Don’t make these startup fundraising mistakes… Succeeding at fundraising, and maximizing your time and resources spent on fundraising depends just as much on knowing what mistakes to avoid as what you should do. Not Being Prepared For Rejection Yes, there are rare cases in which entrepreneurs have landed funding from cold emails, Twitter messages, and just showing up. … [Read more...] about Worst Startup Fundraising Mistakes
Mistakes to Avoid
The 10 Biggest Business Mistakes of Entrepreneurs (and How You Can Avoid Them)
Being an entrepreneur is not easy, and you may find yourself committing mistakes along the way (some more severe than others). Worse, you may even face failure. Unfortunately, that's what entrepreneurship is all about -- the ever-present risks and the potential for mistakes. David Finkel and Diane Kennedy in their book The Maui Millionaires for Business: The Five Secrets … [Read more...] about The 10 Biggest Business Mistakes of Entrepreneurs (and How You Can Avoid Them)
8 Exhibition Mistakes You Should Avoid at All Costs
Attending exhibitions and trade shows is one of the best ways to show off your product or your business to the world while connecting with vendors, suppliers and major buyers, and that’s why it’s essential that you make a good impression. We often tend to focus on the human element like training the right sales reps and presenter, but we frequently neglect all the little … [Read more...] about 8 Exhibition Mistakes You Should Avoid at All Costs
First Business Fouls Make Second Business Successes
Starting your own business is always risky. You could copy step-for-step the actions of a successful enterprise and still fail to make it to your second year. If you have suffered an entrepreneurial disappointment, it might help to remember that over 50 percent of small businesses go under before their fifth anniversary. Not every business idea is a home run — or even a base … [Read more...] about First Business Fouls Make Second Business Successes
7 Big Marketing Mistakes You Should Avoid
In a previous issue of Sun Magazine was an interview with Studs Terkel. Terkel has written several books that are essentially an oral history of the United states in the last half of the 20th century. His famous book, Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do chronicled the daily work lives of ordinary people. And his 1984 book, The … [Read more...] about 7 Big Marketing Mistakes You Should Avoid
