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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...
How To: Get Your Startup Noticed
By Martin at June 1, 2012 | 8:26 am | 0 Comment
The space for startups is more crowded than ever. First of all, it’s now international, so you have startups from every country in the world competing for your customer’s attention and their business. Then there is the Internet, delivered through every media, including your smart phone, where the volume of data spewing out is like a new Library of Congress every 15 more...
Collaboration Tips For Your Startup
By Martin at May 12, 2012 | 9:23 am | 0 Comment
Any entrepreneur with a vision can postulate a new business, but it takes a collaboration of many people to make it a success. Today the complexity of forces required for success include multi-disciplinary skills, competencies, and experiences in which the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Entrepreneurs who embrace the “lone wolf” approach usually live to more...
Seven Success Maxims That You Can Use In Your Startup
By Martin at May 2, 2012 | 8:31 am | 0 Comment
Even though I have seen many business leaders succeed, and many that failed, I still struggle with what really makes the difference. It seems like some CEOs are just more tuned in to the market realities, customer dynamics, people interactions, and are better leaders. But what does that really mean? A while back I found some great business leadership insights in “The 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...
The Progress Principle For Your Startup
By Martin at August 9, 2011 | 11:14 am | 0 Comment
Managing and motivating a team in a startup is more than just using the right interpersonal skills. It’s more than providing recognition, tangible incentives, and clear work goals. A key influencer of satisfaction and motivation, top-ranked by employees, is positive progress and the completion of meaningful work. Sometimes you have to manage progress, not more...
Key principle of decision making for your startup
By Martin at July 27, 2011 | 11:24 am | 0 Comment
Every so often a promising entrepreneur seems to freeze in the oncoming headlights and gets run over by his competition. Why is it that his idea which seemed so fundable only months ago fails to dazzle investors today? The team is the same. The company's market is the same. The only difference might be the start of another recession like the last one, resulting in a more...
What type of features you should include in your startups?
By Martin at July 7, 2011 | 12:00 pm | 0 Comment
Scope creep” (or feature creep) is an insidious disease that kills more good startups than any other, especially high-tech ones, and yet most founders (who may be the cause) never even see it happening. This term refers to the penchant to add just one more feature to the product or service before first delivery, just because you can. The instigators are all more...
Financial projections for your startup
By Martin at July 1, 2011 | 12:00 pm | 0 Comment
Most entrepreneurs tend to avoid this area of the business, and as a result are badly surprised by cost realities, and investor expectations. They seem to think that financial projections are simply invented numbers for investors, and not useful. In reality, it’s like jumping in your car for a long hard drive with no destination in mind. Chances are, you won’t enjoy more...
How to make your startup look different?
By Martin at June 6, 2011 | 12:06 am | 0 Comment
Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Innovation in marketing is perhaps more important than product innovation. Yet in the business plans I see, the marketing content and budget are smaller than ever. More than just spending, you need to more...
Start your own startup company while working in Google-Will it work?
By ajay at April 8, 2011 | 5:11 pm | 0 Comment
Are you working in Google? Now are you planning to leave Google? Why so? To start your own startup company? Then reconsider your decision and not leave Google. Why? Because . Google would let you work on your own startup idea without leaving Google. Yes. It means, you can build your own startup business while working in Google. Upto two years you more...
Why funding requests for viable businesses are rejected by investors?
By Martin at March 12, 2011 | 2:03 pm | 0 Comment
New entrepreneurs often seem to confuse viability with fundability. Certainly a non-viable business should be not fundable, but many viable businesses are also not fundable. Thus when an investor declines your funding request, you need to curb your anger and understand the real reason for this outcome. In my experience, here are the most common issues that cause more...
Path For Entrepreneurs from innovation to revolution
By Martin at February 21, 2011 | 5:09 pm | 0 Comment
Great startups these days start with innovation, and then take it up a few notches to make it a revolution. An example is Google, who turned a new search technology into a tool that most of us couldn’t live without. As an entrepreneur, how do you know if you have the potential to innovate, and what are the steps to get from innovation to revolution? While digging more...
How To Find Best Angel Investor
By Martin at February 14, 2011 | 6:02 pm | 0 Comment
If your startup is looking for an angel investor, it makes sense to present your plan to flocks of angels, and assume that at least one will swoop down and scoop you up. Or does it? Actually numbers and locations are just the beginning. The challenge is to find the right angel for your, and for your situation. Here are some basic principles: • Angels invest in more...
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Dream Big But With Right Focus
By Martin at February 11, 2011 | 2:57 pm | 0 Comment
It’s great to dream big, but your startup needs a laser focus in the beginning to get market and investor attention. Google did it with search engines, Apple did it with a personal computer, and even Wal-Mart did it through low prices. A business plan I saw a while back to combine all the good features of several popular social networks on one site does not do more...
Why filing for bankruptcy is not a good idea for startup?
By Martin at February 2, 2011 | 1:57 pm | 0 Comment
If you are just plain tired of working so hard, or your startup is not getting the traction you expected, should you shut down cleanly, or just file for bankruptcy and walk away? For those who think that bankruptcy is the easy way out, think again. Bankruptcy should always be the absolutely last resort. The “advantage” of filing for bankruptcy, of course, is that it more...
Successful business model for your company
By Martin at January 30, 2011 | 5:59 pm | 0 Comment
You can’t succeed in business without an operational model that delivers value to customers at a reasonable price, with an underlying cost that allows you to make a profit. There are no “overrides” – for example, businesses don’t thrive just because they offer the latest technology, or because everyone wants to be “green, or because their goal is to reduce more...
Why Entrpreneurs should be thinkers first?
By Martin at January 20, 2011 | 9:52 am | 0 Comment
Startups and entrepreneurs are drowning in the information overload, where the volume of data created is like a new Library of Congress every 15 minutes. That creates a huge gap between data and meaning, and makes quick decisions and action ever more difficult. We all need to take a little more time to think. On the other end of the spectrum, some people more...
What To Do When You Start A New Company IN USA
By VisionwizTeam at November 23, 2010 | 2:18 pm | 0 Comment
Thinking of starting your own start up company but don’t know what to do first? Many questions would be coming in your mind like how much does it cost to form a Corporation or LLC? Or how do I add a shareholder, director or officer in my company? Don’t worry anymore just use this platform which is called Mycompany where you would find all information related to more...
Zokem is providing mobile communication with a twist
By Vineet at January 12, 2010 | 8:35 pm | 0 Comment
What Company Is Offering: Zokem is a new easy and smarter way to build communication through mobile.It is a mobile communications and lifecasting startup that has set out to change how people communicate with each other. For that, Zokem has introduced a social assistant who helps users to share selected moments of their everyday life through mobiles to their friends more...
