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 Strides For Balanced Business Thinking And Delivery
Based on my own experience in business, the best results come from a balance of vision and creativity, combined with a clear focus on logical problem solving an... Read more
Posted on 27 October 2021 BUSINESS, CAREER -
The Demographics Of New Venture Founders Are Changing
Contrary to what you might guess, the highest rate of small business and entrepreneurial growth over the last few years is not Gen-Y upstarts, but Boomers over... Read more
Posted on 25 October 2021 BUSINESS, CAREER -
8 Portfolio Assets Are Key To Your Startup Valuation
A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. When someone says... Read more
Posted on 24 October 2021 BUSINESS, CAREER -
5 Rules Of Relevancy That Set Your New Venture Apart
Some investors seem to focus wholly on the strengths of the management team, or a sustainable competitive advantage, and in reality these are the core attribute... Read more
Posted on 23 October 2021 BUSINESS, CAREER -
7 Keys To Making Many Millions In A Business You Love
Many aspiring entrepreneurs are looking to the Internet as an opportunity to get rich quick, instead of a place where you can start a business you love, for ver... Read more
Posted on 22 October 2021 BUSINESS, CAREER -
8 Keys To Innovation And Responding To Market Change
As I “grew up” in business in big companies, including IBM, I always wondered why the real innovations seemed to come from startups, while we had more... Read more
Posted on 20 October 2021 BUSINESS, CAREER -
How To Incent Your Team To Find More Innovative Ideas
Most entrepreneurs I know are individually very innovative, but a successful startup can’t be a one-man show (for long). That means they need to build an... Read more
Posted on 18 October 2021 BUSINESS, CAREER -
11 Keys To Being The Best In Your Chosen Profession
At some point in their life, hopefully everyone strives to be the best in their chosen profession. Most people think that being the best requires more... Read more
Posted on 17 October 2021 BUSINESS, CAREER -
7 Ways For Do-It-Yourself Entrepreneurs To Get Ahead
In the last few years, I’ve heard more and more about a new type of small business, called a “micro-business” (or micro-enterprise). Read more
Posted on 16 October 2021 BUSINESS, CAREER -
8 Keys To The Winning Mix Of Full-Time and Gig Talent
With the pace of change ever escalating, entrepreneurs today can’t afford to acquire talent through traditional hiring alone, and need to revise the perception... Read more
Posted on 15 October 2021 BUSINESS, CAREER -
7 Short-Term Business Mistakes Can Limit Your Impact
As a long-time business consultant and investor, especially to entrepreneurs, I recognize your sparkle of vision, to build the ultimate world-changing product. Read more
Posted on 13 October 2021 BUSINESS, CAREER -
7 Keys To Transforming A Dream Into Business Reality
Successful entrepreneurs are usually hard-driving, and highly focused on some specific goals, like being the dominant player in a given domain, or the low-price... Read more
Posted on 11 October 2021 BUSINESS, CAREER -
6 Keys To Aiming Your Product To Mainstream Customers
Every technical entrepreneur is an early adopter of technology, so naturally they build things with people like themselves in mind. Read more
Posted on 10 October 2021 BUSINESS, CAREER -
7 Tips To Raise Your Entrepreneur Instincts In School
A popular myth these days is that finishing college only dilutes your entrepreneurial instincts, and the best of the best, including Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and... Read more
Posted on 09 October 2021 BUSINESS, CAREER -
7 Principles for Keeping Work Discussions Productive
All of us have been on the receiving end of a difficult conversation at work, and many have had to deliver a hard message to others. Read more
Posted on 08 October 2021 BUSINESS, CAREER -
6 Ways To Strengthen Your Base As A Business Leader
Most of you business leaders focus first on providing guidance to your team, but neglect self-leadership as an equally important dimension. Read more
Posted on 06 October 2021 BUSINESS, CAREER -
Why More Sales And Less Competition Is Not Sufficient
Does your business have a visible positive strategy, or do your customers and employees still see your primary focus as closing more sales and killing... Read more
Posted on 04 October 2021 BUSINESS, CAREER -
6 Aspects Of Your Story That Will Make You Memorable
The biggest challenge for every entrepreneur and every startup today is to get noticed and remembered in today’s information overload. Read more
Posted on 03 October 2021 BUSINESS, CAREER -
7 Bases For Taking Control Of Your Time And Your Life
One of the most important skills for every entrepreneur is timely and effective decision making. In a startup, any decision is better than no decision. Read more
Posted on 02 October 2021 BUSINESS, CAREER -
6 Sweet Spots That Have Sustained Many Great Startups
In my experience mentoring new entrepreneurs and aspiring business leaders, I see far too many who seem to be driven by all the wrong reasons. Read more
Posted on 01 October 2021 BUSINESS, CAREER