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8 New Business Keys To Success For Real Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity. Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging. The cost of social media done well is low.

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8 Tips For Getting Your Startup Right The First Time

Startup Professionals Musings

Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity. Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging. The cost of social media done well is low.

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6 Steps To Move From Inspiration To Business Reality

Startup Professionals Musings

There are lots of resources available for the challenge of that activity, including the Internet and mentors like me. I suggest you use social media, blogging, crowdfunding, or documented research to quantify a real demand from people who can afford it, and don’t have a better alternative already out there.

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8 Keys To Starting A Venture With Minimal Equity Loss

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s equally easy to go online and incorporate your new entity, register some intellectual property and have some fun with social media for marketing and interacting with customers. With the advent of the Internet, the size and address of your office is irrelevant. Learn to be a generalist rather than a specialist.

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No, that IS NOT a competitive advantage

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Between this blog and reviewing applications to Capital Factory I see hundreds of pitches a year. No one can compete with my blog because it's copyrighted." Innovative design and intellectual property are no longer long-term competitive advantages. This is part 1 of the series: 5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches.

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8 Key Startup Drivers Bring Pleasure As Well As Sweat

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, never forget those ongoing perspiration items that seem to haunt you every day: Create intellectual property. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Some say the Internet is a metaphor for our brains. Marketing is top priority. Start even before the product is ready. Both are networks.

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8 Ways To Get Your Business Going Without Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s equally easy to go online and incorporate your new entity, register some intellectual property and have some fun with social media for marketing and interacting with customers. With the advent of the Internet, the size and address of your office is irrelevant. Learn to be a generalist rather than a specialist.