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7 Reasons Why Every Business Leader Needs A Mentor

Startup Professionals Musings

After working many years in business, both in large companies as well as startups, I’ve realized that you can learn more from peers and mentors than from any formal education program. Best of all, I find mentoring to be fun and fulfilling for both the giver and the receiver. Mentoring works best one-on-one and person-to-person.

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7 Steps To Greater Satisfaction As A New Entrepreneur

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In my role as mentor to many of you aspiring entrepreneurs, I often find you convinced that all you need to start is a unique innovation or idea , and now you are ready to jump in with both feet and enjoy the ride. Enlist a mentor and advisor who is not a ‘yes’ person. You can win as a team. Find your level of passion early.

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8 Unpublicized Strategies From Serious Entrepreneurs

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But privately, as a mentor to many entrepreneurs, I see mindsets and attributes that may be equally critical to success, but are not readily admitted, for fear of being too wacky. At some stage of your education, you realize that you can learn faster, and get more satisfaction, in the real world than in a academic environment.

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

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Seth’s interest in helping others grew out of his lack of having a mentor. Although both parents are educators, his father a professor and his mother the Commissioner of Education in Connecticut, they did not teach him business. He was drawn to Stanford by the people ecosystem- access to professors and mentors.

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7 Personal Decisions That Delineate Your Best Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Unfortunately, these goals are often mutually exclusive, and focusing on the wrong ones won’t bring you that business success and satisfaction you crave. For example, Richard Branson relishes the satisfaction of initiating innovative startups, and rewarding strong team members with the opportunity to run a joint spinoff.

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6 Ways To Transform Startup Constraints Into Benefits

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Ironically, as a startup investor and mentor, I have seen too many failures caused by just the opposite – too much money spent too soon, taking time to get product perfection, and assuming customers will wait. Subtraction leads to simplicity, better usability, and easier education of your customers. Find new ways to augment.

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6 Keys To Selecting The Right Business Future For You

Startup Professionals Musings

Most of you business professionals that I know have at least thought about or talked about starting their own business, to get more control, make more money, or to get more satisfaction out of their life. As a mentor to young aspiring entrepreneurs , I often get asked for tips on a strategy to get started. You must feel satisfaction.

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