entrepreneurs
Are Business Schools Setting Up Entrepreneurs To Fail?
By Guest Post at November 18, 2011 | 8:31 am | 0 Comment
105th 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable for Entrepreneurs: Business Schools And Early Stage Entrepreneurship I have written about this before on my Forbes column, but want to raise the question again: Are Business Schools Setting Up Entrepreneurs To Fail? The question has, over time, resulted in huge discussions, some defensive, some self-aware and some even solution more...
Six Techniques Of Success From Compound Effect For Entrepreneurs
By Martin at October 29, 2011 | 9:55 am | 0 Comment
Most of the entrepreneurs I know realize they have some bad habits, like maybe procrastination or not listening well, so they focus on dropping these. New studies indicate that a more productive approach would be adopting new good habits and behaviors that clearly move your business forward, like good time management and implementing customer more...
Creative Problem Solving Tools For Entrepreneurs
By ajay at October 27, 2011 | 12:37 pm | 0 Comment
Here are few Creative Problem Solving Tools For Entrepreneurs. 1. Simplex Process is a creative tool for entrepreneurs.It's step-by-step tool helps you identify and solve problems creatively and effectively. It guides you through each stage of the problem-solving process, from finding the problem to implementing a solution. This helps you ensure that your more...
100th 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs
By Guest Post at October 7, 2011 | 8:17 am | 0 Comment
100th 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Dedicated To Steve Jobs, Reinforcing Mission To Restructure Capitalism "Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes ... the ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree more...
Why Every Entrepreneurs Should Apply Zigzag Principle To Get Success?
By Martin at October 6, 2011 | 10:02 am | 0 Comment
It would be no fun if starting a business was simply plotting a straight line between your idea and success, with no challenges along the way. Zigging and zagging amongst the obstacles is the fun part of being an entrepreneur, and it’s what sets you apart from the average worker who knows exactly what he or she has to do every day to get paid. Relish it, or if it scares more...
Why Linear Thinking Is Not Good Thing For Entrepreneurs?
By Martin at October 4, 2011 | 8:37 am | 0 Comment
Why Linear Thinking Is Not Good Thing For Entrepreneurs? It’s time for more entrepreneurs to reset their focus, and shift their thinking to completely different ways of doing things. Everyone talks about innovation, but the majority of business plans I see still reflect linear thinking – one more social network with improved usability, one more wind-farm energy more...
What is your Startup Company’s Valuation?
By Martin at October 1, 2011 | 9:41 am | 0 Comment
Once you have a potential investor excited about your team, your product, and your company, the investor will inevitably ask “What is your Startup company’s valuation?” Many entrepreneurs stumble at this point, losing the deal or most of their ownership, by having no answer, saying “make me an offer,” or quoting an exorbitant number. I’ve written about more...
1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: From California to Canada
By Guest Post at September 30, 2011 | 8:27 am | 0 Comment
1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: From California to Canada During this week’s roundtable, once again, we had an international group of entrepreneurs presenting from Buenos Aires, Argentina; Warsaw, Poland; Geneva, Switzerland; Sherbrooke, Canada; Oakland, California; and Austin, Texas. In addition, we had attendees from many other parts of the world. more...
Key Leadership Qualities For Entrepreneurial Success
By Martin at September 22, 2011 | 10:02 am | 0 Comment
Many entrepreneurs forget that their success is more about helping other people than about personally becoming famous, or overcoming the odds and getting rich. A successful business has to satisfy customers with a strong team, by helping them solve problems, save money, or experience more pleasure. That means more focus on helping others achieve their goals. How and more...
Top Most Ways Entrepreneurs Pivot a Lean Startup
By Martin at September 17, 2011 | 9:40 am | 0 Comment
The popular view of a real entrepreneur is someone with a big vision, and a stubborn determination to charge straight ahead through any obstacle and make it happen. The vision part is fine, but successful entrepreneurs have found that the extreme uncertainty of a new product or service usually requires many course corrections, or “pivots” to find a successful formula. more...
How entrepreneurs should bridge several market chasms?
By Martin at September 14, 2011 | 10:47 am | 0 Comment
Everyone in the business world has heard of the book by Geoffrey A. Moore titled “Crossing the Chasm” (1991), but most entrepreneurs have no idea how it relates to them. In fact, it’s all about the “focus” required to get early stage technology products across the deadly chasm from early adopters to mainstream customers. Most investors and startup more...
Why good relationship is important for entrepreneurs?
By Martin at September 13, 2011 | 10:27 am | 0 Comment
Investors invest in people, not ideas. Customers buy from people, not companies. Employees rally for a great leader. As an entrepreneur, you need relationships to succeed. That means relationships with team members, investors, customers, and vendors. One of the best ways to build a good relationship with anyone is to make them feel important. One of my favorite authors, more...
How to be part of the solution, rather than part of the problem?
By Martin at September 12, 2011 | 8:15 am | 0 Comment
How to be part of the solution, rather than part of the problem? With the tenth anniversary of 9/11 upon us, and the recent financial woes, there seems to be a growing population out there worried about all the people and companies watching to hurt them. Why is everyone so paranoid these days? My plea to entrepreneurs is to recognize it as an opportunity, and go the more...
How To: Get Prepared Before Approaching Investors
By Martin at September 10, 2011 | 10:25 am | 0 Comment
Don’t charge the hill until you are “ready.” This probably seems obvious to military types, but I see entrepreneurs violating this rule all the time. They approach key potential investors way too early, trying to talk their way up the hill, with no supporting business plan, and before they have a support team around them. Needless to say, they usually get shot down, more...
Learning tips for entrepreneurs
By Martin at September 9, 2011 | 11:27 am | 0 Comment
Over the years, I’ve had the privilege of working with some of the best entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and elsewhere. On the average, the entrepreneurs I know are struggling. But one thing they all seem to have in common is a love for learning and change. They rush in with a passion to better the world, and money is just an indication of their progress. The more...
Laws of Likability For Entrepreneurs
By Martin at September 2, 2011 | 8:16 am | 0 Comment
You don’t have to be likeable to everyone to be a great entrepreneur, just to the people who count. Of course, we can all point to apparent exceptions, like Ted Turner or Larry Ellison, who are sometimes seen as lions, downright predators, or even jerks. Yet I’m told that even these guys are considered quite likable by an intimate group of business and personal more...
Why entrepreneurs should avoid stealth mode startup concept?
By Martin at September 1, 2011 | 8:59 am | 0 Comment
Every time I hear about a new startup that is in stealth mode, I wonder what problem they are hiding from whom. Of course they pretend that they are trying to avoid alerting competitors prior to launch, but too often it becomes an excuse to move slowly in a world that’s all about getting to market fast. I believe stealth makes sense for large companies who can be more...
Million Dollar Idea For Startups
By Martin at August 31, 2011 | 9:27 am | 0 Comment
A popular approach for aspiring entrepreneurs these days seems to be to corner anyone who will listen, with a pitch on their current “million dollar idea.” The initial monologue usually ends with the question “How much money do you think this is worth?” In my humble opinion, ideas are a commodity, and are really not worth much, outside the context of a more...
Web3.0: Is it good or bad for entrepreneurs?
By Martin at August 23, 2011 | 1:15 pm | 0 Comment
For some reason, I haven’t heard much about the next generation of the Internet (Web 3.0) lately, which probably means it isn’t happening as fast as everyone predicted. It’s already a couple of years behind schedule from my perspective. I suspect the real challenge is not the semantic web technology, but new attractive business models from smart more...
Every entrepreneurs should remember few things when starting a business
By Martin at August 18, 2011 | 10:16 am | 0 Comment
If you expect to succeed in the thrill-a-minute, roller coaster ride of a startup, let me assure you it takes more than a good idea, a rich uncle, and luck. In fact, the idea is often the least important part of the equation. Investors tell me that they look at the people first, the business plan second, and only then at the idea. If you want some tips to beat the more...
