on 04 May 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
10 Required Actions To Make Startup Mentoring Work
Every entrepreneur can learn from a mentor, no matter how confident or successful they have been to date. Most people don’t know that billionaire Mark... Read more
Posted on 03 May 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
10 Tips For Startups To Survive The Current Turmoil
A perfect storm is an expression that describes an event where a rare combination of circumstances aggravate an environment drastically. Read more
Posted on 02 May 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
Success In Any Business Is All About Accountability
Most business managers preach that the key to success is holding employees accountable for actions, but I have found that successful entrepreneurs are all... Read more
Posted on 01 May 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
6 Steps To Convert An Idea To A Sustainable Business
It seems like everyone wants to be an entrepreneur and get rich these days. As a business mentor, I sometimes feel besieged by people begging for my view and... Read more
Posted on 29 April 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
5 Ways To Improve Startup Founder Team Productivity
If you are like most entrepreneurs I know, there just aren’t enough hours in a day to get all your own work done, as well as run the many one-hour meetings... Read more
Posted on 27 April 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
6 Ways To Drive Success Through Customer Experience
Not so long ago, every business assumed that the keys to success were the highest quality product, the best value for the buck, and the best customer service.... Read more
Posted on 26 April 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
8 Reasons To Initiate A Startup While Job Searching
If you are one of the many professionals still trapped between jobs by circumstances outside your control, or are about to dump the loser job you have now, you... Read more
Posted on 25 April 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
Why Investors Rank New Businesses By Leader Quality
As an Angel investor in early-stage startups, I’ve long noticed my peers’ apparent bias toward the strength and character of the founding entrepreneurs, often... Read more
Posted on 24 April 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
10 Principles Define Your Startup As Open Vs Closed
Too many customers have long felt distanced from many successful brands, seeing them as closed and mysterious environments, focused only on profits and killing... Read more
Posted on 22 April 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
6 Keys To Proving A Viable Startup Business Model
How do you convince investors that your business model will really work, before you have a revenue stream that exceeds your expenses? Read more
Posted on 20 April 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
6 Entrepreneur Mindsets That Lead To Real Innovation
Real innovation in the business world is still rare. As I’ve said before, everyone talks about innovation, but the majority of new business plans I see still... Read more
Posted on 19 April 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
7 Ways To Prepare For A Growing Global Opportunity
New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. Read more
Posted on 18 April 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
Are You Trying To Be All Things To All Customers?
Your business can’t be all things to all people, and excel at anything. Every entrepreneur and every business needs a strategy to keep them focused. Read more
Posted on 17 April 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
Business Professionals Can Be The New Entrepreneurs
The era of stable lifetime jobs for business professionals within a single company are gone. Companies are rightsized quickly now as markets change rapidly,... Read more
Posted on 15 April 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
Realistic Strategies For Funding Product Development
Angel investors and venture capitalists are looking for startups with real products and a proven business model, ready to scale. Read more
Posted on 13 April 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
Are You Mentally Tough Enough To Be An Entrepreneur?
You have to be extra tough mentally to be an entrepreneur. While thinking about it, I realized that it’s really not that different from the toughness required... Read more
Posted on 12 April 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
Avoid The Entrepreneur Role If These Quotes Fit You
Some people are not cut out to be entrepreneurs. This is a good thing, or the business world would be chaos, with everyone trying to do their own thing. So... Read more
Posted on 11 April 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER