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7 Private Small Business Grants to Apply For in June 2024

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Government Small Business Grants to Apply For in June 2024 Small business grants can help you unleash your small business’s potential. The grant was designed to support creative ventures, and alongside receiving a cash injection of $5,000, winners will gain access to an exclusive virtual 12-week Boost Camp coaching program.

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8 Ways Different Team Members See Efforts To Innovate

Startup Professionals Musings

Every business organization, large or small, has a variety of individual and team member types that factor into your ability to innovate and change the business to meet evolving customer needs and competition. In my experience, new startup businesses are initiated primarily by these standalone innovators, popularly called entrepreneurs.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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He had an idea for a startup that would help consumers better book service jobs and would take on Service Magic, which he believed had a business model that could be disrupted. I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan. In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. Nice sweep!

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5 Keys To Relying On Intuition In Business Decisions

Startup Professionals Musings

As an advisor to entrepreneurs for many years, I strongly disagree, and still see the value of at least combining intuition with logical analysis, as we face customers and markets driven by relationships, emotions, and unpredictable social trends. The venerable Steve Jobs was reportedly in the same category.

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Changes in Software & Venture Capital – Part 2 of 3

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.&# Surprisinly, this strategy works well with many entrepreneurs. It’s as though we forgot the management mantra of the 90′s about “core competencies&# or the most common VC advice to entrepreneurs: Focus. I doubt this will end well for those VCs or for the entrepreneurs they backed. Funny, that.

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How to Set a Growth Culture in Your Startup Early

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the big advantages of being an entrepreneur and starting your company from scratch is that you get to set the culture, which is much easier than changing the culture of an existing business. For startups, this means knowing where you need help and where you need helpers, and hiring carefully. Train all the time. Marty Zwilling.

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Should Work Relationships Ever Be Friendships or More?

Startup Professionals Musings

in sociology, and a coach and speaker on work issues and friendship. Positive workplace relationships can help balance some difficult issues you are facing outside of work. Can be a competitive advantage. Competition over salary, promotions, and position. A fourth category is more intimately romantic relationships.

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