Martin Zwilling

LATEST ARTICLES ( 3466 )

• 5 Ways To Conserve Investor Cash And Ensure Survival

  

  Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Investors check your burn rate to assess your efficiency, and project your remaining runway before you... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 7 Due Diligence Checks On Your Idea To Save Some Pain

  

  In my experience, consummate entrepreneurs tend come up with more startup ideas than they can ever implement, and some of the ideas may not even make business... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 7 Characteristics Of Startup Founders Who Enjoy Life

  

  As an angel investor and a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, I’m always disappointed to see founders who seem stressed out most of the time, and more annoyed... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 6 Keys To Translating Technology Into Business Value

  

  Young entrepreneurs often are so excited by new technology or their latest invention that they forget to translate it into a value proposition that their... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 6 Keys To Sizing Your Market For A New Business Plan

  

  Many entrepreneurs are so enamored with their product vision that they believe their own hype, and are convinced that the market for their solution is so huge... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 7 Keys To Being Viewed As Indispensable By Your Team

  

  In my experience at all levels within large organizations as well as small ones, the team members valued the most, and usually promoted first, are the ones... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 8 Ways To Stay Competitive In Today’s Technical World

  

  Technology is so key to every business these days that experienced business-smart but non-tech entrepreneurs are feeling deeper and deeper in the hole. Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 5 Keys To Negotiating Your Fair Share Of Any Startup

  

  I always tell entrepreneurs that two heads are better than one, so the first task in many startups is finding a co-founder or two. You need to find the skills o... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 5 Keys To Reducing Startup Risk By Building On Trends

  

  It may not be as sexy, but starting a new business which builds on an existing technology or business model is usually less risky than introducing that... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 10 Strategies For Success Long-Term As Well As Today

  

  Every one of you has had to deal with the conflicting requirements of optimizing your business in the short term versus the long term. Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 7 Ways Every Entrepreneur Should Evaluate A New Idea

  

  As an advisor to entrepreneurs, one of the most common requests I get is for an evaluation of a next startup idea. I try to explain that even the most innovativ... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 7 Success Factors When Your People Are The Solution

  

  The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a paten... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 5 Ways To Build Startup Resilience And Avoid Failure

  

  One of the characteristics that every good investor looks for in an aspiring entrepreneur is resilience, or the ability to learn from and bounce back after a... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 7 Ways Getting In Bed With The Enemy Can Be Win-Win

  

  Entrepreneurs seem to have blinders on when looking at competitors. Generally they are so focused on killing competitors that they fail to see the positive... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 7 Personal Strategies That Define Great Entrepreneurs

  

  As an angel investor in startups, I’m a believer that smart investors invest more in you as the entrepreneur than the next billion dollar solution you are... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 5 Due Diligence Tips Before You Invest In A Startup

  

  After you have heard a few startup success stories, like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft, you may be tempted to invest some money yourself, maybe by pooling you... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 7 Tips To Getting A Bank Interested In Your Startup

  

  Many entrepreneurs are convinced that banks are not worth the effort for startups, especially early-stage ones that still don’t have a revenue stream, or... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 7 Costs To Consider Before Taking Your Startup Public

  Despite the fact that the number of IPOs (Initial Public Offerings) for startups have continued to stay low, I still hear it touted often as the preferred exit... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 10 Steps To A New Venture That Can Change The World

  

  As a startup advisor in this age of the entrepreneur, I see many more startups, but innovation is still hard to find. The most common proposals I hear are for... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 6 Today Strategies For Creating The Next Killer Brand

  

  Brand loyalty is still critical for your business growth, but is becoming tougher and tougher to achieve and hold. According to studies, the alternative of... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER