10 Essential Business Plan Components

10 Essential Business Plan Components
 
Business plans are critical to the success of any new venture. I believe that entrepreneurs should dedicate time to create them, 
regardless if you’re searching for investors. Business plans serve as the framework for your company and provide benchmarks to see if you’re reaching your goals.
In my experience, they are key to helping you think through your business and keep you on track.
 
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How To Communicate Effectively At Work

How To Communicate Effectively At Work
 
The title of Karen Friedman’s most recent book isn’t exactly subtle. 
Shut Up And Say Something: Business Communication Strategies to Overcome Challenges and Influence Listeners lays out her no-nonsense philosophy about how to best get your point across, 
drawn from her 40 years of experience as a professional communicator. As a TV news reporter, she worked at local stations in cities from Milwaukee to Huntsville, AL.
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Three Things To Remember Before You Put Your Product Into The Market

Three Things To Remember Before You Put Your Product Into The Market
 
One of the most complicated parts of a new business is preparing for the launch of your product.
 
You have a passionate cause, a great social enterprise idea and the support of funders, but there still remains one of the most complicated parts of a new business:
putting a product into the market.
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Stop Sputtering At The Finish Line: Five Energy-Wasters That You Need To Get In Check

Stop Sputtering At The Finish Line: Five Energy-Wasters That You Need To Get In Check
 
Are you a workaholic trying to find a way to keep your energy up and also find time to relax? 
Are you tired of struggling to keep it all together, while trying to squeeze in enough time to truly enjoy life? 
Entrepreneurs at startup businesses are working longer hours than ever before. 
You rise early and work late into the night.
It consumes your mind and drains your energy. 
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How To Get Any Job You Want

Here’s what goes on behind closed doors-
 
Credentials and paper qualifications DO matter for some (mainly academic)industries like medicine or law, but for most other fields, job requirements are surprisingly negotiable.
Companies can sometimes receive over a hundred applications for a single position, so they need to have some way of weeding people out to keep that number manageable.
 
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Positive Thinking Tips to Improve Your Sales Motivation

Control Your Thoughts: 
 
Fight the fear of failure,If you think you are going to do badly you probably will. Those people that say they are unlucky in life are generally doomed to failure from the start as they don't have self belief. Here's a way of remaining positive. If you are worried about a particular sales meeting try and decipher the worst case scenario. 
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Why Good People Under-perform

When hiring there are 6 things you may want to consider.The more senior the person or people you're interviewing with , the more definite their ideas are likely to be about what they're looking for.Our own continued success depends on hiring the best people.

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Sequana Medical AG raises CHF 23 million in a Series C financing led by LSP

Sequana Medical AG, a private Swiss medical device company with innovative fluid management technologies, announced today that it has raised CHF 23 million ($26.2 million) in a Series C preferred share financing round led by LSP (Life Science Partners), and co-led by NeoMed Management, VI Partners, BioMedInvest, Entrepreneurs Fund and Capricorn Venture Partners. NeoMed retains its role as the largest investor in Sequana Medical.
 
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