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8 Keys To Attracting More Talent Than The Competition

Startup Professionals Musings

You need a faster and more flexible on-demand hiring strategy, based on the current gig-economy of remote freelancers, contract personnel, and specialists. Higher worker engagement and satisfaction. You all have to deal today primarily with on-demand customers in an on-demand economy.

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5 Ways To Build Startup Resilience And Avoid Failure

Startup Professionals Musings

Their satisfaction comes from proving nay-sayers wrong. Don’t forget to maintain a healthy balance between business and personal demands, including family, sleep, and time off for enjoyable activities. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 07/19/2020.

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7 Advantages That Local Small Business Owners Enjoy

Startup Professionals Musings

Once you accept equity investor money, or go public with stockholders, you won’t believe the things they demand, and the legal rules you have follow. This can be a key source of personal satisfaction, as well as the ultimate success factor and legacy. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 10/23/2020.

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5 Keys to Ensuring Credibility, Trust, and Customers

Startup Professionals Musings

This distrust for the scripted message has led to a new demand for unfiltered marketing, and the emergence of business credibility heroes, like Elon Musk, with his bold statements about space travel, and sometime villains, such as Mark Zuckerberg defending Facebook privacy practices. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/03/2020.

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5 Priorities For New Business Leader Self-Development

Startup Professionals Musings

Over time, I learned that I could get more personal results, as well as satisfaction, by enlisting the natural strengths of others. Good leaders never complain about what they can’t control, and never demand results from team members which are outside their control. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 02/04/2020.

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Startups Weekly: Upfront Ventures bets on a bus service

TechCrunch LA

The company is actually based out of LA, too, but has completed its initial launch in Minnesota, where there’s greater demand for short-term bus travel. Airbnb, for its part, filed a press release this week confirming its plans to go public in 2020. HappyOrNot nabs $25M for its customer satisfaction terminals .

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5 Challenges No Entrepreneur Anticipates In A Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

What you don’t expect is to feel out of control , or to always be fighting the many demands for your time. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 06/17/2020.