Sat.Apr 02, 2016

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5 Elements Of Success Every Startup Should Celebrate

Startup Professionals Musings

Many experts are certain that successful entrepreneurs are the ones with the most inspiration (passion and dream), while others will assert that it’s about more perspiration (working harder). In my experience, both are always required in heavy doses. There are no “can’t fail” shortcuts or “get rich quick” scenarios. That’s why all those so-called million dollar ideas I hear about as an investor don’t get me excited, and entrepreneurs find that working twenty hours a day often generates nothing m

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Grading Entrepreneurs: Here’s my checklist…

Jason Nazar

The following checklist is my comprehensive criteria for how to grade entrepreneurs. I’ve developed it over the years by running Docstoc and helping thousands of folks start and grow their businesses. As I was once told in grammar school, the following exercise will test “your ability to follow directions.” I, like many entrepreneurs, never followed directions that well.

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My Favorite Questions: they might change your life…

Jason Nazar

“Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” – Voltaire. “We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.” – Carl Sagan. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand. As I turn 35 and think of my life so far and what’s to come, I realize how much I’m shaped by the questions I ask.

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