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7 Ways To Highlight Your Personal Value To Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet in my experience on both sides of this equation, I find that many aspiring entrepreneurs focus only on the best idea , assuming that it will attract the right investors. Investors love entrepreneurs who come across as constantly on the lookout for new ideas, and able to grasp the larger implications for market change.

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7 Tips To Test Your Idea As A Part-Time Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

Many experts will tell you that you can’t succeed as a part-time entrepreneur, as any good startup will require a 100 percent commitment of your time and energy. Thus I often recommend that entrepreneurs keep their day job until the startup is producing revenue. But the entrepreneur lifestyle is still more fun, even part-time.

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7 Ways To Prepare For A New Venture As A Side Hustle

Startup Professionals Musings

Many experts will tell you that you can’t succeed as a part-time entrepreneur, as any good startup will require a 100 percent commitment of your time and energy. Thus I often recommend that entrepreneurs keep their day job until the startup is producing revenue. But the entrepreneur lifestyle is still more fun, even part-time.

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5 Steps To An Innovative And Winning New Venture Plan

Startup Professionals Musings

You need a good cook, good marketing, and first-class service. Develop metrics with which to measure yourself and use these to incrementally expand and improve your offering as fast as the market and capital will allow. If you can’t identify customer interest, it doesn’t matter how good your product is. Don’t stand still.

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7 Keys To A New Startup While Still In A Paying Job

Startup Professionals Musings

Many experts will tell you that you can’t succeed as a part-time entrepreneur, as any good startup will require a 100 percent commitment of your time and energy. Thus I often recommend that entrepreneurs keep their day job until the startup is producing revenue. But the entrepreneur lifestyle is still more fun, even part-time.

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5 Ways Entrepreneurs Are Chefs Creating New Recipes

Startup Professionals Musings

You need a good cook, good marketing, and first-class service. Develop metrics with which to measure yourself and use these to incrementally expand and improve your offering as fast as the market and capital will allow. If you can’t identify customer interest, it doesn’t matter how good your product is. Don’t stand still.

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Performance marketing agency MuteSix bets on content and data to boost DTC e-commerce

TechCrunch LA

“They demonstrate best-in-class expertise with Facebook and Google paid ad platforms. In today’s highly competitive ad environment, both content and data are kings. DTC entrepreneurs are more focused on immediate impact, because if they’re not selling product, there’s no large brand propping them up.

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