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Why You Should Be An Entrepreneur?
By Guest Post at February 10, 2013 | 12:03 am | 0 Comment
Why You Should Be An Entrepreneur Becoming an entrepreneur usually means starting a new business. This can be a simple, solo project involving the yourself full- or part-time; or it can be a major enterprise which employs many people. Paul Reynolds of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor states that “half of all working men in the United States probably have a more...
What To Do In College Before Becoming An Entrepreneur?
By Martin at January 22, 2013 | 8:44 am | 0 Comment
Many believe that entrepreneurs are born, not made. While I agree that successful company builders usually have a natural inclination to be entrepreneurs, a good education helps polish that apple. There are people who are natural musicians, but that doesn't mean we don't try to teach them music. Of course, there's no law saying you have to go to college to start a more...
10 Fabulous Qualities That Every Entrepreneur Should Have
By Martin at December 15, 2012 | 9:02 am | 0 Comment
To be successful as an entrepreneur, you don’t have to be a fabulous person, but it helps. Some people, and some entrepreneurs, have that something extra, like Simon Cowell is searching for on the X-Factor, that you can’t quite put your finger on. But the entrepreneurs that have “it” seem to be able to effortlessly get team members, investors, and customers to more...
Five Key Ingredients Of Happiness For Entrepreneur
By Martin at November 8, 2012 | 8:38 am | 0 Comment
Building a startup is hard work for low pay, it’s risky, and it requires total responsibility to make it work. Yet, many entrepreneurs are the happiest people I know. On the other hand, I know many unhappy individuals who are always partying, have minimal commitments, and little responsibility. I suspect the real parameters of happiness have eluded these more...
How Does An Entrepreneur Best Deal With Cultural Shifts?
By Martin at September 27, 2012 | 8:42 am | 0 Comment
I’m a very logical guy, so I still fondly remember when new solutions and technologies started trends on the basis of their logical strengths. In today’s world, it seems that emotion, not logic, sparks the new trends that become culture, and drives our devotion or disappointment in new products and brands. How does an entrepreneur best deal with that more...
The Power of Self-Discipline For Entrepreneur
By Martin at September 24, 2012 | 8:13 am | 0 Comment
Creating a startup, or managing any business, is all about problem solving. Some people are good at it and some are not – independent of their IQ or their book smarts (there may even be an inverse relationship here). Yet I’m convinced that problem solving is a learnable trait, rather than just a birthright. Entrepreneurs who are great problem solvers within any more...
Basic Skills Required To Be An Entrepreneur
By Martin at July 21, 2012 | 9:25 am | 0 Comment
Basic Skills Required To Be An Entrepreneur The ultimate compliment that any entrepreneur can get is that they can “see around corners.” This is a statement that they are willing and able (and successful) at projecting market and technology turns, not just straight-line innovations. They have the courage to make bold decisions, often contrary to conventional market more...
5 Great Startup Ideas That Every Entrepreneur Should Try
By Martin at July 16, 2012 | 8:21 am | 0 Comment
Potential startup founders are always looking for ideas to implement, when they should be looking for problems to solve. Customers pay for solutions, but there is no market for ideas. I’m often approached by people with a “million dollar idea,” but I haven’t seen anyone pay that for one yet. Equally often, I see startups who are on the road to implementing an more...
Why Every Entrepreneur Need To Learn Problem Solving Skill?
By Martin at May 5, 2012 | 9:27 am | 0 Comment
If you can’t solve problems and enjoy it, you won’t make it as an entrepreneur. By definition, an entrepreneur is the first to undertake a given business, and firsts never happen without problems and people frustrations. The toughest problems are people problems, like personnel issues, but there are tough operational problems as well, such as vendor delays. The more...
Do Your Homework First If You Want To Become An Entrepreneur
By Martin at March 1, 2012 | 8:25 am | 0 Comment
Many people, especially those who have spent years struggling up the corporate ladder, dream of jumping ship and becoming an entrepreneur. But every job move is fraught with risk, and the move from employee to entrepreneur is on the high end of the risk curve. This is a big jump, especially in an unstable economy, so do your homework first on this one. According to more...
What’s Wrong With Your Startup? Find Through “Go-People”
By Martin at December 27, 2011 | 8:46 am | 0 Comment
Go-to people get things done. As an entrepreneur, you need these people, and you need to be one, if you expect your startup to be successful. That may be easier said than done, since resumes do not tell the story, and without real nurturing, they won’t stay around long. To highlight how rare this breed is, Jeffrey Gandz of the Richard Ivey School of Business relates more...
Five Successful Elevator Pitchs For Startup Company
By ajay at November 15, 2011 | 11:26 am | 0 Comment
An elevator pitch is often used by an entrepreneur pitching an idea to a venture capitalist or angel investor to receive funding. Venture capitalists often judge the quality of an idea by the quality of its elevator pitch and will ask entrepreneurs for their elevator pitches in order to quickly weed out bad ideas and weak teams. So if you are are an entrepreneur more...
Why Entrepreneurs Needs To Develop X-Factor?
By Martin at October 22, 2011 | 9:13 am | 0 Comment
To be successful as an entrepreneur, you don’t have to be a fabulous person, but it helps. Some people, and some entrepreneurs, have that something extra, like Simon Cowell is searching for on the X-Factor, that you can’t quite put your finger on. But the entrepreneurs that have “it” seem to be able to effortlessly get team members, investors, and customers to more...
Portfolio DashBoard For Entrepreneurs & Angel Investors: To Track Performance of Early-Stage Companies
By VisionwizTeam at October 13, 2011 | 11:14 am | 0 Comment
PortfolioDashboards aims to track the performance of early-stage companies and provides the results to investors and other stakeholders. How? It would provide you standardized and aggregated performance data and reporting through a simple and customizable dashboard. PortfolioDashboards would also simplify the reporting process for the entrepreneur, providing more...
10 Reasons which you should not use to become an Entrepreneur
By Martin at October 8, 2011 | 9:18 am | 0 Comment
10 Reasons which you should not use to become an Entrepreneur Every entrepreneur needs to be honest about their strengths and weaknesses, and realistic about their reasons for choosing the startup route. For any entrepreneur, even the best business opportunities, if entered for the wrong reasons, will likely fail. Some of these reasons seem obvious, so forgive me more...
Working on Software Startup Company? Need Investors? Try PitchBig
By VisionwizTeam at September 29, 2011 | 2:22 pm | 0 Comment
Working on software company? Need Investors? Here is a new site(PitchBig) that you can check out to get quick funding. PitchBIG aims to help out software entrepreneurs. It's an exclusive networking community for software entrepreneurs that provides entrepreneurs with the ability to connect with investors. PitchBig is not region specific site. It aims to reach more...
Making of a Successful Entrepreneur
By Martin at September 24, 2011 | 9:47 am | 0 Comment
We can all dream about what it takes to make our startup a success. From recent survey feedback, it seems evident that the urban legends leading to success are wrong. The average entrepreneur is not the one who dumped a promising career, sketched his idea on the back of a napkin, and accepted millions from an investor to make billions of his own. I was just perusing a more...
Startups:Think twice before speaking about your competitors
By Martin at September 3, 2011 | 9:20 am | 0 Comment
Every entrepreneur should spend plenty of time thinking about competitors, and how they relate to your business, but you need to be very careful what you say out loud about them to your team, your investors, and your customers. What you say speaks volumes about how you think about your startup, how smart you are, and your personal integrity. I’ve spent hours talking more...
Why Good Content Is Most Important Thing For Your Startups?
By Martin at August 16, 2011 | 8:50 am | 0 Comment
These days every new entrepreneur understands that an innovative product or service is necessary, but not sufficient, to start a business. You have to build a web presence with marketing content to get visibility above the 50 million other new websites created every year, and attract the customers you need. But most entrepreneurs don’t know where to start. Of more...
Find out: if you’re a wanna be entrepreneur or real entrepreneur
By Martin at May 23, 2011 | 4:07 pm | 0 Comment
If I had a dollar for every time someone has said to me, “One of these days, I’m going to start my own company,” I’d be rich. If this day ever comes for all these people, we will be overrun by startups. Yet I don’t lose any sleep over either of these possibilities. Most people procrastinate from time to time, but I suspect that the challenge here is more...
