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8 Key Disciplines Are Essential To Scale Any Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Image via Pixabay As a mentor to many small business owners, I always caution them that you can never relax completely, just because your initial solution or product set appears to be getting traction, and the market buzz is positive. Document processes and metrics for economies of scale.

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Launchpad LA Receives VC Funding: $50,000 Per Startup

Both Sides of the Table

To give visibility to these companies to: Sources of funding (angels / VCs), business development partners, mentors who have themselves built successful companies, the press and potential employees to hire. One senior mentor to Launchpad LA recently said, “I got more out of Launchpad LA than I even put in.

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Why Am I So Lucky?

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He’s an incredibly smart investor and somebody that I actually consider to be a mentor to myself. My email back to him was a version of. I got an email recently from a VC who had invested in a company a small amount in a seed round. I reviewed a deal for a friend of mine tonight. He has a team of 4 other such executives.

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5 Startup Challenges That Derail Many Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

As a mentor to entrepreneurs, I tend to see many of the same obstacles appearing in every new startup, and since I don’t want to appear to be a downer , I’m not sure how to properly warn people ahead of time to be on the alert for these challenges. Keep your plan updated, and don’t be caught off guard.

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7 Strategies To Avoid the Curse of Business-As-Usual

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, I still find businesses asking you to print, sign, and return documents by mail in lieu of digital signatures or email. You need to communicate quantified and updates goals quarterly, including the metrics to assess progress and success. In my mind, these are killing their businesses.

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How to Measure & Track Marketing

Jason Nazar

I’ve been a part of dozens (maybe hundreds) of product launches And in each of these cases I ask my team to put together a simple dashboard of a small set of metrics for our paid and free products that let me know the success of our efforts. For startup entrepreneurs, you can also track these metrics with Google analytics.

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How to make a business partnership a success

Berkonomics

community in many ways, including his weekly Internet TV program on entrepreneurism, and participation in several mentoring programs. . Email readers, continue here.] Clarify operation responsibilities and metrics used to measure performance. JJ is a successful entrepreneur and technologist giving back to the entrepreneurial.