Martin Zwilling

LATEST ARTICLES ( 3466 )

• 10 Keys To Limiting Your Startup Story To Ten Minutes

  

  The average length of a funding pitch to angel investors is ten minutes. Even if you have booked an hour with a VC, you should plan to talk only for the first... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 5 Tips To Keep Your Startup Productive, Not Just Busy

  If you want to make a great first impression on a startup investor or an advisor like me, don’t try to convince me or show me how busy you are. Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 6 Leadership Requirements For Every Startup Business

  Almost every entrepreneur starts their journey by developing a solution, based on their idea of a new technology or required service. These idea and developer... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 10 Strategies To Make You A Lucky Winner In Business

  These differences are the reason that investors say that they invest in people, rather than ideas. As I was reminded again by the classic book from Dennis... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 9 Strategies To Promote Your Image As A Communicator

  Every business professional and entrepreneur believes they are good communicators, but how do they know? It’s really the perception of the recipients that... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 10 Keys To Being A Thought Leader Across Social Media

  Successful entrepreneurs often start with a “random” idea, but they quickly focus their efforts and follow a “system” to organize their startup and maximize... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 5 Keys to Results in the Current Marketing Revolution

  Most small businesses I advise still rely on traditional advertising models, assuming they can create enough media “noise” to get customers attention and sway... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 10 Keys To Enabling Your Startup For Unicorn Growth

  Investors will tell you that they love to put money into startups that are scalable, and ready to become the next unicorn. But what does that really mean? Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 10 Stumbling Blocks To Innovative Business Thinking

  Successful entrepreneurs are the ones who think the most creatively, not only in their initial product or service, but more importantly all through the stages o... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 7 Winning Business Writing Pointers For Entrepreneurs

  Even in this age of videos and text messages, the quickest way to kill your startup dream with investors, business partners, or even customers, is embarrassingl... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 6 Habits to Become a More Empathetic Business Leader

  In my experience as a business and entrepreneur advisor over many years, I’m convinced that the days of the “command and control” business leader are gone. Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 6 Realities To Evaluate Your Outsourcing Alternatives

  If you have a software development background like mine, I’m sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. The... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 6 Ways To Doom Your Startup Despite A Great Solution

  As an entrepreneur mentor and startup investor, I see with sadness the 50 to 90 percent that fail. If you ask them for a reason, most will insist that they... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 6 Reasons Why More Is Not Better In Your Next Startup

  Many passionate entrepreneurs fight to add more features into their new products and services, assuming that more function will make the solution more... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 10 Keys To Results With Social-Local-Mobile Marketing

  The world of marketing is changing faster than technology these days. Winning entrepreneurs have long since supplemented conventional print and video “push”... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 6 Practices Guaranteed To Raise Workforce Engagement

  Whether you are an entrepreneur managing a startup, or a corporate executive with thousands of employees, it’s hard to ignore the evidence of big value from... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 5 Common Startup Setbacks And How To Rebound Stronger

  Most entrepreneurs are so convinced that they are the disruptive element, they fail to anticipate that unknown facts or events can and will occur to disrupt... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 6 Ways Gossiping Leads To A Toxic Workplace Culture

  

  As an entrepreneur, you should treat gossip among the members of your team as a reduction in productivity at best, and at worst, an indication of unhappy,... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 5 Keys To The Startup Mindset Required For Breakthrus

  As an entrepreneur advisor, I am surprised at how often I hear the same or very similar proposals of an incremental innovation to an existing process, versus a... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 5 Steps To Get Ahead With The Entrepreneur Lifestyle

  

  According to Gallup surveys, job satisfaction for employees is at an all-time low. Only 13 percent of workers are fully engaged in their job. The sad part is... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER