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8 Employee Behaviors Challenge Every Business Leader

Startup Professionals Musings

The most valuable assets of a new startup are the people on the team, and the most challenging task of the entrepreneur and team leaders is to spend their leadership time and energy productively. Most new startup founders start out by assuming they need to spread their leadership efforts evenly across all team members. Squeaky wheels.

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5 Stages Of The Market Lifecycle Gate Startup Success

Startup Professionals Musings

As a frequent advisor to new entrepreneurs and startups, I often hear your frustration with being treated differently from other startups by investors, on expectations for valuation , traction, and market size. For many years, startups featuring all-electric vehicles fell into this stage of the business lifecycle.

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8 Team Member Types Test Your Entrepreneur Leadership

Startup Professionals Musings

The most valuable assets of a new startup are the people on the team, and the most challenging task of the entrepreneur and team leaders is to spend their leadership time and energy productively. Most new startup founders start out by assuming they need to spread their leadership efforts evenly across all team members. Squeaky wheels.

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7 Indications Your New Venture May Not Be Investable

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet everyone has limits, and every investor implicitly has similar limits on what makes a startup investable, or one to avoid at all costs. Here is my perspective on the highest risk elements, from my years of working with investors and watching startups come and go: All the co-founders are first-time entrepreneurs.

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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?

Both Sides of the Table

In this post I set out to explain why the seed market emerged as its own category in the first place and why it’s declined as of late. ( The reality is that as a result of two major trends the costs of starting a technology startup went down massively. The “A Round” of my startup in 1999 was $16.5

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8 Priorities When Offering A New Product Or Service

Startup Professionals Musings

Solution may require new category development time. These disruptive technologies also have the potential for exposing your business to new competitors, including a wealth of startups that can jeopardize your core business, and redefine the marketplace. Make sure new solutions offered actually build your brand, rather than dilute it.

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The Great Retail Reinvention: How the Internet Is Reshaping the Way We Buy Clothing

View from Seed

Apparel is currently one of the most fascinating categories within the Everyday Economy. But unlike some other categories of commerce, I’m not convinced Amazon is the ultimate winner here. That said, the apparel category also has some healthy threats and challenges from an investment perspective. American Apparel.

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