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7 Steps To Greater Satisfaction As A New Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

In my role as mentor to many of you aspiring entrepreneurs, I often find you convinced that all you need to start is a unique innovation or idea , and now you are ready to jump in with both feet and enjoy the ride. Remember that being an entrepreneur is all about starting and running a business, after the initial invention.

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5 Keys To Reducing Startup Risk By Building On Trends

Startup Professionals Musings

It may not be as sexy, but starting a new business which builds on an existing technology or business model is usually less risky than introducing that ultimate new disruptive technology. Many of the major business successes started this way. Many of the major business successes started this way.

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of my ongoing posts on Startup Advice. The world has changed much since I started my first company in 1999. Tim started to change our processes. Tim encouraged us to set up a blog and start talking openly about what we were doing as a company and inviting comments. Back then it seemed foreign.

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Startup Children – How To Parent An Entrepreneur (Part II) - Sales Advice From Dr. Seuss

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Right from the start, Sam must endure the most painful of all forms of sales rejection, the personal attack. However, typical of an Optimistically Pessimistic entrepreneur, Sam never loses hope, and does gives up. Research – Sam’s persistence is not born of ignorance. However, Sam remains undeterred.

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4 Major Influences Set Your Startup Work Environment

Startup Professionals Musings

Startup work environments are always chaos, but they can still be great environments to work in, or they can be terrible. You as the founder are the starting point and definer, so you need to get it right. I did some research on this, and compared it with my own experience. Our satisfaction is strongly driven by this role set.

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8 Initiatives To Heighten Your Customer’s Experience

Startup Professionals Musings

Young entrepreneurs and startups, in particular, often remain naively unfocused, despite their passion, of what it takes to provide the high-quality service expected. It’s a tough job, and inexperienced entrepreneurs just don’t know where to start, and how to do it. Yet the average perception of customer experience has not improved.

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Founders Must Keep Their Startup Culture Positive

Startup Professionals Musings

Startup work environments are always chaos, but they can still be great environments to work in, or they can be terrible. You as the founder are the starting point and definer, so you need to get it right. I did some research on this, and compared it with my own experience. Our satisfaction is strongly driven by this role set.

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