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5 Risk Reduction Strategies For Your Next New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

And we all know Facebook didn’t invent social media. Certainly I’m not recommending just one more Facebook, with a couple of features from Twitter, since social media has an unlimited potential for innovation. Timing is critical, as well as focus on marketing and customer satisfaction.

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5 Keys To Reducing Startup Risk By Building On Trends

Startup Professionals Musings

And we all know Facebook didn’t invent social media. Certainly I’m not recommending just one more Facebook, with a couple of features from Twitter, since social media has an unlimited potential for innovation. Timing is critical, as well as focus on marketing and customer satisfaction.

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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. If you don’t have a high level of commitment and passion, you customers won’t seek you out.

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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. If you don’t have a high level of commitment and passion, you customers won’t seek you out.

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8 Tips For Success In Turning A Dream Into A Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Over time, I have collected a list of new business attributes that go beyond the initial idea or solution, which often are more critical to long-term success and satisfaction. As an investor, I want to hear about you, what you have done, and why this is important to you. Solutions and inventions alone do not make a business.

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A Startup That Imitates, With Innovation, Often Wins

Startup Professionals Musings

And we all know Facebook didn’t invent social media. Certainly I’m not recommending just one more Facebook, with a couple of features from Twitter, since social media has an unlimited potential for innovation. Timing is critical, as well as focus on marketing and customer satisfaction.

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Growing A Services Business Requires Selling Yourself

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. If you don’t have a high level of commitment and passion, you customers won’t seek you out.