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8 Keys To Maximizing Your Confidence and Self-Esteem

Startup Professionals Musings

Every business leader and investor I know quickly sees through the façade, and tags you as a high risk and difficult person to work with. Everyone sees your energy applied more productively, and has the urge to help. A better alternative is to acknowledge your shortcomings, and use these to incent new skills and new behavior.

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Essential Tech Tips For Businesses

The Startup Magazine

The most effective way to do this is to embrace solar power or another alternative energy, or you could invest in energy-efficient equipment as a way to make your business greener. You should also try to make your business a paperless one if possible and again this will help to reduce your impact as well as your running costs.

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Ten Top Funding Sources for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Following is my prioritized larger list of sources, with some “rules of thumb” which may save you a lot of time and energy: Bootstrapping. The advantage is no time and effort searching and preparing for the other alternatives, and you don’t have to encumber yourself or give up control of your company. Small business grants.

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How to Effectively Manage and Motivate Remote Workers

Up and Running

For companies that are new to this state of things, one more challenge appeared: It’s the need for alternative collaboration methods with employees for their better motivation, engagement, and performance. Despite all the benefits remote work can bring, it requires tons of energy, self-discipline, and motivation.

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Non-Profits Need Angels, But Not Angel Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

The advantage is no time and effort is spent searching and preparing for the other alternatives, and no repayment terms or collateral are required. The grant source often gets overlooked, but it should be a major focus these days when relevant due to the Obama administration initiatives on alternative energy and healthcare.

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The Renewable Energy Sector is Fundable in 2011

Startup Professionals Musings

My picks for favorite startup sectors to improve your fundability in the new year include green, biotech, and renewable energy (also called alternative energy or sustainable energy). Renewable energy is any source that can be produced cleanly, will not disappear like fossil fuels, and is less polluting. Wind power.

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Go Green With Ten Startup Triple Bottom Line Ideas

Startup Professionals Musings

For those of you looking for startup ideas that are hot today and recession proof, consider anything to do with saving energy, sustaining the environment, or solutions to the global warming problem. Generate energy from the stuff you recycle. Renewable energy. Alternative transportation. Sustainable agriculture.

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