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An Entrepreneur Platform To Put You Above the Crowd

The space for startups is more crowded than ever. First of all, it’s now international, so you have startups from every country in the world competing for your customer’s attention and their business. Then there is the Internet, delivered through every media, including your smart phone, where the volume of data spewing out is like […]

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Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals

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How important is previous business experience to a VC or angel when investing in a start up?

It’s true, but… Starting a company is NOT at all easy, and unfortunately there simply is no way to really learn about it other than by doing it. No book, school, mentoring, or even apprenticeship can substitute for hands-on experience. When you consider that doctors spend a minimum of two years in pre-med, four years in med […]

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8 Reality Checks That Every Startup Founder Dreads

Starting a business is a lot like starting a marriage. At first, all parties are in dreamland, with a vision of changing the world, having lots of fun, and raking in the profits. But all too soon, reality sets in. Product development is stuck at that 90% mark, a key person leaves, and customers are […]

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Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals

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6 Reasons Why Focus is Job One for Every Startup

It’s great to dream big, but your startup needs a laser focus in the beginning to get market and investor attention. Google did it with search engines, Apple did it with a personal computer, and even Wal-Mart did it through low prices. A business plan I saw a while back to combine all the good […]

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Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals

Test Your Business Model Against These 10 Elements

Investors Seek Out Entrepreneurs With Resilience

If you haven’t had a failure, you aren’t pushing the limits. If you are really an entrepreneur, you are a risk taker and less cautious by nature, so failures should be expected. Wear you startup failure as a badge of courage. Don’t go after failure, but embrace it when it does happen and grow from […]

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Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals

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