If you had to distill your best business advice for new entrepreneurs into just seven words, what would they be? We asked Inc. readers this question, and you rose to the challenge, offering up wisdom on hustling, patience, leadership, and more.
Here's some of the amazing--and amazingly concise--advice you gave us.
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http://www.inc.com/stephanie-meyers/7-powerful-words-advice-entrepreneurs.html?cid=em01016week40e
"...Even big-time entrepreneurs like Larry Page and Mark Zuckerberg had to learn how to be effective managers. If not, the companies they founded, the Googles and Facebooks of the world, never would have gone anywhere. I don't care how cool their innovations were."
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http://www.inc.com/steve-tobak/10-skills-to-land-a-management-job.html?cid=em01012week10b
Out of the almost 9,000 small business owners that were surveyed, there were 8 main themes that seemed to come up the most. Here are the 8 most popular answers that were given as the top secrets for Entrepreneurial Success.
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http://make1kadaywithimmacc.blogspot.com/2013/01/secrets-of-successful-home-business.html
This 40 page guide is a massive (11,520 to be precise) compilation of free to access resources on how to start an online business. These internet resources take the form of tips, tricks, tools, techniques, advice, tutorials, tests, blog posts, articles and guides.
The guide takes you through different phases of starting an online business, right from generating a business idea to implementing and marketing it and later growing your business. To best of my author's knowledge, no other guide contains such a huge list of resources and is so comprehensive that everyone (from newbies to professionals) is going to find something useful in it.
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http://paraschopra.com/business/free-guide-start-online-business.php
"In order for your ideas to seem fresh, they have to be a little bit off-center, a little bit off-kilter. You have to see your ideas a little more clearly than everyone else in order to believe they will work."
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http://www.inc.com/penelope-trunk/surprising-ways-to-find-great-startup-ideas.html?cid=em01012week29
While the mission of your business centers on what you are called to achieve, your vision is the result of all you desire to accomplish. It is your ideal - your future. The vision you create for your business is the sustaining force that stimulates innovation, communicates passion, and inspires the masses to action. It is the vacuum that pulls you, and others, forward.
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http://projecteve.com/profiles/blogs/10-questions-entrepreneurs-can-ask-to-focus-their-vision
But many successful entrepreneurs take it a step further and completely flip the script in order to subscribe to a new business paradigm. Would your business benefit from a new way of thinking?
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http://www.inc.com/khary-cuffe/radical-ideas-for-start-up-success.html?cid=em01012week29
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http://www.inc.com/young-entrepreneur-council/12-dumb-mistakes-to-avoid-when-pitching-investors.html?cid=em01012week29
"Unless you have a spectacular track record as an entrepreneur or an exceptionally great new business idea, you cannot raise capital without a business plan. I have invested in six start-ups and three of those were sold for a total of $2 billion. The other three went out of business."
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http://www.inc.com/peter-cohan/the-anatomy-of-a-killer-business-plan.html?cid=em01012week33
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http://www.inc.com/young-entrepreneur-council/entrepreneurship-and-parenthood-making-room-for-both.html?cid=em01012week33
Every young entrepreneur is strapped for cash yet looking for all the same products and services that big companies use. It is important to look professional yet also squeeze every penny when starting out. Here are 11 tools that will help you do both in the startup days of your venture.
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http://under30ceo.com/11-free-tools-every-young-entrepreneur-must-use
This post is part of a new series on Market Mommy, Achieving $uccess. These posts detail the journey these mom entrepreneurs have taken to reach sales of six figures and beyond. How do they balance it all? What strategies have worked for them? What advice do they have for you, the new mom entrepreneur?
Read through the complete list of women being profiled here
http://www.marketmommy.com/blog/tag/achieving-uccess
With women starting new businesses at twice the rate of men, and with women dominating the social media realm, I knew that there was no shortage of women tweeting about entrepreneurship.
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http://www.theworkathomewoman.com/25-most-influential-women-tweeting-about-entrepreneurship
"What can you do to make sure your business thrives even if the economy goes down the tubes again? Here are 10 ideas, from marketing and business-wealth expert Thor Harris, president of the PR firm Percepture and some from moi.."
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http://www.entrepreneur.com/blog/220205