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How Smart Entrepreneurs Don’t Hesitate To Seek Help

Startup Professionals Musings

While starting a new business always involves tackling many new challenges, I’ve personally found myself reluctant to ask for help. I suspect it’s a function of pride and confidence in my own problem solving abilities, but my hesitation has definitely cost me time and money. Of course, there are good ways and bad ways to ask for help.

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How the New Shopify-TikTok Partnership Helps Small Businesses

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But it is a new opportunity, and some stores will definitely take full advantage. It's definitely a top contender in the ecommerce world: We've rounded up all the top ecommerce website builders here , and it's second only to Wix in our estimation. But the first step is making sure that Shopify is your best option. forward. .

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Helping Startups Understand Salespeople & the Sales Culture

Both Sides of the Table

By definition an MVP (minimum viable product) means there’s room for improvement. there is a nascent industry to try and help you with this, too. Don’t get my wrong – a great looking product can really help support a sale. ” They want technical sales to help with customer objections. Or whatever.

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6 Sources of Help For Early Stage Concept Exploration

Startup Professionals Musings

The first is to be more precise in your definition and understanding of where you are, and how the money will be spent. Yet I still get too many business plans that clearly are looking for money to do research and development (R&D) on a new and unproven technology.

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indie Semiconductor Acquires TeraXion

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Aliso Viejo-based indie Semiconductor, a developer of semiconductors for the automotive industry, says it has signed a definitive agreement to acquired TeraXion, a designer and manufacturer of photonic components. According to indie, the acquisition will help it in the rapidly growing LiDAR market.

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How ProGuides Is Helping Gamers Master Their Game, With Sam Wang

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Once you've exhausted looking online for tips, Los Angeles-based ProGuides (www.proguides.com) offers up professional, instructional content to help you improve your skills at such popular titles as League of Legends, Hearthstone, and Fortnite. That allows them to find a coach to help them play better. How did you start the company?

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How a Tourist Can Help you with Your Startup

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And if I’m going to help a bit while I’m here the better I know ‘what’s what’ the easier it will be for me to help and be on my way.&#. I think one of the greatest weaknesses of boards is that they are tourists by definition and sometimes confuse their observations and advice for actionable insights.

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