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5 Unfair Advantages To Help You Succeed In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the things I’ve learned over my years as a business mentor and investor is that life isn’t fair when it comes to succeeding in business. Use friends and mentors with extensive experience to gauge both. The key is to keep learning, from mentors, books, and online. The more you have, the greater your potential.

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8 Marketing Multipliers To Boost Your Business Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

Participate in industry conferences and expositions. Finally, key national conferences will show you improvements you need to make in areas that can create multipliers without breaking your business. At least, these professional networking events allow you to get out of the office and meet people who can help.

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5 Strategies Of A Startup Founder To Inspire The Team

Startup Professionals Musings

It also helps to create office events for family members and local community groups. Team members need time, and your support, to attend conferences and professional organizations to stay in touch with colleagues and peers. The most senior leaders then become coaches and mentors, rather than the source of all decisions.

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Accelerate Your Startup With Help From An Incubator

Startup Professionals Musings

I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors. Shared business support services, including telephone answering, conference rooms, teleconferencing, administrative support, and a business mailing address. Mentoring and technical assistance from volunteer or paid experts.

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6 Keys To Selecting The Right Business Future For You

Startup Professionals Musings

As a mentor to young aspiring entrepreneurs , I often get asked for tips on a strategy to get started. I favor the more cautious approach, and would offer the following insights to help you make the right decisions: Join a startup or take a role in an existing business. Acquire and get familiar with required business tools.

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5 Keys To A Startup Team That Can Develop Any Market

Startup Professionals Musings

It also helps to create office events for family members and local community groups. Team members need time, and your support, to attend conferences and professional organizations to stay in touch with colleagues and peers. The most senior leaders then become coaches and mentors, rather than the source of all decisions.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

I started my first company in 1999 and was admittedly swept up in all of this: Magazine covers, fancy conferences, artificial valuations and easy money. I learned to avoid unnecessary conferences, avoid non-essential costs and strive for at least a neutral EBITDA if for no other reason than nobody was interested in giving us any more money.