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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 […]
Martin Zwilling
Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals
16 Jun 2013
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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 […]
Martin Zwilling
Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals
9 Jun 2013
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How Many Key Leadership Principles Do You Practice?

Creating and building a business is not a one-man show. It requires a team effort, or at least the ability to build trust and confidence among key players, and effectively communicate with partners, team members, investors, vendors, and customers. These actions are the hallmark of an effective leader. Behind the actions are a set of […]
Martin Zwilling
Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals
2 Jun 2013
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Is Connecting People a Business Model? I Doubt It.

Is connecting people a business model? I don’t think so. Connecting people is what happens when the entrepreneur gets recommended to the investor, or group of investors. It’s an introduction. In some cases it’s a door opener. And it can seem like the connection leads to investment that might not have happened otherwise. The startup […]
Tim Berry
Tim Berry , Founder and CEO , Palo Alto Software
28 May 2013
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5 Ways to Make Your Startup a Choice Investment

People with money to invest have choices. How do you as an entrepreneur with a new idea get to be one of those choices? Initially, you may be able to rely on friends and family to put you on the top of their list, but eventually you will probably need real professional investors (Angels and […]
Martin Zwilling
Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals
26 May 2013
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