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7 Startup Laws Of Finance That You Dare Not Shortcut

Startup Professionals Musings

I found a good summary of the most common mistakes in a classic book by Kelly Clifford, “ Profit Rocket ,” written primarily to help you on the other side of the equation – skyrocket your profits. Thinking you are profitable once money begins to flow in. This difference will kill your profit margin. Not having a budget.

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8 Strategies For Sustaining Momentum In Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Your focus for momentum could be sales, profitability, or number of customers, but trying to keep all possible parameters growing is simply not practical. Plan a long-term strategy, and avoid crisis moves. That means you need to focus early on where you need to be in five years, and focus on strategic planning on a regular basis.

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5 Steps To Finding The Best Investor For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. Outside of work is where you can best evaluate the chemistry match, and decide whether you can enjoy and learn from the relationship.

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6 Marketing Specifics That Apply To Every New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Learn to speak a new customer-specific dialect based on current research and homework. Many entrepreneurs fear giving away their very best insights, strategies, or tools via social media – it might diminish the demand and the profit. Be passionate about what you do, but develop a really strong plan, and a strong plan B too.

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10 Questions To Lead You To Timely Successful Change

Startup Professionals Musings

What works is a documented change request and review process, as well as quantification of resources required as well as anticipated incremental results. What does a good plan look like? Calibrate the plan with resources available to deliver it. Calibrate the plan with resources available to deliver it.

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Tips for Boosting Your Real Estate Business

The Startup Magazine

The real estate industry is highly competitive, and growing a successful real estate business requires strategic planning, continuous learning, and effective implementation of proven techniques. That’s why you need to learn more about some of the most valuable tips to help you grow your real estate business.

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9 Messages From Sales Training May Save Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Experts argue that it’s more important to have a great plan, and personal business acumen. Then every startup has to learn to pivot, because their first understanding of the real problem is usually not quite right. Push marketing doesn’t work well today, in the age of interactive networking and peer reviews. Marty Zwilling.

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