Martin Zwilling

LATEST ARTICLES ( 3466 )

• 7 Ways To Hire Your Way To Failure In A New Venture

  

  Business success is all about having the best team, yet the average entrepreneur has little prior experience with hiring people and building top-notch teams. Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 5 Steps To Get You From Your First Idea To A Business

  

  One thing I have learned the hard way in business is that implementing new ideas is usually much more difficult than conceiving the idea in the first place. Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 7 Ways To Use An Advisory Board To Accelerate Success

  In my role as an angel investor to startups, I’m struck by the broad variety of advisor strategies I see in investor presentations and business plans that... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 7 Startup Risks That Come With Other People’s Money

  

  One of the myths I often hear as an advisor to many entrepreneurs is that their lifestyle would somehow be better if they could more easily find other people’s... Read more

  Posted on 29 February 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 7 Ways For Businesses To Work Less And Enjoy It More

  Successful businesses are all about getting results, not just working hard. As a new business advisor, I hear facts all the time about how hard an entrepreneur... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 7 Leadership Strategies To Rev-Up Your Team Vitality

  

  Most startup ideas begin in the mind of an individual, but an idea is not a business. It takes a team, with effective leadership, to build a business. Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 6 Benefits of Outsourcing and Freelancing In Startups

  One of the most stressful and unanticipated challenges that comes with starting a new business is hiring and managing employees. Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 7 New Dimensions Of Market Value In This Digital Age

  As a startup advisor, I see too many entrepreneurs get distracted by technology or their favorite cause, and then wonder why they can’t find an investor, attrac... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 8 Guiding Principles To An Enviable Employee Culture

  With today’s interactive social media and the real-time Internet, both customers and employees see inside your company easily, so you can’t hide your real... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 6 Ways To Make You An Entrepreneur Before The Product

  

  Many of the entrepreneurs I advise or invest with spend considerable time on the Internet, keeping up with technology, customers, and competitors, but very few... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 5 Priorities For New Business Leader Self-Development

  In my business of mentoring new entrepreneurs and advising small company owners, I recognize that most don’t start as experienced leaders, and most don’t realiz... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 6 Challenges In Penetrating The New World Of Services

  Selling services has always been about relationships, but the challenges of building relationships with services clients have exploded. Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 7 Ways Growing Companies Drift From Startup Thinking

  Every new venture that survives the first five years starts to drift away from their entrepreneurial thinking, and assumes they have achieved the path to... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 10 Timeless First Principles Of A Prosperous Business

  In this world of constant change, new technologies, and a thousand cultures, it’s evident and somehow comforting to me that the basic rules for business... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 5 Strategies For Startup Partnering To Win Long Term

  Business partnerships have traditionally been agreements to drive more transactions than either company could do alone. The new paradigm, driven by disruptive... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 6 Personal Assessment Tools To Optimize Career Growth

  Too many people, young and older, let their career and their lifestyle happen to them, rather than proactively making things happen based on their personal... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 7 Business Leadership Keys To A Thriving New Venture

  One of the realities of being an entrepreneur is that you have to keep learning and changing to survive. Everyone on the startup team knows there is no buffer,... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 6 Team Members Who Will Make Your New Venture Robust

  In my years of advising startups and occasional investing, I’ve seen many great ideas start and fail, but the right team always seems to make good things happen... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 10 Manageable Risks That An Entrepreneur Should Take

  There is an old saying that good lawyers run away from risk, while good businessmen run towards risk. Entrepreneurs see “no risk” as meaning “no reward.” In... Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 5 Ways To Sample The Joy Of An Entrepreneur Lifestyle

  Even though I’m a big proponent of becoming an entrepreneur, it is definitely not for everyone. Unfortunately the success and lavish lifestyle of some current... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER