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Advice for Aspiring Entrepreneurs

Your People:

1. Consult broadly - create an advisory board that includes experts in fields other than your own and consult them regularly
2. Recruit stars - when hiring, don't compromise on quality, even if that means your team is occasionally stretched
3. Stay horizontal - keep your team involved in strategy discussions and encourage their input even if you make the final decisions

Your Philosophy:
1. Be practical - the value of innovation to a business is determined by its commercial viability. Identify, define and understand the market that you're targeting and evaluate ideas objectively and in the real world context your business operates in.
2. Be patient - New ideas evolve into great ideas over time. Identifying the ideas that lead to paradigm shifting innovation can be time consuming so the






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Debra Gould, aka The Staging DivaŽ, is President of Six Elements Inc., an internationally recognized home staging company. Inspired by many requests from aspiring home stagers wanting to start similar businesses, Gould created the Staging Diva Home Staging Business Training Program. Gould has trained over 1000 Staging Diva Graduates worldwide to start staging businesses. Buying decorating and selling six of her own homes in four years lead to an interest in real estate staging which she turned into a career with the launch of sixelements.com in 2002. Since then she has staged hundreds of homes in addition to teaching home staging training. Gould is the author of several home staging resources including a series of popular ebooks made up of a Design Guide, Color Guide and Portfolio Guide. For more information about Debra Gould visit stagingdiva.com. - Visit Staging Diva's Website


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(Visit Nader's Website) Nader Alaghband is a founder and CEO of Earthtone (www.Earthtone.net), revolutionary online printing platform that connects SMBs, SOHOs, mobile professionals and consumers to a network of independent print providers over the web securely and efficiently. Nader is responsible for the formulation of Earthtone's strategic vision and development of its commercial and service propositions. He plays a leading role in the commercialization of the service and oversees product development, marketing and media relations activities. Having graduated from Cornell University just in 2003, Nader already has an impressive background; previously, he held positions with Foreign Policy Centre (London, U.K.) and Northern Trading.

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