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Founder Interview: Abraham Gin on Entrepreneurs and Leadership

The Startup Magazine

Abraham Gin, an entrepreneur, business coach, and CEO of Gin Consulting Group , which provides unique leadership development and training platforms. Abraham serves his clients with both forward-looking business growth strategy and digital marketing through leadership applications partners. What problems does it solve?

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How To Build A Great Startup In The Age Of Disruption

Startup Professionals Musings

The cost of entry to the entrepreneur lifestyle is at an all-time low, but the challenge of winning and success is at an all-time high. Customers have come to expect disruptive change, so yet another social network is not the way to get traction. For them, adapting and stretching their limits is the norm.

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7 Strategies For Brand Leadership Through Influencers

Startup Professionals Musings

The actions required to become an influencer today are all related to traditional leadership, but key elements need to be given a much higher priority in this age of the Internet and pervasive video. After becoming a recognized influencer in that domain, he was able to quickly expand his business leadership.

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6 Ways To Learn The Realities For Starting A Business

Startup Professionals Musings

The common term for this is networking, but I find that many aspiring entrepreneurs like to do all the talking about their latest new idea and fail to listen. Reserve some time each day for your favorite blogs and influencers, follow up with social networking and expand your personal contacts offline.

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8 Attributes Of Entrepreneurs Who Transform Society

Startup Professionals Musings

Harris, in his classic book “ Transformative Entrepreneurs ,” provides examples of key elements of transformative ideas and leadership abilities that separate the winners from the losers. Entrepreneurs who have been really transformative, like Steve Jobs and Walt Disney, seemed to know how to deal with all the right elements. Innovate or die.

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8 Key Startup Drivers Bring Pleasure As Well As Sweat

Startup Professionals Musings

There is nothing more inspiring than seeing the results of your mentoring and leadership. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Word of mouth advertising and viral marketing cost big bucks these days so budget for it. Both are networks. Your solution fills a real market need.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking.