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10 Tips To Ensure That Your New Venture Is Investable

Startup Professionals Musings

Here are some pragmatic tips on how to make your startup more scalable and investable: If you need investors, start with a scalable idea. Outsource what is non-strategic to optimize leverage. Smart entrepreneurs never outsource their core competency, and never rely on intellectual property they don’t own.

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5 Tips To Keep Your Startup Productive, Not Just Busy

Startup Professionals Musings

For some reason, too many aspiring entrepreneurs I know seem to focus on “actions” rather than “results.” These are not the entrepreneurs that I want to support, since I’m well aware that running a startup is far more complex, albeit more satisfying, than most conventional roles in established enterprises.

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7 Tips To Getting A Bank Interested In Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Many entrepreneurs are convinced that banks are not worth the effort for startups, especially early-stage ones that still don’t have a revenue stream, or collateral to back up their financing needs. If you don't have a team on staff, then a banker is going to want to hear about outsourcing and advisors.

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10 Tips For Building The Most Scalable Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Here are some pragmatic tips on how to make your startup more scalable and investable: If you need investors, start with a scalable idea. Outsource what is non-strategic to optimize leverage. Smart entrepreneurs never outsource their core competency, and never rely on intellectual property they don’t own. Marty Zwilling.

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10 Keys To Enabling Your Startup For Unicorn Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

Here are some pragmatic tips on how to make your startup more scalable and investable: If you need investors, start with a scalable idea. Outsource what is non-strategic to optimize leverage. Smart entrepreneurs never outsource their core competency, and never rely on intellectual property they don’t own.

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Entrepreneurs Better Enjoy Getting Their Hands Dirty

Startup Professionals Musings

Others hire consultants, or outsource much of the real work. A diligent entrepreneur should certainly work the important details for his or her startup, especially when it comes to assessing any negative fluctuations in the business. These executives won’t survive long in a startup environment.

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10 Ways To Learn At a Startup To Be An Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

Here are some tips from a book by Harvey Mackay a while back, titled “ Use Your Head to Get Your Foot in the Door ,” which work even better in a startup than they do in a bigger company: Make yourself indispensible. You can’t outsource that one. entrepreneur startup Harvey Mackay employee business' Marty Zwilling.

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