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7 Essential Steps From A Lone Entrepreneur To Success

Startup Professionals Musings

What these people need is more relationships, not more experts, more blogs, or more books. See my article from way back “ Entrepreneurs Learn Best From Business Networking ” on how and where to get started. Nominate someone as your mentor. Studies show that as much as 50-90% of communication is body language.

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6 Ways To Make You An Entrepreneur Before The Product

Startup Professionals Musings

Contributing to industry blogs, or starting your own, is an ideal way to express your positive values, and build a reputation that can save you later if your product stumbles, or you receive some negative challenges. Every future entrepreneur should start by networking. Make your lifestyle a model of the online reputation you want.

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5 Tips For New Entrepreneurs Needing Investor Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

As a mentor to startups and new entrepreneurs, I continue to hear the refrain that business plans are no longer required for a new startup, since investors never read them anyway.

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Twitter Insights From A Guru With 113,000 Rabidly Active Followers

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A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes. If you haven''t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! and the Twitter thing hit a nerve, the articles that I was sharing. Between all the blogging and the Twitter stuff that I do, none of my business comes from that.

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10 Marketing Lessons for Early-Stage Tech Startups

Both Sides of the Table

They certainly struggle to find mentors as there is nothing more frustrating than trying to help a company who is afraid to tell you anything. Market to Your Target Audience – I’ve seen a lot of startups who like to write blog posts on life as an entrepreneur. You’re reading their press releases or blog posts.

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Should Millennial Entrepreneurs Skip College?

InfoChachkie

A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes. I must admit, I furthered this anti-college narrative with a provocative article about college dropout successes. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! You can also check out my hands-on startup advice blog HERE.

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Data Scientist Team Share Lessons Learned From Competition

Tech.Co

Test your skills: Create a mock competition environment and have experts or mentors in your field be the judges. This article is courtesy of the Galvanize blog. They made sure each team member knew his part well, and they timed themselves to be sure they hit the mark.