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How Bill Gates Was A Role Model For New Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

In retrospect, however, Bill Gates did a lot of things right as a startup that I still look for today in aspiring entrepreneurs and their companies: Build a strong team. Enlist community of support. In my opinion, Bill Gates would have failed without his partners Steve Ballmer, and Paul Allen.

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5 Keys to Moving From Entrepreneur Thinking To Action

Startup Professionals Musings

As a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, I’m always surprised by the fact that some never seem to be able to that first startup going, while many others never seem to stop, starting their second or third initiative before the first one is fully hatched. I’m now convinced that serious entrepreneurs relish the startup process more than success.

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5 Crowdfunding Approaches To Tempt Every Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

Even if you ignore all the hype around crowdfunding, there can be no doubt that it is a real alternative for entrepreneurs to achieve visibility and funding today. are not for crowdfunding, but actually are matchmaking sites between entrepreneurs and professional investors or banks, or incubators. Marty Zwilling.

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How To Reinvent Yourself As A Business Startup Today

Startup Professionals Musings

Thus smart business professionals are rapidly becoming the new entrepreneurs. Of course, entrepreneurs delivering services have existed for some time, including business consultant, independent contractor, and freelancer titles. For existing trained professionals, it’s an opportunity to become an entrepreneur.

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10 Attributes That Make You An Entrepreneur To Follow

Startup Professionals Musings

Every new entrepreneur has to initiate the right actions to be perceived as a leader in their chosen business domain by their team and by their customers, or the road to success and satisfaction will be lost along the way. No entrepreneur can build a business alone. Constantly strengthening your network of relationships.

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Thoughts on Sourcing Black Companies and Entrepreneurs

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The entrepreneur responded with a long explanation that was a brilliant and extremely helpful perspective for me. Come from communities that have an infrastructure that supports robust SAT prep. Have had our communities and families decimated through mass incarceration and other racist policies. It follows.

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10 Keys To Raising Your New Venture Funding Potential

Startup Professionals Musings

In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.” For startups, the entrepreneur and founder is almost always the face of the company. I have paraphrased his key points here as follows: Leader personal impact. Leadership brand development.