Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2016

No matter how strong your business and technology insights are, you can benefit from input at all levels of the organization, as well as outside experts and customers. When team member solutions work well, everyone wins, while top-down decisions provide minimal satisfaction and learning for the team. Leaders grow through relationships.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2016

Constant stress, tension, and unhappiness causes people to withdraw and reject new customer ideas or solutions. In the unknowns of a new business, there are no right ways or wrong ways, just new ways that need to be tested to satisfy customer needs and stay ahead of competitors. They also get satisfaction from mentoring others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2016

It’s easy to declare yourself an entrepreneur, but it’s not so easy to convince investors, your team and customers that you are that special one to fund and follow. Vision of providing real customer and social value. Relationships with others are required to build a team, nurture customers and complement individual strengths.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Until a new brand has national recognition or high promotion, it won’t be found or used by local customers or out of town visitors. You need metrics to show dominant penetration of the relevant customer demographic, added value over existing media, and real customer testimonials of value. Anyone can do it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2016

It comes with the territory, and includes cash-flow challenges, fickle customers, belligerent investors and unpredictable economic downturns. The best entrepreneurs tackle these one at a time without losing their stride or their passion and many secretly get their highest satisfaction from overcoming an impossible problem.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2016

Hiring requirements must be anticipated and implemented with the same precision and tracking as manufacturing volumes, sales leads, and customer service. We all make staffing mistakes, so it’s most important to quickly fix them, before the morale of the whole team is impacted, or your business loses some key customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Many entrepreneurs are so passionate about their new startup idea that they can’t believe any intelligent being, investor or customer wouldn’t react just as excitedly after a quick introduction. You have to persuade the right partners to join and build the solution, the right investors to fund it and the right customers to buy it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2016

Maintaining your team’s passion and freedom to focus first on innovating for customers are only a couple of the reasons for thinking hard before you seek money from crowdfunding, angel investors, venture capital organizations, or attempt to qualify for a public stock offering. Marty Zwilling First published on Forbes on 06/01/2016.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2016

Interact with real customers to validate passion in their feedback. Use social media and live customers to eliminate any reality distortion in your internal perception of value. Of course, an even more important driver of passion than success is happiness and satisfaction with the lifestyle.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2016

These companies, and many others, are finding that strong leadership and personally-tuned benefits are the key to long-term satisfaction and motivation, certainly more effective than high salaries and financial incentives alone. Your display of pride in the company and respect for the customer will translate directly into motivation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2016

These could include customer penetration, revenue growth, budget guidelines, and industry visibility. Team members begin by working with industry experts, advisors, and customers to validate assumptions, implementation plans, and financial parameters. Marty Zwilling First published on Forbes on 07/15/2016.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2016

Maintaining that balance between doing good and doing business is a key to success that investors and customers watch carefully. They have to ability and patience, as well, to communicate and awaken customers to a need never felt before. They get their satisfaction from the journey, as well as the destination.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Many team members work hard and spend company resources to mollify unhappy customers, but most never really tackle the underlying problem of product quality, missing process, or distribution failure. Marty Zwilling First published on Forbes on 08/27/2016. Use root cause analysis to avoid working on symptoms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

These are the endless stream of email, phone calls, and daily crises which prevent really important accomplishments, like closing customers. Incorporate your business today, register intellectual property, document partner equity agreements, and meet real customers. Savor the satisfaction of success, and watch the stress melt away.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

In enterprises, performance objectives are usually tied to internal processes, rather than beating competitors, customer acquisition, and revenue growth. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 10/24/2016. Measurements set on internal objectives, rather than market traction. I still enjoy the journey as well as the destination.

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