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

Startup Professionals Musings

Then, he'll need to patent it and create a plan to show opportunity, competition, and financial projections. In addition, creating a business requires leading and interacting with other people, including partners, investors, and customers. Build your own personal brand image through blogging, industry forums, and networking.

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

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Partly out of the fact that in 1 week I depart for England to speak at LeWeb, attend our DataSift board meeting and generally make myself available to the DataSift team to meet their customers, partners and employees. So what are Rob’s secret hacks that he didn’t spill in his blog post? . Email updates frequently.

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Improving Sales: The Excuse Departement is Closed

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So I did want any rational person who wants to improve does – I hired a coach. Whenever I heard why we didn’t feel a sales process at an important customer was going well (or if we lost) I would get involved myself. They are as good at selling you as they are at selling your product to customers.

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Every Small Business Should Celebrate the Positives

Startup Professionals Musings

Sponsored by VISA Business Running a small business as an entrepreneur is a never-ending challenge of new products, customers, competitors, and an unpredictable economy. Beat the competition. Competition drives innovation, and innovation drives competition. The cycle never stops. Then you have to deal with the mistakes.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

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I believe that it is part of the DNA of an entrepreneur – being so competitive that you’re practically sick when you lose. They’re competitive. It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits. Ask your customer why you lost. Quite the opposite.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

Both Sides of the Table

I believe that it is part of the DNA of an entrepreneur – being so competitive that you’re practically sick when you lose. They’re competitive. It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits. Ask your customer why you lost. Quite the opposite.

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Do VC Platforms Make Sense?

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And there is often competition over marketing activities, fund raising ownership and the like. Early-stage and first-time entrepreneurs often value advice in the full marketing mix including blogging, content marketing, positioning, branding and customer acquisition that a senior marketer has done for years. Partner Leverage.