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10 Steps To Second Stage Success For Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Second-stage growth usually requires a formal sales model, an experienced and disciplined sales team, and a well-defined process to meet your new goals and demands. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships. Managing business growth is more than metrics.

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8 Business Accountability Lapses And How To Recover

Startup Professionals Musings

As a business investor, I look for investments where I see founders really holding their people accountable for their actions. You can and must fix this by communicating business goals and objectives, and establishing personal metrics which only reward success. A lack of openness to outside guidance and coaching.

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10 Keys To Surviving From A Startup To An Enterprise

Startup Professionals Musings

Second-stage growth usually requires a formal sales model, an experienced and disciplined sales team, and a well-defined process to meet your new goals and demands. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships. Managing business growth is more than metrics.

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10 Keys To Evolution From A Startup To An Enterprise

Startup Professionals Musings

Second-stage growth usually requires a formal sales model, an experienced and disciplined sales team, and a well-defined process to meet your new goals and demands. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships. Managing business growth is more than metrics.

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10 Steps To Scaling Your Startup Toward A Fortune 500

Startup Professionals Musings

Second-stage growth usually requires a formal sales model, an experienced and disciplined sales team, and a well-defined process to meet your new goals and demands. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships. Managing business growth is more than metrics.

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8 Key Ingredients to a Profitable Consulting Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet, according to statistics from the Small Business Association (SBA), over half of new businesses offer something else - personal professional services, including consulting, business coaching, and advisory services. Announcing that you are a consultant, and hoping demand will set your focus, is not a good strategy.

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The Next Business Stage Requires Aggressive Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

Second-stage growth usually requires a formal sales model, an experienced and disciplined sales team, and a well-defined process to meet your new goals and demands. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships. Managing business growth is more than metrics.

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