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6 Management Strategies To Maintain Brand Leadership

Startup Professionals Musings

Every one of you business owners I know has worked hard to build your brand, and recognizes the critical value of instant brand recognition and leadership. The best approach is to listen and learn from them – and clarify your brand marketing, customer service, business model, or just find the right customers.

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7 Ethical Fictions Lead Many New Entrepreneurs Astray

Startup Professionals Musings

I saw a good summary of these in the classic book, “ Ethical Leadership ,” by Andrew Leigh, an expert in this area. I like his specifics for business leaders on improving and sustaining the best company cultures, and his summary of the cultural myths facing new business leaders: It’s easy to be ethical. Ethics can’t be managed.

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7 Strategies To Prepare For Tough Business Challenges

Startup Professionals Musings

Providing business leadership is a challenge under the best of circumstances, but it is especially difficult in times of market and customer crises. For example, the COVID-19 pandemic caught every company, large and small, off guard, and at least a third of small businesses did not survive.

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5 Pitfalls to Avoid When Transforming Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

No matter how well your business seems to have worked for you up to this point, you can be certain that it will need to be heavily transformed for tomorrow’s new world-wide economy and no industry sector boundaries. Most great business leaders, including Jeff Bezos , maintain a key internal team to study and implement the next steps.

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7 Delusions About Business Ethics Limit Future Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

I saw a good summary of these in a classic book, “ Ethical Leadership ,” by Andrew Leigh, an expert in this area. I like his specifics for business leaders on improving and sustaining the best company cultures, and his summary of the cultural myths facing new business leaders: It’s easy to be ethical. Ethics can’t be managed.

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Seed Stage Funding 101: What it Is & How it Works

The Startup Magazine

As a result of the fact that the typical business being evaluated by seed-stage investors needs a substantial amount of sales data or experience to draw on, seed-stage investors will consider the expected growth trajectory and existing track record, management, market share, and dangers. What is the Evaluation of the Funding?

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The 7 Traits of Super Founders

VC Cafe

“unique business models” – Successful startups develop business models that are difficult for competitors to replicate. To implement this trait, founders need to identify a unique value proposition and create a business model that is scalable and sustainable.

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