Martin Zwilling

Veteran startup mentor, executive, blogger, author, tech professional, and Angel investor. at Startup Professionals, Inc.

Martin Zwilling is the founder and CEO of Startup Professionals, a company that provides products and services to startup founders and small business owners. The author of Do You Have What It Takes to Be an Entrepreneur? and Attracting an Angel, he writes a daily blog for entrepreneurs and dispenses advice on the subject of startups.

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More From Martin Zwilling

Business Accounting

The 10 Most Reliable Ways to Fund a Startup

Every funding decision is a complex tradeoff between near-term and longer-term costs and paybacks, as well as overall ownership and control.

Human Resources

7 Elements of Company Culture That Ensure Your Business Keeps Improving

Are you pushing your company into the future or letting it fall behind the times?

Thought Leaders

What’s the Difference Between an Advisory Board and a Board of Directors?

More importantly, which one do you need for your business?

Thought Leaders

5 Keys to Promoting Accountability in Your Business

Start by making sure you are a good role model for your employees to follow.

Building a Business

8 Ways to Change Your Thinking From Employee to Owner

Even the best employees can struggle to adjust when they become the boss.

Building a Business

8 Reasons to Find Joy in Your Job

If you can't find fun in your job, it may be time to begin your own business.

Entrepreneurs

6 Principles for Personal and Business Success

If you're professionally successful but personally unhappy, you are failing at life.

Building a Business

8 Ways To Pivot Your Business To Kickstart Growth

Quite the opposite of a move of desperation, a pivot can be an act of liberation, freeing your product or company from your own preconceptions.

Building a Business

7 Attributes of An Entrepreneur’s Startup Dream Team

Dream team startups are the work of a diligent entrepreneur who understands strengths and weaknesses.

Building a Business

7 Ways to Keep Your Customers Begging for More

Treat every customer like your best friend, rather than another burden.

Thought Leaders

Even Social Entrepreneurs Need Profit to Meet Their Goals

Social ventures really need profit, not donations, to survive and prosper.

Marketing

8 Ways to Be Certain You Are Selling Solutions Through the Right Channel

No product is so good that people will buy it without ever hearing about it or if they can't find it.

Thought Leaders

Follow These 8 Steps for Your Next Job After a Startup

The challenge for these entrepreneurs is to know when to exit, and how to do it smoothly.

Building a Business

Every Startup Gains From An Incubator Or Accelerator

Every startup can benefit from the right incubator or accelerator, if they are realistic about their needs.

Building a Business

Test Startup Urges As An Intrapreneur, With Caution

Intrapreneurship is a mindset that team members can apply for value in corporations, as well as startups.

Building a Business

7 Team Attributes That Can Make Any Idea Come Alive

The best startups are highly focused in the initial rollout, but can present an evolving strategy.

Thought Leaders

6 Principles for Overcoming Entrepreneurial Adversity

The best entrepreneurs don't succeed by dodging challenges, but because of how they handle them.

Entrepreneurs

7 Entrepreneur Attributes You Need to Lead the Market

Hone your ability to "see around the corner" learn to grow from your failures.

Thought Leaders

9 Leadership Initiatives To Ramp Up Team Engagement

Achieve new levels of market penetration and profitability through these principles of engagement.

Building a Business

7 Good Entrepreneurial Habits That Turn Bad

Learn to capitalize on your strengths, rather than trying to fix your weaknesses.

Building a Business

5 Ways Winning Startups Tackle Tough Growth Constraints

How to think outside the "organic growth" box with strategies like mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, and alliance alternatives.

Building a Business

7 Shortcuts That Can Kill A Startup Business

Good business practices lead to successful ventures.

Thought Leaders

How Entrepreneurs Can Capitalize On Their Alma Mater

Your university may have some surprising resources that can help your entrepreneurial endeavors.

Entrepreneurs

9 Entrepreneur Habits That Lead to Long-Term Success

An angel investor identifies some of the traits he looks for in potential business leaders.

Building a Business

Are You Approaching Investors With No Business Plan and Fuzzy Profit Projections? Get Real.

The odds of finding funding generally correlate highly to your odds of business success -- and your personal risk is even more critical than outside investor risk.