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5 Key Steps For Launching A Successful Startup Today

Startup Professionals Musings

Based on my own mentoring and investing experience, the best entrepreneurs are pragmatic problem solvers. If you can explain the problem to a mentor, or even write it down, you will more likely get to the root cause quickly, and avoid emotional and blame-infused responses. Explore solutions, outcomes, and options calmly.

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8 Marketing Multipliers To Boost Your Business Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

You may focus only on Facebook, and missing customers who expect to see you on Instagram and YouTube. Get interactive with online users and customer feedback. Publishing your content is positive, but responding to customers online multiplies your impact. Sponsor customer events for visibility and giveaways.

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7 Keys To Focusing Only On Challenges You Can Control

Startup Professionals Musings

Listen to your team, mentors, and customers to recognize real successes and failures, and surround yourself with people who can fill in the gaps. Allocate your time and resources to customer expectations and competitor challenges. Research indicates this alone leads to higher performance much of the time.

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Does Your Entrepreneur View Match Your Startup Stage?

Startup Professionals Musings

As a mentor and advisor to entrepreneurs and startups, and an angel investor, my passion is to find and nurture those entrepreneurs with innovative business ideas and acumen, to make them into successful business owners. Market research and a business plan should be the focus at this stage. Startup and development stage.

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How Baby Boomers Fit In The Realm Of Entrepreneurship

Startup Professionals Musings

Another report from the Pew Research Center confirms that Boomers are still a third of the workforce, equal in size to the Gen-X segment and the Gen-Y segment. Boomer investors are much more likely to get in the game with a high focus on mentoring and give-back, as well as the financial return potential. Manage customer service.

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5 Keys To Breaking Through Success Barriers At Work

Startup Professionals Musings

Research has found that people with low resilience are four times more likely to experience burnout, or even premature death. You will learn to recognize that some friends and colleagues are always downers, and get their satisfaction from snuffing out your aspirations through negative thinking.

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8 Negative Reactions To New Ideas And How To Prevail

Startup Professionals Musings

The result is fewer and fewer new ideas are volunteered by prospective leaders and key team members, and the business suffers from poor customer satisfaction or loss of market share. Do your own research and gather supporting facts, rather than firing back with emotion and gut feel.

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