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Generative AI – The End of Empty Textboxes

TechEmpower

As part of the onboarding process, the app asks both job seekers and employers what they’re looking for - in a text box - while providing a few suggestions in a pop-up. I bring my passion for numbers to the classroom every day, drawing from my experience to inspire my students. For example, let’s consider Mark.

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8 Tactics To Make Service Your Competitive Advantage

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. Build a service vision that everyone sees as clearly as you.

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6 Marketing Specifics That Apply To Every New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

You can have the best technology, but if customers don’t know you exist, or they don’t know how your technology solves a real problem for them, your startup will fail. How many customers will have any idea what this means to them? I like the guidance from marketing coach David Newman’s classic book “ Do It!

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10 Common Startup Mistakes That Are Rarely Admitted

Startup Professionals Musings

These things outside your control do happen, but based on my years of experience as a startup advisor and angel investor, I still see too many strategies leading to failure that are inside the entrepreneur decision realm. I believe the old adage that you don’t know what you don’t know until you try to write it down.

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10 Classic Rules For Venture Success That Still Apply

Startup Professionals Musings

Building successful businesses still requires the ability to find and inspire the best people who “have what you haven't,” whether that be skills, knowledge, connections, or funding. Then you must extend these alliances to vendors, partners, customers, and even competitors (coopetition). Master-mind alliance. Applied faith.

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Passion For What You Do

Mike Michalowicz

Love isn’t something you need to divide, it grows to meet each child and each experience. Passion For What You Do. You start a business, and from it is born countless opportunities and ventures. And just like mom, we fear that we don’t have enough passion to go around.

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7 Indications Your New Venture May Not Be Investable

Startup Professionals Musings

If you aren’t willing to take some risk as an entrepreneur, then don’t expect any gain. Yet everyone has limits, and every investor implicitly has similar limits on what makes a startup investable, or one to avoid at all costs. You need a big differentiator in these arenas. Your startup is in a high-failure-rate business sector.