Martin Zwilling

LATEST ARTICLES ( 3466 )

• Keep a Grand Vision but Execute With a Laser Focus

  

  It’s great to dream big, but your startup needs a laser focus in the beginning to get market and investor attention. Google did it with search engines, Apple di... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2012 BUSINESS, CAREER

• Know the Right Resources for Your Startup Stage

  

  Some entrepreneurs start polling venture capitalists for that multi-million dollar investment before they even have a business plan. Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2012 BUSINESS, CAREER

• Great Businesses Evolve Innovation to a Revolution

  

  Great businesses these days start with innovation, and then take it up a few notches to make it a revolution. An example is Google, who turned a new search... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2012 BUSINESS, CAREER

• Test Your Business Model Against These 10 Elements

  

  You can’t succeed in business without an operational model that delivers value to customers at a reasonable price, with an underlying cost that allows you to... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2012 BUSINESS, CAREER

• Successful Startups Often Come With a High Price

  

  Most entrepreneurs expect to face the “normal” challenges of starting a business, which include finding the right opportunity, building and executing a winning... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2012 BUSINESS, CAREER

• Smart Entrepreneurs Plan Multiple Rollout Iterations

  

  The traditional mode of starting a company is to plan a serial process, where you complete only once all the steps, leading to the “big bang” launch of the... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2012 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 10 Tips on the Value of Collaboration in Startups

  

  Any entrepreneur with a vision can postulate a new business, but it takes a collaboration of many people to make it a success. Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2012 BUSINESS, CAREER

• The Best Entrepreneurs Are Undaunted by Failure

  

  If you haven’t had a failure, you aren’t pushing the limits. If you are really an entrepreneur, you are a risk taker and less cautious by nature, so failures... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2012 BUSINESS, CAREER

• An Entrepreneur Has to Learn the Art of Saying No

  

  Entrepreneurs have to know when and how to say ‘no,’ and be good at delivering the message. All startup leaders are besieged with requests for their time,... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2012 BUSINESS, CAREER

• How to Show Your Customers a Little Extra Love

  

  I deal often with early-stage startups, and many of these don’t have any customers yet (but wish they did), so it’s not surprising they still don’t think of... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2012 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 6 Reasons Why Startup Prototypes Attract Investors

  

  It’s a long way from an entrepreneur’s “idea” to a working product with a real market and paying customers. A necessary intermediate step for proof of concept,... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2012 BUSINESS, CAREER

• How to Succeed in Living the Entrepreneur Lifestyle

  

  As we recover from some tough economic times, more and more people seem to be turning to entrepreneurship as an alternative to traditional employment. Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2012 BUSINESS, CAREER

• Startup Investors Bet on the Jockey, Not the Horse

  

  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 05 May 2012 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 6 Tips to Max Your Business Problem Solving Skills

  

  If you can’t solve problems and enjoy it, you won’t make it as an entrepreneur. By definition, an entrepreneur is the first to undertake a given business, and... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2012 BUSINESS, CAREER

• Inventor-Entrepreneur Pairs Are Ideal for a Startup

  

  In my experience, inventors aren’t interested or aren’t very good at building a business, and entrepreneurs aren’t usually good scientists. Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2012 BUSINESS, CAREER

• Startup Founders Need to Build a Dream Team

  

  If you are a young startup founder, how do you find that CEO or other executive for your “dream team” to close on funding and kick start your company? Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2012 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 7 Success Maxims from Savvy Business Leaders

  

  Even though I have seen many business leaders succeed, and many that failed, I still struggle with what really makes the difference. Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2012 BUSINESS, CAREER

• Startups Need the ‘Why’ Before the ‘What’ to Build

  

  All too many startups are founded simply on the basis of a new and exciting technology invented by an industrious technologist. Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2012 BUSINESS, CAREER

• Most Entrepreneurs Need to Be Inspired to Perspire

  

  I’m fully convinced that both inspiration and perspiration are always required in a startup. Yet many people seem to be stuck on one end or other of this... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2012 BUSINESS, CAREER

• Entrepreneurs Need to Have Fun to Be More Innovative

  

  I’m convinced that people who have fun at work are more innovative, as well as happier. I don’t have any big scientific studies to prove this, but in my... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2012 BUSINESS, CAREER