Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. Successful entrepreneurs and successful companies never stop re-inventing themselves. business Dave Power entrepreneur s-curve startup' Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. Successful entrepreneurs and successful companies never stop re-inventing themselves. This S-Curve, with no correction, can quickly lead to disaster.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

According to Peterson’s Ultimate Home Office Survival Guide, most entrepreneurs who work from home start with less than $5,000. If you’re reading this checklist and still wondering whether or not you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur, take the Bplans quiz, Are You Entrepreneur Material? Start doing guerilla marketing.

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

They offered employees referral bonuses, posted on job boards and committed themselves to so-called "guerilla recruiting." Even if you dont have a huge network of people to advertise your meetups with, you can always try becoming an official Meetup group to get the word out. 500|5000 The 2010 Inc. 500|5000 List The 2010 Top Lists Inc.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 6, 2020

I know first hand how frustrating it can be for entrepreneurs who believe in their startup so strongly but are struggling to get the traction they need. Once we started looking around for advertisement opportunities we quickly realized the timeliness of a show, airing in Canada for the first time (remember Zepeel is launched in Toronto).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2018

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. Successful entrepreneurs and successful companies never stop re-inventing themselves. This S-Curve, with no correction, can quickly lead to disaster.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. Successful entrepreneurs and successful companies never stop re-inventing themselves. This S-Curve, with no correction, can quickly lead to disaster.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

How a small business used a guerilla tactic to build buzz and drive traffic. Many businesses have produced videos or other owrk and invited their own audiences to to participate by creating their own content on a given topic or subject. Let a fizzy competition for UGC begin! Patience, Grasshopper.

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BeyondVC

JUNE 2, 2004

Companies like Yahoo, Google, Amazon, and EBay have become big enough to build a business around-they have an ecosystem-they are the gorillas of the web and entrepreneurs can launch products around them. We are not throwing money away on stupid advertising campaigns. Well, many early entrepreneurs did fail.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JULY 19, 2012

Guerilla Innovation Chapter Three. This is where many wanna be innovators, and wanna be entrepreneurs simply give up. It evolved from the work of the man who coined the term brainstorming, advertising maven, Alex Osborn. Small Biz Creative Problem Solving. Small business innovation is simply this: one problem after another.

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BeyondVC

JUNE 2, 2004

Companies like Yahoo, Google, Amazon, and EBay have become big enough to build a business around-they have an ecosystem-they are the gorillas of the web and entrepreneurs can launch products around them. We are not throwing money away on stupid advertising campaigns. Well, many early entrepreneurs did fail.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 5, 2014

This is also a good time to think about what it takes to be an entrepreneur. Make those tweaks before fully entering the market – and understand that, for most entrepreneurs, this is a process, not a single final product. There’s a reason companies like Coca-Cola never stop advertising. Believe me, this is a valid question.

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Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2016

Resources to help you do market research and determine your niche: Practical Market Research Resources for Entrepreneurs. How do you want your customers to feel when they visit your website, view your advertising, or use your services? Plenty of your focus should go into social media marketing and more “guerilla marketing” tactics. “I

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 28, 2022

So, that’s why we are excited about 2023 because there will be more and more entrepreneurs and businesses. Here’s the pivot other entrepreneurs are making next year: #1- Release more studies. social media advertising. 26- Social media advertising. Entrepreneurs, what pivot are you making in your business next year?

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Business coach and entrepreneur Scott Hallman (more on him below) shares his own cautionary tale in an interview with Mindvalley Insights: We began to lose money. He started his journey as an entrepreneur by running a few small businesses while he was still attending university. 1) Brad Sugars. Image courtesy of ActionCoach.

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Early Growth Financial Services

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Originally published in Business on Main Everybody talks about online advertising—but traditional marketing still makes it into most company budgets. The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only nonprofit organization composed of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Business coach and entrepreneur Scott Hallman (more on him below) shares his own cautionary tale in an interview with Mindvalley Insights: We began to lose money. He started his journey as an entrepreneur by running a few small businesses while he was still attending university. 1) Brad Sugars. Image courtesy of ActionCoach.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

I’ve seen a range of options for supporting entrepreneurs, which I can rank from least to most involvement in companies by investors: financier VCs, e.g., Correlation Ventures. Most firms that do decide to take equity do so because their risk is far reduced when compared to that of the entrepreneur, or that of the traditional cash investor.

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