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6 Cost-Cutting Recommendations For New Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

The same is true for filing patents, registering trademarks, and filing copyrights. You can now skip the mandatory office space rental, with secretary and bookkeeping staff, or outsourcing. Social media facilitates marketing and sales. Work out of your home, and keep your own books. Martin Zwilling.

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Maintain Your Startup Motivation While Working Harder

Startup Professionals Musings

Watch that patent provide a real barrier to competitive entry. At the same time, you can never let up on the work and the sweat required for continuous innovation, exemplary customer satisfaction, and staying ahead of competitors: Marketing is a never-ending challenge. This is a task that you should never delegate.

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Balance Your Focus Between Passion And Perspiration

Startup Professionals Musings

Watch that patent provide a real barrier to competitive entry. At the same time, you can never let up on the work and the sweat required for continuous innovation, exemplary customer satisfaction, and staying ahead of competitors: Marketing is a never-ending challenge. This is a task that you should never delegate.

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7 Ways Your People Skills Are The Key To Your Success

Startup Professionals Musings

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. Be a visible and available expert in your domain.

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7 Success Factors When Your People Are The Solution

Startup Professionals Musings

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. Be a visible and available expert in your domain.

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5 Steps To Get You From Your First Idea To A Business

Startup Professionals Musings

His challenge is to focus on one market, with a specific design, cost, and price. Then, he'll need to patent it and create a plan to show opportunity, competition, and financial projections. Don’t assume you can outsource the implementation decisions. For example, I have a friend with a Ph.D.

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Entrepreneurs Today Don’t Need A Big Budget To Start

Startup Professionals Musings

The same is true for filing patents, registering trademarks, and filing copyrights. You can now skip the mandatory office space rental, with secretary and bookkeeping staff, or outsourcing. Social media facilitates marketing and sales. Work out of your home, and keep your own books. Martin Zwilling.