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5 Entrepreneur Exasperations To Moderate Your Passion

Startup Professionals Musings

The best part of being an entrepreneur is having the independence to make your own decisions, the flexibility for a better work/life balance, and personal satisfaction from driving change. The road to business success is filled with challenges and frustrations that most aspiring entrepreneurs never even imagined.

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5 Early Entrepreneur Strengths That Can Limit Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

Many years ago, John Hamm published some definitive work on this subject in " Why Entrepreneurs Don't Scale " in the Harvard Business Review. This is generally a required quality for a successful entrepreneur, but it can turn into an unhealthy stubbornness during the scaling stage. Absolute control. Tactical versus strategic.

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5 Rewards Of Independence That Excite Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

For all entrepreneurs, starting a business is the route to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” no matter how risky. According to a classic article and poll by Startups.co.uk , having the independence to make your own decisions is considered the key benefit of being an entrepreneur. If you are here in the U.S.,

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Why Entrepreneurs Should Be Respected More Than Loved

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This is when your job function truly starts to match the definition of “leader” because that’s exactly what your role is. You course correct. Marketing of course often feels the opposite. In my experience entrepreneurs too worried about being loved make poor decisions and thus poor leaders.

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6 Cost-Cutting Recommendations For New Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

With the appearance of do-it-yourself services on the Internet, entrepreneur curriculums at every university, and a wealth of new books on the subject, the need for expensive consultants and business advisors has also been mitigated. It never happened in any time frame I can remember, and it definitely won’t happen today.

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How Smart Entrepreneurs Don’t Hesitate To Seek Help

Startup Professionals Musings

I suspect it’s a function of pride and confidence in my own problem solving abilities, but my hesitation has definitely cost me time and money. Thus, in my consulting with entrepreneurs, I always encourage them to get more comfortable asking for help. Of course, there are good ways and bad ways to ask for help.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

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We have global opportunities from these trends but of course also big challenges. Of course we can’t. By definition?—?I’m And the truth is that several entrepreneurs prefer it this way. The market definition has changed but what we do mostly hasn’t. Hot, Flat & Crowded.” What Has Changed in Financing?