Martin Zwilling

LATEST ARTICLES ( 3466 )

• 5 Keys To New Venture Financial Projections That Work

  

  As an angel investor and business advisor on new ventures, I expect to see five-year financial projections from every entrepreneur. Yet I get more pushback on... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2017 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 7 Risks To Avoid In Your Business People Management

  

  Even after many years mentoring entrepreneurs and advising businesses, I continue to be surprised by the primary focus on products and processes, and the often... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2017 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 9 Beautiful Questions Will Validate Your Innovation

  

  The entrepreneurs I see are always talking about “disruptive innovation” ideas, but the plans I read are more often linear extensions of a current hot... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2017 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 7 Plan Elements That Separate Businesses From Hobbies

  

  Unless you are a serial entrepreneur with a string of successes behind you, you need a business plan to convince investors that you can build a business out of... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2017 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 6 Trends Generate Huge Data And Startup Opportunities

  

  A tidal wave of valuable data is surging from the Internet and connected devices today, and the volume is growing exponentially each year. Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2017 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 10 Top Attributes Elevate Design Thinking Leaders

  

  As a business advisor, I strongly believe that continuous innovation and design thinking are the keys to long-term viability and success. Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2017 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 10 Strategies For Leaders To Drive Disruptive Change

  

  How is it that only a few business leaders and entrepreneurs seem to drive exceptional results and disruptive innovation in this rapidly changing market... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2017 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 4 Key Questions To Identify Your Ideal Startup Site

  

  Even in this age of globalization and virtualization, the geographic area where you choose to live and work can still make or break your startup business. Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2017 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 10 Top Revenue Models Drive Viable Businesses Today

  

  I was mentoring some graduate students at a local university recently, and I sensed again that profit seems to be a dirty word these days to many aspiring... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2017 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 4 Steps To Prepare Your Business For A Required Pivot

  

  You will be pivoting your business in your lifetime, whether you are a new startup, or a mature company like Motorola or IBM. You can count on it and plan for... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2017 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 7 Rules For Innovations That Produce Dominant Players

  

  Innovation doesn’t always make you a winner in business. In my role as an angel investor in startups, almost every pitch I see highlights some real innovation i... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2017 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 6 Key Tenets Of A Winning Marketing Story In Business

  

  In my role as a mentor to entrepreneurs and an angel investor, I find that too many are stuck in this myth that a good pitch, and good marketing content,... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2017 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 10 Strategies To Kick Up How You Will Be Remembered

  

  Every entrepreneur and business leader waits too long before really working on the legacy that he wants to leave to society and his family. Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2017 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 7 Ways To Survive The Retail Customer Shift To Online

  

  In my role as advisor to small businesses, I often hear first-hand the challenges and failures of retail store owners who fear the advantages of online and... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2017 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 5 Keys To Satisfaction From Solving Market Challenges

  

  Perhaps sparked by the now forgotten recession, I’m seeing a new era of the entrepreneur, with startups springing up all around. Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2017 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 10 Keys To Making Mentoring A Win-Win Relationship

  

  Every entrepreneur can learn from a mentor, no matter how confident or successful they have been to date. Most people don’t know that billionaire Mark... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2017 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 10 Great Ways To Crush Creativity In Your Business

  

  Success in any business these days requires a constant flow of new and innovative solutions, to keep up with changes in the market, competition, and to attract... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2017 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 10 Principles For New Ventures To Weather The Storm

  

  A perfect storm is an expression that describes an event where a rare combination of circumstances aggravates an environment drastically. Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2017 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 6 Steps Required From A New Venture Dream To Reality

  

  It seems like everyone wants to be an entrepreneur and get rich these days. As a business mentor, I sometimes feel besieged by people begging for my view and... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2017 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 8 Ways That Creating A New Business Helps Your Career

  

  If you are one of the many professionals still trapped between jobs by circumstances outside your control, or are about to dump the loser job you have now, you... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2017 BUSINESS, CAREER