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5 Unfair Advantages To Help You Succeed In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the things I’ve learned over my years as a business mentor and investor is that life isn’t fair when it comes to succeeding in business. Here are the key elements of the strengths framework they have developed, with my own insights and experience added for your consideration: Money: the capital you have, or can easily raise.

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8 Marketing Multipliers To Boost Your Business Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

The concept of “ force multipliers ” originally was developed in military science, but certainly applies equally well to business. Participate in industry conferences and expositions. Finally, key national conferences will show you improvements you need to make in areas that can create multipliers without breaking your business.

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6 Keys To Transforming Yourself Into A Startup Leader

Startup Professionals Musings

Intentionally step outside your comfort zone often enough until the fear and discomfort goes away, and you develop a new mindset of enjoying the act of attracting others to follow your lead in new directions. Take the initiative to meet new leaders in your domain and related ones, at business conferences and networking events.

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Huddlewoo Wants To Connect You To Mentors You Admire Through Online Video

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Huddlewoo a live video platform set to launch early 2013 to give people the ability to access extraordinary people for one-on-one conversations and mentoring. In November 2011 I was honored at the White House as an Empact100 recipient and participated in the FEE Summit conference (Now Empact Summit). What do you do and Why?

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7 Steps To Highly Productive Business Relationships

Startup Professionals Musings

In my experience as a mentor and advisor, I find that many of you expect these relationships will just happen , without any overt effort on your part. Actively seek out and attend key outside business conferences in order to meet and get to know people who can help you, and you can help in return.

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7 Keys To Being An Exceptional Business Leader Today

Startup Professionals Musings

Allocate time for active participation in relevant outside industry conferences, and public panels or TED talks that look ahead. I can attest that he was always seeking relationships with other more mature executives, and even today maintains a mentoring relationship with Warren Buffett. Build relationships with known business leaders.

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5 Ways To Make Innovation A Priority In Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet I believe it is possible, and even more fun, to challenge your thinking and practices, to develop that innovative mindset that can keep you on the forefront of business. One way to do this is to nurture mentoring relationships with experts in other disciplines, as Bill Gates did with Warren Buffet.