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8 Mindset Principles That Lead To Success In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

As a long-time business advisor and mentor to entrepreneurs, I’ve always been impressed with the few who seem to always come out ahead, no matter what the challenge. It seems to be more a function of mindset and principles, more than education or natural ability. Deliver value to your customer, to accrue value in you.

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7 Concepts To Keep In Mind When Running Any Business

Startup Professionals Musings

When I started mentoring entrepreneurs and startups a few years ago, I anticipated that I would get mostly tough technical questions, but instead I more often hear things like “Where do I start?” Marketing and advertising are business realties. Planning should keep you focused on what’s important, and prepare you for what lies ahead.

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5 Tips For Attracting Female Customers

Tech.Co

Connecting with your customer via social media, forums or advertising is the norm these days, but there’s nothing as strong as building a community around your brand. All founders agreed that by adding female mentors or board members to the mix helped them gain a stronger perspective of their potential customers to attract more business. “As

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

socalTECH

The most attractive thing about it was the educational value. So, we were pretty excited to educate ourselves at TechStars. The program itself is incredibly daunting initially, but it was really valuable for us, especially as an educational experience. We have some great mentors now.

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7 Facts Of Business Life People Learn From Experience

Startup Professionals Musings

When I started mentoring entrepreneurs and startups a few years ago, I anticipated that I would get mostly tough technical questions, but instead I more often hear things like “Where do I start?” Marketing and advertising are business realties. Planning should keep you focused on what’s important, and prepare you for what lies ahead.

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

Both Sides of the Table

From there most websites unfortunately don’t know what to really do with it so it basically just becomes a way to log you in and potentially allow advertisers to serve up more targeted (and therefore higher CPM) ads. Seth’s interest in helping others grew out of his lack of having a mentor. For Meebo 1.3%

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7 Facts of Business Life For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

When I started mentoring entrepreneurs and startups a few years ago, I anticipated that I would get mostly tough technical questions, but instead I more often hear things like “Where do I start?” Marketing and advertising are business realties. Planning should keep you focused on what’s important, and prepare you for what lies ahead.