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How Great Entrepreneurs Spell Continuous Innovation

Startup Professionals Musings

It starts with a vision, but benefits quickly from a structured process of idea generation, evaluation, prototyping, customer feedback, and success metrics. Innovative technologies have no value until they are turned into solutions to real customer problems. Training and coaching. Set milestones and meet them. Ownership.

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Fuel50: Helping Employees Figure Out Their Career Path, With Anne Fulton

socalTECH

You can find a mentor, a coach, a project, or experience, to help you prepare for the role you are looking for. We were originally operating as a coaching company, and we built out this assessment technology for our own clients. How is it your first customer was in Australia? It's very much matching pieces into a puzzle.

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5 Strategy Realities For Running Your Small Business

Startup Professionals Musings

With a tiny organization, small businesses can make decisions quickly, allowing them to respond quickly to customer input and changes. As a small business owner and entrepreneur, you may relish the flexibility and the challenge of getting that first traction and customer recognition. Sharing the same space also facilitates creativity.

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

By spending more time educating your board on your business you get more valuable advice from them. Partly out of the fact that in 1 week I depart for England to speak at LeWeb, attend our DataSift board meeting and generally make myself available to the DataSift team to meet their customers, partners and employees. Assigns tasks.

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Every Small Business Should Celebrate the Positives

Startup Professionals Musings

Sponsored by VISA Business Running a small business as an entrepreneur is a never-ending challenge of new products, customers, competitors, and an unpredictable economy. Beat the competition. Competition drives innovation, and innovation drives competition. The cycle never stops. Then you have to deal with the mistakes.

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Good Entrepreneur Ethics Increase Business Value

Startup Professionals Musings

Translating that into business value, a study by Wirthlin Worldwide concluded that 80% of customers still base a good portion of their buy decision on their perception of that firm’s ethics. At the base of these are moral values, but in my view most of the rest are gleaned from experience, parents, and formal education.

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Learn to ‘Do the Right Thing’ for Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Translating that into business value, a study by Wirthlin Worldwide concluded that 80% of customers still base a good portion of their buy decision on their perception of that firm’s ethics. At the base of these are moral values, but in my view most of the rest are gleaned from experience, parents, and formal education.

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