#startup 101

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(Tori Torres)

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LEADERSHIP: Nine (9) Ways to Lead your Leaders by John Maxwell

LEADERSHIP: Nine (9) Ways to Lead your Leaders by John Maxwell

“Most leaders want to lead, not be led. But most leaders also want to have value added to them. If you take the approach of wanting to add value to those above you, you have the best chance of influencing them.”

Today, we’ll discuss 9 principles to lead up. Join us as we walk through the best ways to “support your leader, add value to the organization, and distinguish yourself from the rest of…

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Raccogliere una Convertible Note su una Startup Innovativa

Parlando con i founder delle startup italiane, mi sono accorto che spesso mancano di una serie di competenze di base che dovrebbero essere date per assodate. Con questo post voglio dare il via ad una serie intitolata “Startup 101”, dedicata alla condivisione dei concetti di base, nella speranza di poter essere di aiuto a tante startup del paese affinchè partano con il piede giusto. L’avvio di…

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7 Tips To Building Your Dream Into A Thriving Business

One of the themes that run through my teleclass, Believe! How to Work With Your Beliefs to Grow a Prosperous and Abundant Business, is the tension between the creative power of thought and resource-depleting habits of wishful thinking. I offer the following 7 Reality Checks to help you reconcile your dreams with reality so that you can build your dream into a thriving business.

1. In spite of your best intentions you will make mistakes.

To the best of your ability, which may sometimes be slim, welcome these occasions as an opportunity to let go of perfectionism. Pause to review your offer to your clients. Are you positioning yourself as a know-it-all or as a responsive partner and learner? Are you putting yourself on a pedestal? Reflect on the distinctions among honesty, reliability, and perfection. Meditate on the difference between apology and accountability. Muse on the difference between significance and integrity.

2. Things go "wrong."

I put "wrong" in quotes because stumbling blocks teach me things I need to know in order to serve and thrive. Hey, I'd rather learn without failing too, but however the lesson happens, there you are. Every time you look with humility and trust for your personal lesson, you are helping to create the possible dream. (Note: Sometimes the lesson is simply to let go of your idea of what should have happened. Lessons are not code for "There's something wrong with you.")

3. Not everyone wants or needs what you have.

That's good news because odds are that you can't respond to every one anyway. Cultivate the courage, integrity, and clarity to listen deeply to prospective clients and decline to work with those whom you are not ideally suited to serve. Ask questions, especially scary ones (Can you afford this? Do you have any reservations? What will it take for this to be a good investment for you?). Ask first; sell later. Actually, when you do this, the selling takes care of itself.

4. Humbly welcome opportunities to profit.

There is always opportunities for referrals or affiliate programs. Will you profit if your customers buys them? Yes, earn a commission on every sale from referral and/or affiliate links. These a no cost investments that can help you build your business in the beginning stages.

5. Customers have bad days, too.

Some times they're going to take it out on you. That doesn't mean you have to slink home licking your wounds, nor does it you get to strike back. It certainly doesn't mean you have to accept abuse. When you feel unfairly used, take a few deep breaths, notice what you wish were different, and remember that we're all human. Maybe it's time to do some boundary maintenance. Are you pretending that you need to please everyone or that everyone needs to like you in order for you to thrive? Look to yourself, not because you are to blame, but because you are the only one whose behavior you can manage. (Customers are always right where they are.)

6. Sometimes whole systems go wrong or you find out too late that a new project was not quite ready for prime time.

(Just ask me.) At times like this you get to practice being available and responsive to customer needs while also taking care of yourself. Sometimes you won't (yet) know how to solve or resolve the problem and you may resent the time you're using to reassure clients instead of getting things on track. BREATHE. Learn to say, "I don't know and I do care and I will get back to you as soon as I can." Practice saying it with dignity, conviction, and patience. Take some time to wonder what you would need to believe in order for all of this to feel right and true.

7. Owning a business can be isolating.

Many entrepreneurs are natural soloists. That doesn't mean we don't need or want support, though we may be the last to realize it. Spend some time wondering why other people might want you to thrive. Let your imagination run free as you speculate on what kinds of collaboration could work for you.

Turn your complaints about networking into dreams of your ideal support system. What would your business look and feel like if you knew you did not have to have it all together because there was lots of help at hand?

The secrets to creating the possible dream are all related to accepting what is, which includes accepting the support that is everywhere around you and accepting your own desire to build a business that adds real value in the world and allows you to thrive.

Some days it will be easier than others to believe that reality and your dream can co-exist. But if you persist with humility, passion, and trust, your dream will teach you how it wants to be made real. I know because my own dream teaches me every day.

~ Raquel Guardia, also known as the “WiseUp Coach”, is an emerging leading expert in helping entrepreneurs succeed in business. She is a Spiritual Mentor, Social Media Educator, Small Business Start-Up Coach, and Blogger. Her advice is a straight forward, easy approach to understanding how to build a successful business and attract clients while keeping balance in your personal life. Raquel developed a step-by-step program: Life Balance and Business Growth, a Business Online Success Blueprint that assists in laying out an easy to develop business plan, life success plan and daily motivational mantras to attract abundance and keep it all in balance.

[sarolaw]

Startup 101 - Class is in Session

One of my clients made a wise suggestion that I use this space to provide clients and readers with answers to some common questions that startups and small businesses encounter when they're starting their business.  Well, as the old saying goes, the client is always right.  Well, almost always, but that's another post.  So this week I'm starting a series of posts that will answer some common, yet vexing, questions facing small business owners and startups, such as: where do I find an attorney? what kind of business entity should I form? what type of agreements should I enter into with my co-founders? how could it possibly snow in New York in October? The first post should be up in a day or so.  Don't touch that dial!

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Startup 101 .... by Steve Blank

I found this while beginning the process of putting together a deck for potential investors - six slides people, six slides ! The six slides is another story pushed by fred Wilson @ AVC.com - if you're not familiar with Fred yet I'm not sure where you've been or what you're doing - I love his high visibility strategy and I'm sure it enables USV to get in on deals before their competitors {applauds strategic awesomeness}

I remembered at post by Steve Blank on his blog and went searching for it [check out Steve Blank blog too] he has many valuable resources for entrepreneurs.

Ok, so I will stop blabbing and just let you see the presentation which is why I wanted to write this post in the first place - here it is.

Successful entrepreneurship 1

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I hope this post and this presentation helps in some way - founding a startup is not easy, sharing information is absolutely necessary.