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How Baby Boomers Fit In The Realm Of Entrepreneurship

Startup Professionals Musings

Every startup needs two or three key advisors who have the domain experience, connections, and complementary skills to guide the founders through those early crises. Often the Boomer is more willing to work for equity, and easily convinced to step aside when revenues reach that next threshold. Member of the Advisory Board. Personnel Manager.

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6 Key Principles For Inducing Customers To Buy Today

Startup Professionals Musings

Authority – the guiding light. Perceived authorities guide decision making, by investing time, resources, and activity in earning a position of influence, leading to a community of loyalists who follow their recommendations. Social psychology in general deals with how individuals relate to one another.

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Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams

Feld Thoughts

Matt Blumberg has a new book out titled Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams. It’s a follow-up to his previous book, Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business. Fred called me and said, “Let’s figure out a deal.”

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Startups Are Not Just The Realm Of Young Generations

Startup Professionals Musings

Every startup needs two or three key advisors who have the domain experience, connections, and complementary skills to guide the founders through those early crises. Often the Boomer is more willing to work for equity, and easily convinced to step aside when revenues reach that next threshold. Member of the Advisory Board. Personnel Manager.

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7 Barriers To Communication In Business Relationships

Startup Professionals Musings

Most business mentors tell me that the single biggest problem they have to deal with in small companies is the lack of open, honest, and effective communication, both from the top down and from the bottom up. Some entrepreneurs forget that talking is not communicating.

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5 Key Points Of Focus For Every Scalable New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

You can review all the specifics of this approach in the classic book by Nathan Furr and Paul Ahlstrom, appropriately titled “ Nail It then Scale It: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Creating and Managing Breakthrough Innovation ,” but I will net it out here. It’s time for a new startup model.

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Infographic: A Guide to Discovery Calls, How to Successfully Close a Deal

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Armed with the tools and strategies from this guide, you can master the art of discovery calls and unlock opportunities for successful deal closures and lasting business relationships. The post Infographic: A Guide to Discovery Calls, How to Successfully Close a Deal appeared first on WECAN.