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Leadership Lessons For Entrepreneurs
By Martin at March 8, 2013 | 8:25 am | 0 Comment
Most successful entrepreneurs will tell you that their primary motivation is to “change the world” and to build something lasting, not to make a lot of money. But the conventional wisdom is that employees work for money, above all else. Yet my own experience, and a relevant McKinsey survey, leads me to believe that non-cash motivators may be more effective in the long more...
Tips For Entrepreneurs: To Become Successful & Satisfied In Their Start up Life
By Martin at February 22, 2013 | 10:21 am | 0 Comment
It’s sad when the startup is “successful,” but the founder still feels totally unsatisfied. I see it happening all the time. The business is a winner, but the family or other relationships are broken by the stress. Or the entrepreneur started down this path to be their own boss and change the world, but find they are now answering to many more people, with nothing more...
Why Entrepreneurs Need To Brand Themselves
By Martin at February 21, 2013 | 8:41 am | 0 Comment
Why Entrepreneurs Need To Brand Themselves The days are gone when a techie or a genius could build things in his garage and customers would find and buy the product, based purely on the “wow factor” of the technology. New technologies are everywhere today. People have seen so much that they are blasé, or actually fear pure technology. They want a personable more...
How Entrepreneurs Should Hire Employee For Their Company?
By Martin at February 18, 2013 | 8:38 am | 0 Comment
Every startup lucky enough to get some traction gets to the point where they decide to hire some “regular employees” for sales, marketing, and administrative tasks. Then they are surprised to see productivity and creativity take a big dip. What they should be doing is hiring only “entrepreneurs,” meaning people who think and act as if this is their own more...
Ten R’s Of Motivation For Entrepreneurs
By Martin at February 16, 2013 | 8:56 am | 0 Comment
One of the keys to maximizing the productivity of your team, as well as yourself, is motivation. It has been estimated that the average team member at any given time works at less than 50% of his capacity. Thus mastering the art of employee motivation could double your chances of success over the average competitor. While there are many books written on this subject, more...
160th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Joint Session with Startup Weekend
By Guest Post at February 9, 2013 | 9:07 am | 0 Comment
160th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Joint Session with Startup Weekend Today’s roundtable was a joint session with Startup Weekend, Jacksonville, so we got a great glimpse of Florida entrepreneurs. Whata.tv First up, Jose Fermin from Jacksonville, Florida, pitched Whata.tv. Joe is Venezuelan, and misses television content from his country. His research more...
How To Raise Seed Money For Your Startup Company?
By Martin at February 4, 2013 | 8:22 am | 0 Comment
Most entrepreneurs have learned that it’s almost always quicker and easier to get cash from someone you know, rather than Angel investors or professional investors (VCs). In fact, most investors “require” that you already have some investment from friends and family before they will even step up to the plate. You see, investors invest in people, before they more...
159th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Return On Investment
By Guest Post at February 2, 2013 | 9:00 am | 0 Comment
159th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Return On Investment Today’s roundtable, as usual, had a wonderful international flavor, with entrepreneurs from all corners of the globe represented. In particular, we had presenters and attendees from Italy, Chile, Brazil, India, Canada, and various parts of the US. I am particularly pleased to see the rise of Latin more...
Why do most startups fail?
By Martin at January 30, 2013 | 8:35 am | 0 Comment
When I heard a friend make the statement “Your startup can’t fail if you don’t quit,” I realized that every entrepreneur should adopt it as their mantra. Pivoting or dealing a new hand is not quitting. If we all repeat this mantra, perhaps we can improve the statistic that over half of new startups fail within five years. Nothing is more discouraging to future more...
158th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Meet The One Million Club
By Guest Post at January 26, 2013 | 10:02 am | 0 Comment
158th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Meet The One Million Club Today’s roundtable started with us introducing the audience to The Million Dollar Club, the 1M/1M premium members who have crossed the $1M mark. We love to introduce you to more and more of them as role models, with the accompanying message that you can do it too. Virtual Freedom As for the more...
157th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Winners Of The Second New Year Challenge 2013 Final
By Guest Post at January 19, 2013 | 8:49 am | 0 Comment
157th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Winners Of The Second New Year Challenge 2013 Final The second final of the 1M/1M New Year Challenge 2013 was held today during our 157th roundtable. The contest was judged by two successful 1M/1M premium members. Each has been in the program for two years and has traveled the zero to $1M journey and beyond, successfully. more...
Why Entrepreneurs Need To Follow-Up Their Ideas Closely?
By Martin at January 17, 2013 | 8:46 am | 0 Comment
When someone introduces me to an “idea person,” I automatically jump to the down-side conclusion that this person doesn’t do follow-up. Of course there are people who are great at getting things done, but haven’t had an original idea in their life. Great entrepreneurs, like Bill Gates, are great at both. I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with more...
156th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Winners of the New Year Challenge 2013 First Final
By Guest Post at January 11, 2013 | 8:43 am | 0 Comment
156th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Winners of the New Year Challenge 2013 First Final The first final of the 1M/1M New Year Challenge 2013 was held today during our 156th roundtable. The finalists were selected by audience voting. The contest was judged by two 1M/1M premium members, beside myself. Let me first introduce you to the two judges. Based in more...
155th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Last Few Hours To Vote For 1M/1M New Year Challenge 2013
By Guest Post at January 4, 2013 | 8:33 am | 0 Comment
155th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Last Few Hours To Vote For 1M/1M New Year Challenge 2013 The voting phase of the 1M/1M New Year Challenge is coming to a close at midnight on January 3 and several promising entrepreneurs are emerging as the frontrunners. Everyone is now able to view the entries here (according to their ranks) and the 20 finalists will be more...
Six Good Habits For Entrepreneurs
By Martin at December 24, 2012 | 8:53 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 recommendations. These two more...
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Creating and Managing Breakthrough Innovation
By Martin at December 21, 2012 | 8:42 am | 0 Comment
I see more and more entrepreneurs who seem to have everything going for them – vision, motivation, passion, even a good business plan, product, and money, and yet they can’t close customers. Maybe it’s time to look harder at the mantra of a new breed of gurus and successful entrepreneurs, including Steve Blank and Eric Ries, called “nail it then scale it” more...
154th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Year Challenge Voting Round Begins
By Guest Post at December 21, 2012 | 8:21 am | 0 Comment
154th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Year Challenge Voting Round Begins Today we hosted the last free public 1M/1M roundtable for 2012. In a characteristically international session, we had three presenters from Israel, one from India, as well as entrepreneurs from Chile and Malaysia. Webbing First Avraham Orbach, from Jerusalem, Israel, pitched more...
Relationships Tips For Entrepreneurs
By Martin at December 12, 2012 | 12:33 pm | 0 Comment
Just because you are an entrepreneur, or work in a startup, you can’t ignore the rules of building and maintaining relationships. Many despise these experiences in corporate environments, and leave for a startup, only to find that they have to be able to navigate a similar minefield there of workplace and business relationships to be successful. Jan Yager, Ph.D., an more...
151st 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Year Challenge 2013
By Guest Post at December 7, 2012 | 8:17 am | 0 Comment
151st 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Year Challenge 2013 After the 150th roundtable celebration last week, we’re back to regular business! During this week’s roundtable, we had five entrepreneurs pitch. Before I talk about them, I’d like to encourage all entrepreneurs who want to apply for the 1M/1M New Year Challenge to submit completed more...
Top Ten Types Of Pivots To Consider For Entrepreneurs
By Martin at December 4, 2012 | 8:15 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 more...
