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10 Tips For Entering The Startup Community This Year

Startup Professionals Musings

It takes much the same preparation to make you the best entrepreneur, or the best job candidate. Here are some tips from both his perspective and mine to stave off the coming summer “brain drain” and focus on the next step of employment, or starting a whole new career as an entrepreneur: Create and control your Internet image.

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6 Marketing 101 Tips For Technology Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet I see many technology entrepreneurs that focus on the basics of marketing too little and too late. I like the guidance from marketing coach David Newman’s recent book “ Do It! Marketing ,” which provides some pragmatic marketing tips for small businesses as follows: Don’t tell customers how great you are. Marty Zwilling.

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How Smart Entrepreneurs Don’t Hesitate To Seek Help

Startup Professionals Musings

Thus, in my consulting with entrepreneurs, I always encourage them to get more comfortable asking for help. I found some good guidance on this subject in a new book, “ The Leader You Want To Be ,” by Amy Jen Su, a managing partner in an executive coaching and leadership development firm.

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7 Tips For Building The Right People Relationships

Startup Professionals Musings

I find that the most successful entrepreneurs have mastered the art and skill of building and managing relationships. In my role as a mentor to business professionals and entrepreneurs over the years, I have found that it’s important to take a hard look at the relationships around you on a regular basis. A good coach is not a critic.

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6 Keys To Marketing That Many Entrepreneurs Overlook

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet I see many technology entrepreneurs that focus on the basics of marketing too little and too late. I like the guidance from marketing coach David Newman’s classic book “ Do It! Marketing ,” which provides some pragmatic marketing tips for small businesses as follows: Don’t tell customers how great you are. Marty Zwilling.

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Five Startup Tips From Bill Gates

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Mark noted that even if an entrepreneur does not become a master developer, by simply understanding the software development process, they will be a more effective startup leader. This frugality was evidenced by the fact that everyone at Microsoft, even Gates, flew coach until well into the late 1990s. " [Tweet this quote].

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6 Pragmatic Marketing Tips To Ramp-Up Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet I see many technology entrepreneurs that focus on the basics of marketing too little and too late. I like the guidance from marketing coach David Newman’s classic book “ Do It! Marketing ,” which provides some pragmatic marketing tips for small businesses as follows: Don’t tell customers how great you are. Marty Zwilling.

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