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6 Keys To Selecting The Right Business Future For You

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The challenge is when and how to make the switch to the entrepreneur lifestyle. As a mentor to young aspiring entrepreneurs , I often get asked for tips on a strategy to get started. Check out local sources for coaching and assistance. Remember that investors tend to fund entrepreneurs, not ideas.

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The Importance of Realism in Startups

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It’s only 12 minutes long and if you’re a first-time entrepreneur (or second time, frankly) I encourage you to watch it if for nothing else than to get a sense that your struggles are universal. Startups are filled with enormously talented people – often product people & engineers. ” We learn from mistakes.

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Understanding the Politics of Tech Startups

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Many startups these days are started by young, technical or product founders who are in the idealistic phase of their lives and careers. It’s why I called out the importance of “executive coaches” in this post. Given how important people management is it’s surprising more of us don’t have group coaches.

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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. This will continue while we’re in a tech bull market and I predict will wane when we’re not.

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How to Run Better Presentations & Improve Results

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For extroverted people I recommend that entrepreneurs have an “executive summary&# slide up front that cuts to the chase. I usually say something like, “I know this market reasonably well so feel free to pick up the pace and drop from 50k feet to 5k feet. You’ve got 20 slides and we’re only on page 3.

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Interview with Milo Sindell, Knowledge Genie

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You could create a business process design Genie, and announce it through public relations or social networking efforts, and direct them to a login page. As part of your launch, we can integrate Google or Paypal payment options into the login page. Milo Sindell: There are three broad markets.

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

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is the second largest designated market area (DMA) in the country, so youre starting with a natural talent pool of very interesting people, and also, a market from which to sell your goods and services into. If you look at Google in the way they operate, you have two products, one is called AdWords, one is called AdSense, okay?