Martin Zwilling

LATEST ARTICLES ( 3466 )

• 5 Principles For Deriving Winning Business Insights

  

  I often hear the popular notion that successful entrepreneurs are built from a single heroic insight or a single innovation. This is just plain wrong. Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 8 Questions Before You Join Or Invest In A Startup

  

  Every startup founder loves to prompt for questions from investors and potential key team members about their vision, and the huge opportunity that can be had... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 10 Steps To Finding The Right Startup Co-Founder

  

  A common challenge faced by every entrepreneur is that they don’t have the bandwidth, interest or skills to do everything that is required to build their... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 5 Ways To Boost Productivity And Minimize Negativity

  

  Throughout my career in small companies and large, I’ve always been appalled by the number of people who have a negative attitude or complain all of the time. Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 5 Tips For Startups To Win With Social Media

  

  Social media is so pervasive in today’s world that every entrepreneur believes instinctively that they know how to use it for their startup. Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 7 Entrepreneur Types Drive Change On A Global Scale

  

  By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services,... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 10 Paths Which Often Lead To Early Business Failure

  

  Every entrepreneur I know has their favorite excuse for a previous failure – an investor backed out, the economy took a downturn, or a supplier delivered bad... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER

• Every Entrepreneur Dreams Of A Startup Without Risk

  

  Outside of dreams, there is no real business opportunity without risk. Serious entrepreneurs know that, but too many “wannabes” still fall for that elusive... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER

• How Valuable Are Stock Options Offered By A Startup?

  

  Wouldn’t you like to be one of the lucky people who joined Google and Facebook when these were startups, and now be a multi-millionaire? Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER

• No Expert Has A Startup Checklist To Ensure Success

  

  A common request I get while mentoring entrepreneurs is for a copy of the startup checklist they need to follow, in order to build a successful new business. I... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER

• Is Your Use Of Social Media For Marketing Working?

  

  Isn’t it frustrating to think you finally understand something in business, like marketing with social media, only to realize that the landscape changed while... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER

• What Can Big Data Ever Tell Us About Human Behavior?

  

  We are now solidly in the era of big data, where computers are capturing and processing the details of everything we do with all our interconnected devices in... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER

• Is Your Advisor a Critic Posing as a Mentor?

  

  Every startup needs a couple of advisors with deep experience and connections in your business domain or financial skills to complement your technical focus. Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER

• Close Relationships At Work Bring Value And Risks

  

  We all have to communicate and collaborate with other people at work, but most of us start out instinctively trying to maintain an emotional distance from other... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER

• Protect Your Business Reputation Online Or Lose It

  

  Every startup fears that one angry and unfair customer who can jeopardize the business by a negative post on Ripoff Report, Yelp, or one of the hundreds of othe... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER

• Will Your Business Innovation Disrupt The Market?

  

  Every entrepreneur with a new technology tells me that his innovation will be industry-disrupting, meaning that it will render the existing technology... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 8 Signs Of Change That Good Entrepreneurs See First

  

  When the economy tanks as it did in the last recession, that’s a strong signal that things have to change, and it’s hard to miss. Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 7 Critical Questions Before You Become an Entrepreneur

  

  As a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, the most common question I get is, “I want to be an entrepreneur -- how do I start?” The obvious answer is that you need... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 10 Indications That Your Startup Role Is Killing You

  

  If an entrepreneur doesn’t find themselves in over their head at least 20% of the time, they are probably not pushing the limits, not taking enough risk, and... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER

• Don’t Let Too Many Features Ruin Your Next Product

  

  “Scope creep” (or feature creep) is an insidious disease that kills more new business solutions than any other, especially high-tech ones, and yet most... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER