A true mentor is a person you respect for their knowledge, wisdom, integrity and perspective to help guide you and your ideas from concept to fruition. A true mentor does not seek remuneration, your success is enough.
The object of this post is to challenge business incubators do a better job with their resources including entrepreneur advisors, mentors and staff as well as provide some thoughts for companies already part of or trying to gain acceptance to a business incubator.
In our last post, it was shown that business incubators as a whole give start-up companies a better chance for survival. However, business incubator managers have the ability to be selective with applicants. The selection process filters out weaker start-ups and inherently leads to a better than normal chance for survival.Read the full article now
In a previous post Choosing What To Do With Your Website the concept of sales metrics was mentioned. This article will help you understand what sales metrics means to a new venture and how to use this information to create your web presence.
Do Your Sales Projections Fit?
What are Sales Metrics?
The term sales metrics describes the reasons you will be able to make financial projections, budgets and cash flow decisions for your business. The principles are the same regardless of whether or not you are starting a disruptive technology venture, professional practice or web-based micro-enterprise. Without an understanding of sales metrics your new venture will never get off the ground and you will have zero chance of raising Angel or VC investment. Read the full article now
In our last post about keywords we unintentionally left out the section on how to create keywords. This post gives you an idea that will help generate long-tailed keywords from your original ideas.
Short and Long Tailed Keywords for New Ventures
The best way to show this is by example. For our example, we use a new technology venture called kewlertech.com that makes a sensor for home and industrial use. The original short keywords are:
kewlertech
kewlertech sensor
Using these two words you can see how additional key words are generated by looking at the chart below.
Keyword Generation for Entrepreneurs, Professional Practices and Micro-enterprises