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Startup Next Opens Los Angeles Applications

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According to Startup Next, it helps startups prepare for accelerators and seed investment, using mentors and other founders to help startups with pitches, and puts them through a series of weekly seminars around pitching their company, market sizing, finding product/market/fit, and other topis.

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6 Ways To Learn The Realities For Starting A Business

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Find a business mentor, as well as a friend. A mentor is someone who will tell you what you need to hear, while a friend might tell you what you want to hear. These include the classes in school that focus on case studies and team exercises, but extend beyond the academic world to professional and industry seminars.

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If Your Dream is to Get Rich, Don’t Try a Startup

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Follow up online with social networking to make contact, dig deeper, and maybe even line up a mentor. Adopt a mentor. Boomers who have been there and done that make great mentors. Gen-X executives are too busy running their own companies to be mentors. Formal learning. Go with topics you are interested in and need today.

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Entrepreneurs Relish The Challenge More Than Money

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Follow up online with social networking to make contact, dig deeper, and maybe even line up a mentor. Adopt a mentor. Boomers who have “been there and done that” make great mentors. Gen-X executives are too busy running their own companies to be mentors. Formal learning. Volunteering with local organizations.

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9 Different Approaches For Motivating A Startup Team

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To assess where you are, and to unlock your full potential, there are many courses available, as well as seminars and gurus, but a good place to start is a book on the subject, like the classic one from John Mattone, “ Intelligent Leadership.”

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6 Tips On How To Really Prepare For Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Find a business mentor, as well as a friend. A mentor is someone who will tell you what you need to hear, while a friend might tell you what you want to hear. These include the classes in school that focus on case studies and team exercises, but extend beyond the academic world to professional and industry seminars.

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If Money Is Your Goal, Don’t Be An Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

Follow up online with social networking to make contact, dig deeper, and maybe even line up a mentor. Adopt a mentor. Boomers who have been there and done that make great mentors. Gen-X executives are too busy running their own companies to be mentors. Formal learning. Go with topics you are interested in and need today.