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8 Keys To Building And Nurturing Trusted Connections

Startup Professionals Musings

Don’t wait for the right people in business to find you – developers, investors, partners, or key customers. These include other business leaders, mentors, visionaries, and influencers. Actively and positively end relationships that are not productive. Building the right relationships requires proactive efforts.

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8 Personal Strategies For Winning With Relationships

Startup Professionals Musings

Don’t wait for the right people in business to find you – developers, investors, partners, or key customers. These include other business leaders, mentors, visionaries, and influencers. Actively and positively end relationships that are not productive. Building the right relationships requires proactive efforts.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: 5. Outsourcing

Frank Addante

. ► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

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5 Strategies For Building Winning People Connections

Startup Professionals Musings

We slowly realized that Microsoft’s value went far beyond his technical contributions, due to his connections with key software developers and relationships with hardware manufacturers who could make the PC revolution universal. For example, I grew up in IBM when Bill Gates was helping us deliver the first IBM PC.

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8 Good CFO Attributes That Every Entrepreneur Needs

Startup Professionals Musings

Every team member, from engineer to CEO, lives or dies based on cash flow, so the more they can tune their activities to revenue and expenses, the more valuable they become. Finding creative ways to fund activities. Be a trustworthy advisor and mentor to others. Creating operational processes and procedures.

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Are You ‘Hands On’ Enough To Succeed In A Startup?

Startup Professionals Musings

Others hire consultants, or outsource much of the real work. If a team member has a plan that is too ambitious and likely to set them up for failure, he or she needs your direct mentoring to dial it back. Encourage transparent interaction and make yourself approachable by actively assisting people in their own domain.

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Michael A. Wolf – Angel Investor and Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

Mike Wolf is a mentor of mine, and a role model for many technology entrepreneurs and investors in the Phoenix, Arizona, area. More recently, he has invested in numerous local startups, while mentoring and advising hundreds of young entrepreneurs. I am active on a number of Boards of organizations that support entrepreneurship.