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8 Strategies For Business Professionals To Stay Ahead

Startup Professionals Musings

As a business advisor and advocate for entrepreneurs, I find myself almost always talking and writing about change. Anything less makes you non-competitive. If you are committed to devices, work is always at the top of the screen. Yet peers and customers notice phone calls and e-mails not returned in twenty-four hours or less.

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8 Business Work Principles That Cannot Be Compromised

Startup Professionals Musings

As a business advisor and advocate for entrepreneurs, I find myself almost always talking and writing about change. Anything less makes you non-competitive. If you are committed to devices, work is always at the top of the screen. Yet peers and customers notice phone calls and e-mails not returned in twenty-four hours or less.

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7 Staffing Strategies That May Cost You Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Trying to save costs by seeking resumes on the Internet will result in poor quality candidates, more time required for screening and interviews, and high turnover. I recommend a thirty to ninety-day trial period, defined in writing, where either party can terminate the relationship without recourse. It won’t happen by default.

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Putting an End to the Dark Ages of Local Businesses

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She entered you reservation by writing in a time slot in a paper calendar and you were in. and there was certainly less competition from everybody pitching local merchant solutions. If you want to get a quick sense of the app there’s a short screen cast here that make it obvious what it does. It sounds crazy, right?

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How I Invest

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I answered in the same way I always do so I thought I’d just write it publicly. “I As a starting point I have to believe the founder has the attributes of an entrepreneur that matter most to me : Tenacity, resiliency, inspiration, perspiration, attention-to-detail, competitiveness, decisiveness, risk tolerance and integrity.

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7 Ways To Hire Your Way To Failure In A New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Trying to save costs by seeking resumes on the Internet will result in poor quality candidates, more time required for screening and interviews, and high turnover. I recommend a thirty to ninety-day trial period, defined in writing, where either party can terminate the relationship without recourse. It won’t happen by default.

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Should Startups Announce Their Funding?

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I will add to this as I write more in the coming weeks on the topic. The funding rounds will also build customer confidence and they’ll help journalists feel air cover in writing your more important pieces when you brag about customers, traction, revenue or whatever. ” Funding IS the story. Funding is news.

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