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5 Ways To Expand Your Thinking For Your Next Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Sometimes the hesitation I see is not just the qualms of starting and growing a business, but an actual inability to think big, chase dreams, or build a support community around you. Good brainstorming requires you to assemble a half-dozen of the right people who are not afraid to speak up and participate. No idea should go unspoken.

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6 Work Activities Are Required For Business Success

Startup Professionals Musings

Trying to do everything is a sure way to maximize stress, lower job satisfaction, and minimize productivity. I will outline here his six required activities of every successful business to get you started down the right path for you: Wonder: identify the value and need for change. I recommend that you start online to find data sources.

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5 Keys To Breaking Through Success Barriers At Work

Startup Professionals Musings

After many years working in business and investing in startups, I’m convinced that the primary reason for new business and career failures is NOT a lack of skill or money, but people giving up too quickly on their dreams and goals. He went on to start many successful companies, including General Electric.

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7 Steps To Creating An Effective Personal Brand Today

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s been happening for some time, but business changes, accelerated by the recent pandemic, have highlighted the need for all of us to review our positions, image, and satisfaction at work. Ramp up face-to-face time with key contacts. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 11/19/2022. Do I need new skills?”

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7 Ways To Solidify The Confidence You Need To Succeed

Startup Professionals Musings

As an angel investor in startups, I always look for this self-confidence, no matter how innovative the solution. I often hear entrepreneurs talk about wanting to get rich quickly, when I know that money is not usually the key to satisfaction or happiness. You must always stick up for yourself, just like you would for your best friend.

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6 Due Diligence Goals When Vetting Business Partners

Startup Professionals Musings

Business partners can be co-founders in a startup, multiple owners of an existing business, or a joint venture. In every case, a partner can be an asset, bringing new skills and perspectives to the business; or a burden, making every decision more difficult, and taxing your lifestyle satisfaction.

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9 Principles for Getting Along With Everyone At Work

Startup Professionals Musings

Start by giving yourself a dose of self-compassion for what you also are going through before you turn your attention to a colleague. You may get the immediate validation you are seeking, but you may also garner a reputation for being unprofessional, or end up labeled as the difficult one. Give yourself space before reacting.

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