Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2017

Marty Zwilling Published by Xerox Small Business Solutions on 07/31/2017. The inverse case is that you can lose you competitive lead very quickly by focusing on the wrong things. Have you checked your customers’ experience lately?

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JULY 16, 2017

Marty Zwilling First published on Huffington Post on 07/15/2017. With that, you will have a strong foundation for success, as well as a great working relationship for the next thirty years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2017

Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 08/02/2017. That’s why smart investors, like the best ones in Silicon Valley, and the ones on Shark Tank , can tell a lot about the future success of a business, even before results.

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DECEMBER 27, 2017

Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/13/2017. With these questions, and the commensurate work on your part, you too can attract rockstars who can really make your winning technology a leading business in the marketplace.

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OCTOBER 30, 2017

Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 10/18/2017. Make your business a shared labor of love, rather than a battle.

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Technical Review Accredited Investor Due Diligence Equity 220

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/15/2017. Demanding an NDA too early is a sure way to kill your dream before the people who can help you even know what you have to offer.

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DECEMBER 16, 2017

In fact, angel investing seems to be leveling off at around $25 billion annually, while crowd funding is setting new records, expected to top $34 billion in 2017. Of course, both are impressive and both already exceed VC investments annually.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 08/09/2017. It won’t cost you the many thousands of dollars to outsource your prototype to China, and risk losing the intellectual property, and it will hook you up to peers and investors who can help you make your dream a reality. Now is the time to catch the wave and just do it yourself.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

According to a recent Ernst & Young global report , the first half of 2017 was the most active first half by global number of IPOs since 2007. Smart entrepreneurs are just now starting to look at this option again, due to its unpredictability and the challenges of running a public company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 09/14/2017. With scarce resources, this means that the average team is destined to flatline and fail. Don’t let your new business be the casualty.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 10/05/2017. Rather, it is much more about building a strategy to recognize change from early signals, and quickly transform your company to gain significant benefits from the change. The alternative is continual catch-up, and your eventual demise. How tired are you feeling today?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2017

Marty Zwilling First published on Huffington Post on 03/13/2017. Even happy people expect to be promoted, and do move on to other opportunities, so you have to plan for replacements as well as new business. Is your business able to grow and adapt as fast as the market changes these days?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

Marty Zwilling First published on Huffington Post on 11/10/2017. Yet every business still requires leadership, since competition and the pace of change dictate innovative actions on a regular basis to get results. Now is the time to capitalize on your strengths and maximize your leadership abilities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2017

Marty Zwilling Published by Xerox Small Business Solutions on 04/06/2017. That sounds to me like the recipe for business success that every entrepreneur and investor is looking for.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 11/10/2017. The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but if you can’t get over the fence quickly, you won’t live to enjoy it.

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Customer eCommerce Non-Compete Technical Review 130

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2017

Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 05/22/2017. If you can put technology aside long enough to focus on these principles, you too will find the funding you need, and beat the odds of success with your new venture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2017

Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 04/04/2017. This means that both you and your company need to be more agile, more open and willing to learn, and rethink your focus on the future versus the present. Sometimes you have to make waves today to balance and survive the waves already starting to crash around you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Marty Zwilling First published on Huffington Post on 02/12/2017. Thus, if you are a business leader who intends to survive and thrive in the long-term, it’s time to start today by checking the culture of your teams. Your career and your company’s future depend on it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Marty Zwilling First published on Huffington Post on 12/09/2017. Great business leaders have figured out how to apply the right attention, time, and tools to both. Where are you along this spectrum?

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Management Analytics Open Source Hiring 134

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2017

Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 03/07/2017. Don’t be one of the many small businesses I see that crawls along at a snail’s pace, and ultimately gets stepped on by the competition. Keep your eye on the data and the analytics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 10/09/2017. In my view, if more entrepreneurs spent the same amount of time finding the right partners and team members that they often spend developing the right solutions, the failure rate of startups would fall quickly from the current 90 percent in five years to maybe half that rate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 09/21/2017. I’m convinced that an entrepreneurial mindset is precisely what you need in order to survive and flourish in the twenty-first century. Are you on-board today?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Marty Zwilling First published on Huffington Post on 12/03/2017. They all play directly into another megatrend I see in business – moving from a single bottom line of economic value, to the triple bottom line of economic, social, and environmental value. Be there with innovation and design thinking, or plan to get pushed aside soon.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2017

Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 05/02/2017. Those who extend a helping hand to others always have much to gain, in business as well as their own personal satisfaction. In the words of an ancient Buddhist proverb, “If you light a lamp for someone, it will also brighten your own path.”

Technical Review 154

Technical Review Agile Social Media Partner 154

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2017

Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 05/09/2017. If you find a big mismatch, it’s time to dig deeper inside your own perspective to find the root cause, and focus on one of more of the initiatives outlined earlier, to minimize the disparity. The future of your career, and your company, depends on it.

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North America Technical Review Vertical Europe 136

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2017

Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 06/19/2017. Managers you remember and respect, even if their approach is unconventional, are the few who focus on making a difference in the lives of the people they manage. That’s a win-win opportunity that we should all strive for.

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Management Employee Reputation Hiring 146

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2017

Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 01/17/2017. The difference is that developing a new solution typically requires specialized skills, creative thinking, and strong passion, while starting a business is more about planning, disciplined actions, and problem solving. Don’t lose the race halfway to the finish line.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2017

Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 01/13/2017. It’s time to take a hard look at what more you can do to build a positive emotional relationship with every customer, and entice them to pull everyone they know away from competitors.

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Customer Technical Review Social Media Campaign 120

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2022

exabytes per month at the end of 2017, of which more than half was video. Per a recent study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic has grown 17-fold over the past 5 years, reaching 11.5

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JULY 3, 2022

by 15 million users since 2017, as young people ages 12 to 17 migrate to Snapchat and Instagram. Where did your friends go? While Pinterest and Tumbler have seen activity increases approaching 100%, The Verge reports that Facebook usage has declined in the U.S. Maybe they just don’t care.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Marty Zwilling First published on Huffington Post on 11/18/2017. Business leaders, and every member of their team, need to proactively use lateral thinking skills to develop and nurture creativity and innovation. Your long-term business survival depends on it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 11/01/2017. Perhaps it’s time for employees and team members to adopt and display these traits as well, especially the one about empathy for the challenges that your manager is facing. Only then can it be a win-win relationship for both parties.

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Employee Technical Review Leadership Management 139

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 02/09/2017. Yet, I find the delivery of professional services to be one of the most satisfying and fulfilling types of entrepreneurship, where you can actually build relationships with customers, see directly your impact on the world, and have some fun at the same time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 01/24/2017. Also, real change takes more than the one person at the top – it takes the engagement of all team members internally, as well as external constituents. Are all your stars aligned for change?

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Metrics Video Cost Revenue 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2017

Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 01/05/2017. Through this approach they achieved the early investor funding they needed, but more importantly they continue to achieve a level of business success and satisfaction that every business envies. Match their focus on work ethic, and you too can join them.

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Angel Investor Technical Review Matching Hiring 120

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 31, 2017

Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 03/14/2017. There is no room for excuses, a pity party, or a sense of luck running against you. Are you ready to enjoy the challenge of the journey, as well as the success of reaching the destination?

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Advisory Board Social Media Cofounder Technical Review 120

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

exabytes per month at the end of 2017, of which more than half was video. Per the latest study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic has grown 17-fold over the past 5 years, reaching 11.5

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