Martin Zwilling

LATEST ARTICLES ( 3466 )

• 5 Strategies Recommended For Successful Bootstrapping

  

  As an advisor to entrepreneurs, I often hear the desire to run their own company, to avoid having someone else telling them how to run the business. Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 5 Startup Financial Questions Every Investor Will Ask

  If you think that financial modeling for a new business is arcane magic, limited in value to financial wizards and professional investors, then you have been... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 8 New Ways To Focus On Customers For Trust And Profit

  As an advisor to entrepreneurs, I find that I often have to remind them that the world of customers has changed since they started their last business. Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 8 Key Business Elements Set Startup Investor Interest

  One of the big questions that every entrepreneur struggles with is how much funding they should request from investors in the first round. Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 5 Questions To Qualify Advisors For Your New Venture

  Every startup needs a couple of advisors with deep experience and connections in your business domain or financial skills to complement your technical focus. Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 10 Ways For Entrepreneurs To Assure Happiness In 2020

  Welcome to another challenging new year ahead! You’ve probably already made your resolutions for 2020, but if not, I suggest a renewed commitment to finding... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 5 Ways To Engage The Right People In Your New Venture

  In my work with new and aspiring entrepreneurs, I find that most struggle with putting together a written business plan, often pointing out that someone they... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2019 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 5 Keys To Maximizing Your Impact In People Mentoring

  If you are like most entrepreneurs I know, there just aren’t enough hours in a day to get all your own work done, as well as run the many one-hour meetings... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2019 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 8 Friends Who Mean Well But Never Start New Ventures

  Every entrepreneur I know is dismayed by the number of friends who approach them with a line such as “I have an even better idea that will change the world,... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2019 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 6 Building Blocks Make Amazon A Global Market Leader

  

  Every new business dreams of growing from a startup to a global market leader in a few years, like Amazon.com, but that goal is elusive. Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2019 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 6 Tips On How To Really Prepare For Your New Venture

  Despite the rush in every academic institution to offer more courses on entrepreneurship, I still haven’t found it to be something you can learn in school. Read more

  Posted on 25 December 2019 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 7 Ways To Jeopardize Key Startup People Relationships

  Relationships are the key to survival and success for entrepreneurs, and first impressions usually turn into lasting impressions. Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2019 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 8 Steps To Making Good Decisions In Life And Business

  Despite many years of advising aspiring entrepreneurs and people in business, I continue to be surprised by the number of people who wait for decisions to be... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2019 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 8 Clues That You Need More Focus On Human Leadership

  Most entrepreneurs assume that success is dependent on their product expertise, coupled with some knowledge of how to run a business. Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2019 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 10 Positive Signs For Starting Your Own Business Now

  

  With the current strong economy I’m seeing a continued resurgence of entrepreneurial spirit, and more startup activity than ever before. Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2019 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 5 Pivotal Decisions That Define A Great Entrepreneur

  

  Most aspiring entrepreneurs are convinced that the strength of their initial idea somehow defines them as a leader, as well as the success potential of their... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2019 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 5 Modern Ways To Make Your Product Uniquely Memorable

  

  Every entrepreneur believes that their product or service is memorable, and that every customer will quickly see the advantage over competitors. Yet true produc... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2019 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 8 Strategy Lessons For Establishing A New Business

  Winning customers as an entrepreneur in a startup has many parallels to a young army trying to penetrate some formidable new and unfamiliar territory. Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2019 BUSINESS, CAREER

• How To Highlight A Sustainable Competitive Advantage

  Don’t bash the competition. Every investor knows how vulnerable a new startup is to competitors, so investors always ask about your sustainable competitive... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2019 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 10 Ways Owners Often Jeopardize Their Business Growth

  When you are starting a new business, every resource is precious, including time, funding, and people. Yet we can all look back, after the fact, and realize tha... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2019 BUSINESS, CAREER