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Smart Business Networking Tips For Entrepreneurs
By Martin at June 28, 2012 | 8:46 am | 0 Comment
Smart Business Networking Tips For Entrepreneurs I often recommend business networking as the most effective way for a startup founder to find investors, advisors, and even key executive candidates. But what if you are an introvert, or new to this game, and don’t know where or how to start? I have learned over the years that there is an etiquette to this process, more...
132nd 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight On Colorado
By Guest Post at June 23, 2012 | 8:35 am | 0 Comment
132nd 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight On Colorado During today’s roundtable, we turned the spotlight on Colorado and got a very nice view into what’s happening in that region. Co-hosting the roundtable with us was Innovation Pavilion in Denver, Colorado. Innovation Pavilion focuses on creating an eco-system for ideas and entrepreneurs to come more...
130th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Winners Of The A&N Media-Elance Contest With Imperial College, London
By Guest Post at June 15, 2012 | 10:34 am | 0 Comment
130th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Winners Of The A&N Media-Elance Contest With Imperial College, London We co-hosted today’s roundtable with Imperial College, London and held a contest. We awarded four scholarships. Today’s judges were Dominique Trempont, Board Member, DMGT (parent company of A&N Media); Rich Pearson, Chief Marketing Officer of Elance; more...
Should We Leave Our Day Job To Run A New Startup?
By Martin at June 12, 2012 | 10:38 am | 0 Comment
Should We Leave Our Day Job To Run A New Startup? Many entrepreneurs I know feel guilty about not quitting their day job when initiating their startup, worrying about not giving their all to an employer, juggling the multiple roles, or even a legal conflict of interest. I’ll try to offer some guidelines to address these issues, but I generally recommend you keep the more...
129th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Winners Of Second BlueSnap-Elance Finals
By Guest Post at June 9, 2012 | 9:39 am | 0 Comment
129th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Winners Of Second BlueSnap-Elance Finals During today’s roundtable, we held the second finals for the BlueSnap-Elance contest. Family Rx Tracker First, Stephanie Mountain from Leawood, Kansas, pitched Family Rx Tracker, an online service and mobile app for reminding caregivers about the administering times of elderly more...
128th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Winners Of First BlueSnap-Elance Finals
By Guest Post at June 7, 2012 | 8:28 am | 0 Comment
128th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Winners Of First BlueSnap-Elance Finals During today’s roundtable, we had the first of two finals for the BlueSnap-Elance contest that has been running for the past month or so. Winners will be receiving 1M/1M scholarships for one year. TravelGenie First, Swarna Ellison from New Jersey pitched TravelGenie, a deal site more...
How To Build A Successful Startup Company
By Martin at June 5, 2012 | 10:41 am | 0 Comment
Business success begins in the mind of the startup founder and his team. A winning startup is a team of entrepreneurs who build and run the business as an extension of who they are, rather than some extrapolation of the Google or Facebook model. It’s not so easy to fake the important attributes when the going gets rough. So before you risk it all by jumping into a more...
How To Recognize That Your Startup Is Going Wrong Way
By Martin at June 4, 2012 | 8:15 am | 0 Comment
Most entrepreneurs start their company with the highest of ideals, and wouldn’t dream of building one with a culture of indifference or downright unethical behavior. Yet all too many succumb to the pressures of survival, driven by demanding investors in a cutthroat competitive environment. How does a Founder recognize the warning signs, let alone know what to do about more...
1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Go, Kolkata!
By Guest Post at June 2, 2012 | 8:54 am | 0 Comment
1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Go, Kolkata! During today’s roundtable, we saw an unprecedented number of entrepreneurs from Kolkata, which thrills me to bits because I am from Kolkata, and nothing would please me more than to see an entrepreneurial ground swell happening in that city. Project Site Tracker First, however, Eric Gan from Malaysia pitched more...
Why Entrepreneurs Need to Recognize Their Own Strengths & Limitations?
By Martin at May 23, 2012 | 8:22 am | 0 Comment
If you are going to be a real entrepreneur, it’s important that you know yourself well. After all, you won’t have a direct manager charged with giving you feedback, and your team probably will be afraid to tell you what they really think. Entrepreneurs need to recognize their own strengths and limitations. In any case, your skills, talent, knowledge, personality, more...
Why Failure is Good For Entrepreneurs?
By Martin at May 11, 2012 | 8:55 am | 0 Comment
If you haven’t had a failure, you aren’t pushing the limits. If you are really an entrepreneur, you are a risk taker and less cautious by nature, so failures should be expected. Wear you startup failure as a badge of courage. Don’t go after failure, but embrace it when it does happen and grow from it. People who are afraid of failing should not become more...
Why Entrepreneurs Should Learn To Say No?
By Martin at May 10, 2012 | 8:24 am | 0 Comment
Entrepreneurs have to know when and how to say ‘no,’ and be good at delivering the message. All startup leaders are besieged with requests for their time, attention, talent, money, or influence, and sometimes even good requests won’t fit into the time and energy you have available. Startups require focus, so you need to say ‘no’ to some things, in order to do more...
Entrepreneurs Need Both Inspiration & Perspiration For Success Of Their Startups
By Martin at April 30, 2012 | 8:13 am | 0 Comment
Entrepreneurs Need Both Inspiration and Perspiration For Success Of Their Startups I’m fully convinced that both inspiration and perspiration are always required in a startup. Yet many people seem to be stuck on one end or other of this equation – all perspiration with no dream, or all inspiration with no reality. Success is the right balance of both for fun and more...
1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs
By Guest Post at April 27, 2012 | 8:59 am | 0 Comment
1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: A Rare Women-Only Session Today’s roundtable was a women-only affair, with WITI (Women In Technology International) San Diego entrepreneurs leading the way. But before we dive into the pitches, let me point you to the opportunity with BlueSnap and Elance, which are awarding 12 1M/1M scholarships to digital commerce and more...
Why Entrepreneurs Need To Listen Their Customers Carefully?
By Martin at April 25, 2012 | 10:36 am | 0 Comment
Why Entrepreneurs Need To Listen Their Customers Carefully? It seems like many business people are becoming so technology addicted to their iPhones and email that they forget to listen to what their customers want, or even forget to ask. Attention spans have compressed to seconds, and face-to-face conversations, with the hugely important body language, are avoided more...
Few Angel Investors That Entrepreneurs Should Avoid
By Martin at April 23, 2012 | 8:20 am | 0 Comment
A few angel investors have slipped or fallen from their lofty perch, so entrepreneurs must take great care to validate the character and reputation of every prospective investor. The entrepreneur’s tendency to be in a huge hurry to obtain the funding can end up being disastrous, and play into the hands of these less scrupulous investors. Many entrepreneurs more...
1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Tyranny Of The TAM
By Guest Post at April 21, 2012 | 8:34 am | 0 Comment
1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Tyranny Of The TAM During today’s roundtable, I found myself discussing Total Available Market (TAM) issues with three of the five presenters. So let me start off by providing some guidance on the topic for all of them as well as others who are facing similar challenges. Folks, there can be no financing without a thorough more...
Why Open Leadership Is Important For Today’s Entrepreneurs?
By Martin at April 18, 2012 | 8:49 am | 0 Comment
The emergence of social networking and the Internet has caused a new focus and value on “openness,” which leads to a new element of leadership, called “Open Leadership.” The mantra of open leadership is “Be Open, Be Transparent, and Be Authentic.” This is counter to the traditional business premise of “control,” so many companies are still pushing more...
Why Entrepreneurs Should Follow Servant Leadership To Grow Their Startup?
By Martin at April 16, 2012 | 8:17 am | 0 Comment
Startups provide leadership in the market. Entrepreneurs provide leadership to their startup. There are many styles of leadership, like dictatorial, laissez-faire, and democratic. One that I hear discussed more these days, in this age of relationships, is called “servant” leadership. What is servant leadership? The servant leader serves the people they lead through more...
Key Skills That Every Entrepreneurs Need To Develop
By Martin at April 13, 2012 | 11:13 am | 0 Comment
Entrepreneurs seem more quickly frustrated these days when their “million-dollar idea” doesn’t turn into a sustainable business overnight. They don’t realize that it takes many skills to build a business under the best of circumstances, and today’s world of instant gratification doesn’t leave room for the patience and practice to develop these more...
