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7 Steps To Greater Satisfaction As A New Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

Unfortunately, from my own experience, it’s not that simple, and not doing some preparation first can easily result in stress, lack of satisfaction, and a hard road to success. I’m certainly not saying that all of these are required, but they are certainly all worth some consideration: Get some business education, as well as technical.

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7 Reasons Why Every Business Leader Needs A Mentor

Startup Professionals Musings

After working many years in business, both in large companies as well as startups, I’ve realized that you can learn more from peers and mentors than from any formal education program. Keep your discussions centered on actual business and market challenges, in lieu of speculation on possible future problems.

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8 Unpublicized Strategies From Serious Entrepreneurs

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At some stage of your education, you realize that you can learn faster, and get more satisfaction, in the real world than in a academic environment. Making the impossible happen brings their greatest satisfaction. There will be time for friends later. Academic degrees can sometimes slow you down.

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6 Suggestions For How To Begin Your Startup Lifestyle

Startup Professionals Musings

We all come from the era where our society and education prepared us for the labor market, meaning working for someone else as an information professional, factory worker, or retail associate. The wealth of online education offerings is a great start, but is not enough. It takes more than passion and a course on business basics.

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6 Ideas To Recover From Business Resource Challenges

Startup Professionals Musings

In reality, resource constraints should be seen by startups a competitive advantage, by forcing them to develop new markets, and to think differently and act differently than existing players. Constraints are the best motivators for finding new approaches to solving a problem, building a product, or crafting an effective marketing campaign.

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8 Entrepreneurship Principles For Anticipating Change

Startup Professionals Musings

It requires an attitude of self-education, versus an assumption that someone else will provide the education. With that learning, you are able to more effectively share and market your solution to customers and business partners. For entrepreneurs, change is the norm, so you have to relish it before you can make it happen.

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How Baby Boomers Fit In The Realm Of Entrepreneurship

Startup Professionals Musings

They couldn’t possibly understand the new social media culture, new technologies, or have the determination to beat their younger counterparts in the market. Pew says the Boomer demographic is the largest mainstream pool of experienced talent in the market today, and will be for the foreseeable future.