entrepreneurs
How Do Entrepreneurs Train To Lead The Anywhere Revolution
By Martin at September 5, 2012 | 8:24 am | 0 Comment
Entrepreneurs are always looking for “the next big thing,” when maybe in fact it’s a lot of little things that are only recognized after the fact as components of a big evolution or revolution. In my view, the Internet “connectivity anywhere” has already spawned several of these, but the global change has only begun. Emily Nagle Green, in her book from a more...
How To Deal With Negative Vibes In Your Startup Company
By Martin at August 29, 2012 | 10:56 am | 0 Comment
Entrepreneurs need to listen to constructive criticism, but ignore negative vibes and complainers at all costs. If you are a complainer, and you are thinking of becoming an entrepreneur, think again. The world of an entrepreneur is tough, unpredictable, and fraught with risk. Most importantly, the buck stops with you, so there is no room for excuses and more...
139th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Attention, FinTech Entrepreneurs!
By Guest Post at August 25, 2012 | 9:43 am | 0 Comment
139th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Attention, FinTech Entrepreneurs! We started today’s roundtable with a reminder that the TradeKing-1M/1M pitch fest is on as we speak, and the application deadline is September 10. The finals are scheduled for October 4 and October 11. The contest is focused on financial technology entrepreneurs, and TradeKing, an online more...
How Entrepreneurs Can Eliminate Their Own Demotivating Habits
By Martin at August 24, 2012 | 8:14 am | 0 Comment
How Entrepreneurs Can Eliminate Their Own Demotivating Habits Assuming no one would demotivate their team intentionally, then why do we see it happen so often? I believe it’s because too many entrepreneurs and leaders are so self-centered that they really don’t see what impact their actions have on others. What these leaders need to do is spend more time more...
Why Entrepreneurs Need To Be A Good Listener
By Martin at August 22, 2012 | 8:15 am | 0 Comment
Why Entrepreneurs Need To Be A Good Listener When you are not presenting to investors or your team, try to spend more time listening than talking. You can’t learn anything new while you’re talking, yet many entrepreneurs seem to never stop. It’s a sad spiral, since the more you talk, the less people really hear, meaning they don’t learn anything either. If more...
Why Entrepreneurs Should Target Hyperlocal Startups Before Going Global
By Martin at August 17, 2012 | 8:11 am | 0 Comment
Why Entrepreneurs Should Target Hyperlocal Services Before Going Global Even though the world is getting smaller, due to easy global connectivity, people still feel alone if not well-connected locally. There is also more going on in every location, so this personal need and super sensitivity to the local community has spawned a new breed of Internet startups, called more...
Communication Tips For Entrepreneurs
By Martin at August 16, 2012 | 8:25 am | 0 Comment
Communication Tips For Entrepreneurs Effective communication is an absolute requirement for successfully starting a business, but it doesn’t come naturally to many entrepreneurs. Communication is considered a social skill, and inventors and engineers, for example, are not known to be social butterflies. Founders have to communicate their ideas and products to more...
Great Leadership Tips For Entrepreneurs
By Martin at August 10, 2012 | 8:39 am | 0 Comment
Great Leadership Tips For Entrepreneurs Everyone recognizes a great entrepreneur when they work with one, but most entrepreneurs don’t know what to look for in themselves that will drive that perception by others. In my experience, there is no magic gene involved, just simple good habits executed consistently and convincingly until everyone around you in a startup more...
Tips For Entrepreneurs: How To Dig In & “Get Their Fingernails Dirty” In Startup
By Martin at August 6, 2012 | 8:36 am | 0 Comment
There is no substitute for diving into the key details of a new startup. Executives from large companies have sometimes long forgotten how to do this (“My people will contact your people to work out the details.”). Others hire consultants, or outsource much of the real work. These executives won’t survive long in a startup environment. An obvious reason is more...
138th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: The Free Rider Problem
By Guest Post at August 3, 2012 | 8:37 am | 0 Comment
138th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: The Free Rider Problem During today’s roundtable, we had two pitches and two discussions with 1M/1M premium members. instruMagic First, Eyal Eldar from Tel-Aviv, Israel, pitched instruMagic, an iPad app for playing songs on a guitar. Eyal is working with one of the largest sites for sheet music distribution and his game more...
137th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Date First, Don’t Rush Into A Marriage
By Guest Post at July 27, 2012 | 8:19 am | 0 Comment
137th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Date First, Don’t Rush Into A Marriage During today’s roundtable, we worked with two 1M/1M premium members, one from Israel and another from Malaysia, and a pharmaceutical entrepreneur from California. Zuznow First, Racheli Levkovich from Tel-Aviv, Israel, pitched Zuznow, a mid-tier solution for transforming more...
Why Good Ethics Is Important For Entrepreneurs?
By Martin at July 26, 2012 | 8:25 am | 0 Comment
Did you ever wonder how a new entrepreneur knows how to “do the right thing” for his business? Most experts believe that the essence of doing the right thing is ethics. Translating that into business value, a study by Wirthlin Worldwide concluded that 80% of customers still base a good portion of their buy decision on their perception of that firm’s more...
Why Entrepreneurs Need Market Data To Back Up Their Startup Company?
By Martin at July 20, 2012 | 10:21 am | 0 Comment
Most startup founders know exactly what they want to design and sell, and they are personally convinced that everyone will buy one. Yet they often fail to realize that their view is likely biased, and will be instantly discounted by potential investors. Business plans with no “industry expert” data on your target opportunity size and growth are routinely more...
Key Management Principles for Your Startup Success
By Martin at July 18, 2012 | 8:08 am | 0 Comment
Key Management Principles for Your Startup Success Entrepreneurs often have formidable technical expertise, key to developing a new product or service, but a great naïveté in management skills. They run into difficulty when their business reaches the $1-2 million annual sales range, or their employee count exceeds 5-10. It’s here that entrepreneurs must shift more...
Creative Business Mentor Network For Entrepreneurs
By VisionwizTeam at July 10, 2012 | 8:19 am | 0 Comment
Nesta, the UK’s innovation foundation, in partnership with PACT, IPA, UKIE and Skillset, today announces the launch of its Creative Business Mentor Network (CBMN), spearheaded by 30 of the creative industry’s most successful senior executives. Respected industry figures such as Patrick McKenna, CEO at Ingenious Media; Charles Wace, CEO, Twofour Group; Tim Bevan, more...
Real Problems for Entrepreneurs When Managing Their Own Startup
By Martin at July 9, 2012 | 8:05 am | 0 Comment
People who can’t manage their own lives don’t make good entrepreneurs. Small businesses require multi-tasking, work prioritization, and decision-making, with no entourage of assistants and specialists. That’s why Fortune 500 executives usually don’t survive as startup CEOs. First you have to learn to accept total responsibility for things that happen to your more...
134th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: The Challenge Of Navigating Long Sales Cycles
By Guest Post at July 6, 2012 | 8:14 am | 0 Comment
134th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: The Challenge Of Navigating Long Sales Cycles During today’s roundtable, we had five presenters discussing a wide range of businesses mostly from India. Aurviz Technology First, Chetan Vinchhi from Bangalore, India, pitched Aurviz Technology, a video solution whereby enterprises can provide video-based customer more...
4 Quick Help Tools For Entrepreneurs
By ajay at July 5, 2012 | 12:32 pm | 1 Comments
4 Quick Help Tools For Entrepreneurs 1. Thumb Thumb is a smart mobile apps that entrepreneurs can use for giving and receiving opinions in realtime.Thumb is a place where you’ll discover things and people that matter to you via an insanely engaging and instantaneous experience. 2. Dwolla Dwolla aims to help anyone with an internet connection to safely more...
Team Building Tips For A Startup
By Martin at June 29, 2012 | 8:48 am | 0 Comment
Success in a startup is not possible as a “one-man show.” An entrepreneur has to engage with team members, partners, investors, vendors, and customers. In my experience, the joy of positive engagement is sometimes the only pay you get in an early startup. Amazingly, many successful startups are built on this basis alone, with almost no money. I will talk here more...
133rd 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight On Boulder
By Guest Post at June 29, 2012 | 8:16 am | 0 Comment
133rd 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight On Boulder During today’s roundtable, we worked with five entrepreneurs in Boulder, Colorado. We saw a lot of businesses with a ‘green’ theme, as well as with themes of ‘giving’. Boulder, Colorado, it seems, is a very socially conscious community. Also, four out of the five entrepreneurs today were more...
