Hearpreneur

JUNE 9, 2023

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners how they deal with economic uncertainty and here are the responses. #1- 1- Sticking to the plan Photo Credit: Michael Van Gerpen A mistake a lot of small businesses make is to pivot or take their foot off the accelerator at the first sign of economic uncertainty.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2021

This trend is promising despite the rising usage of email, instant messaging applications, and social media platforms, . Business to Consumer (B2C) – It is the most common type of business model. Why is an Uber for courier app a viable business idea for entrepreneurs? This boosts the trust of users.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Most of these can sound like common sense, but you’d be surprised how many founders skip this initial research. Common mistakes to avoid in your pitch deck. Entree Capital published an interesting post on red-flags in pre-seed decks and I thought it’s worth sharing the common pitfalls here as well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2023

When I heard a friend and business mentor say, “Your startup won’t fail if you don’t quit,” I realized that every entrepreneur should adopt “never give up” as their mantra. Nothing is more discouraging to aspiring entrepreneurs than the high failure rate. We all make people mistakes or set employees' expectations too high.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2015

These approaches allow your startup to grow more rapidly, save costs, but costly mistakes can lead to business failure. He is regarded by many as the number-one authority on virtual staffing and personal outsourcing, and is himself a successful entrepreneur based in the Philippines. I expect everyone working for me to adopt my culture.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2023

With the availability of high-speed Internet and social media access around the world, it’s easy for entrepreneurs to assume that the world is just one big homogeneous market, and project their business will scale accordingly. The most common mistake is overestimating a particular market’s potential, based on your domestic context.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2022

Some entrepreneurs will say the future is definitely bright but to others, some of these changes are meant to work against their expansion and business operations. We don't have enough young people taking on new challenges, developing their skills, and learning from their mistakes. 4- Entrepreneurs would do well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2023

As an entrepreneur mentor and startup investor, I see with sadness the 50 to 90 percent that fail. Every business, young or old, needs to avoid the following six mistakes that he outlines: Anticipating success based on the recent past. But I’m not convinced that it’s as simple as that. Relying on an old formula for success.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 22, 2016

Consultation with legal experts in the field, such as experienced business lawyers in Melbourne , can ensure that you avoid these 5 monumental and costly legal mistakes commonly made by startups: 1. Developing a startup is an incredibly exciting time for any business entrepreneur. Choosing the incorrect business structure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2015

Every entrepreneur I know has their favorite excuse for a previous failure – an investor backed out, the economy took a downturn, or a supplier delivered bad quality. It’s important to learn from your own mistakes, but it’s even smarter to learn from someone else’s mistakes, without paying their high price in time lost, cost, and pain.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The first step–a conscious decision to be included and a commitment to meet the stringent quality, market and social impact standards the Wikipedia community upholds. Social media mentions do not help. It is well advised to avoid the all-too-common mistakes of working in Wikipedia without knowing the ropes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2022

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Yet very few achieve that great aspiration of really driving economic, social, and environmental changes on a global scale.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2022

A common pain of startups after an exhilarating first surge of early adopters is a long and frustrating plateau of slow growth, where it seems like nothing you do will get your business to profitability. Many entrepreneurs forget that the growth phase may be your tightest squeeze on cash. Real growth always requires real marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2016

Every entrepreneur I know has their favorite excuse for a previous failure – an investor backed out, the economy took a downturn, or a supplier delivered bad quality. It’s important to learn from your own mistakes, but it’s even smarter to learn from someone else’s mistakes, without paying their high price in time lost, cost, and pain.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2020

The syllabus is centred on responsible and social entrepreneurship on top of hospitality management. Are there any specific courses which are beneficial for any entrepreneur-to-be? For an entrepreneur to be successful, the business must be able to solve a particular problem and there will be demand from customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Successful entrepreneurs understand the difference between a good business relationship with more people and having more friends. In fact, the focus on social networking platforms, starting with Facebook, has destroyed the meaning of the word friend and even changed it from a noun to a verb.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 23, 2020

It’s easy to listen to that lyric and gloss over the advice within, yet successful entrepreneurs get it. Many entrepreneurs rightly see opportunity amid a crisis. Those compromises, of course, will be different for every entrepreneur and every industry, but leaders can consider them with the same angles and strategies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2010

If your startup can’t be bothered with social media, or has no plan to take advantage of it, then you are definitely at risk these days. They also identify clearly the five key social media mistakes that business often make, along the following lines: Diving in without a strategic plan. Not having a social media policy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Effective communication is an absolute requirement for successfully starting a business, but it doesn’t come naturally to many entrepreneurs. Communication is considered a social skill, and inventors and engineers, for example, are not known to be social butterflies. But these are subjects for another day.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2020

As part of The Startup Magazine Female Founder series , we sat down with award-winning entrepreneur Elizabeth Colón. Elizabeth enjoys sharing her success story with other female entrepreneurs. The resources and programs available to our members help female entrepreneurs level up their businesses at each stage of growth.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 25, 2017

The most remarkable leaders share one common and important trait and it isn’t their title. Howard Tullman , CEO of Chicago’s 1871 and a respected entrepreneur and leader, explains : The best entrepreneurs try to steer a steady course forward through constantly changing and challenging circumstances.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 3, 2019

Common mistakes to avoid. This is why entrepreneurs are often encouraged to build businesses that solve problems that they have themselves. Environment: Physical, social, and technological. Avoid these persona mistakes. Finally, here are a few mistakes to avoid when creating your first persona.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 1, 2018

So if you’re an entrepreneur, or want to pursue entrepreneurship, it’s time to start thinking ahead. What skills do you need to be an entrepreneur? What will you do as an entrepreneur? Tomorrow is an entrepreneur’s enemy. Successful entrepreneurs know that failure is rarely permanent. How can you be your own boss?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2021

Unfortunately, in today’s world where time is of the essence, none of us can afford to make all the mistakes personally and learn from them, so I always try to recommend some key strategies for moving more quickly into the wise category: Keep your eye on the big picture, to temper your passion. Understand and exercise political judgement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2020

With the availability of high-speed Internet and social media access around the world, it’s easy for entrepreneurs to assume that the world is just one big homogeneous market, and project their business will scale accordingly. The most common mistake is overestimating a particular market’s potential, based on your domestic context.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2020

As an entrepreneur mentor and startup investor, I see with sadness the 50 to 90 percent that fail. Every business, young or old, needs to avoid the following six mistakes that he outlines: Anticipating success based on the recent past. But I’m not convinced that it’s as simple as that. Relying on an old formula for success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

The common reason given is that this prevents any competitor from stealing their idea and beating them to market. Entrepreneurs talk to customers and competitors talk to each other about the new trends and technologies they see. In my view, this paranoid approach costs them much more than the risk of being open.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

But with extra features—links, attachments, video, social media follow buttons—the opportunity for mistakes also becomes greater. Mistakes are made. With all those users sending all of those words in all of those templates, it’s common for things to go wrong. As years pass, email continues to evolve. Unbelievable unsend.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2020

When I heard a friend and business mentor say, “Your startup won’t fail if you don’t quit,” I realized that every entrepreneur should adopt “never give up” as their mantra. Nothing is more discouraging to aspiring entrepreneurs than the high failure rate. We all make people mistakes or set employees' expectations too high.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Too many startups expose their business to unnecessary risk by making some common legal mistakes. Entrepreneurs find legal documents online or share documents with their friends. Here are five to watch out for: 1. Okay, I know – it’s tempting to use free legal documents.

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Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

As with any entrepreneurial venture, a social enterprise is bound to encounter some challenges in the process of starting up and becoming established. Below are some examples of mistakes social entrepreneurs have made and how they have learned from these mistakes. Read the whole article.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2022

The common thread in almost every element of delivering on strategy is your content. John Jantsch (08:56): It promises expert knowledge, mortifying mistakes, and raw insight into one of the fastest moving industries on the planet. It's an essential for any current or aspiring social media managers.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

The entrepreneur who founded and grew the largest startup in the world to $10 billion in revenue and got fired is someone you have probably never heard of. Who was the entrepreneur who founded what would become General Motors 16 years earlier, in 1904? “ Excessive automation at Tesla was a mistake.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Got a question for one of the entrepreneurs mentioned below? Ask an entrepreneur! I got to round up a group of great entrepreneurs who had been there, and get their tips so we could share them with you. Avoid making common mistakes and feeling overwhelmed. On common mistakes to avoid: “1.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2020

A common pain of startups after an exhilarating first surge of early adopters is a long and frustrating plateau of slow growth, where it seems like nothing you do will get your business to profitability. Many entrepreneurs forget that the growth phase may be your tightest squeeze on cash. Real growth always requires real marketing.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 11, 2016

If you make common mistakes , like not hiring the right people, you’re heading for trouble. In an insightful article in Entrepreneur, Gwen Moran gives four examples of problem employees from real-life examples, creating a humorous typology. Types of Bad Employees. What does a bad employee look like? The Poor Fit.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

Social Media. Social Media. Sites Jobs Events Social Good Summit Media Summit Career Expos. 16 Common Mistakes Young Startups Make. Lucky for you, time-strapped entrepreneur, weve gathered some tips from the pros to help you avoid some of the most common, game-ending mistakes committed by young startups.

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