Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2023

Smart business owners realize that no returns occur without some investment and risk. Rather than a focus on salary and perks, your focus is on customers, revenue, and operations. As an employee, you only get to execute what others tell you, even if you enjoy the challenge of new requirements and customer feedback.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2023

We all see reports of venture capitalists who invest millions in new businesses, but be assured that these investments come only after you have a proven base business, and have a case for scaling it quickly. These are necessary to attract customers, investors, and give you a line of defense with competitors.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Unlike a lot of grants on this list, the competition is open to all US small businesses, as long as they have fewer than 99 employees, have been operating for at least six months, and have a FedEx business account that's been open before September 1, 2023. Small Business Administration SBA 7(a) loans U.S. Learn more and apply here 3.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2023

It is vitally important to leverage your efforts to maximize all key constituents, including customers, team members, partners, and other stakeholders. While any business transformation can be challenging, I urge you to always put value creation for your customers, your business, and ecosystem partners ahead of profits.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 9, 2023

For example, if you are an entrepreneur seeking investment or a cofounder, there is no substitute for networking at industry and startup conferences in your area. If you are an introvert like me, this may be difficult, but remember that your business needs collaboration with partners and vendors, as well as good customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2023

Thus they are blindsided and try to react quickly when a new competitor starts stealing customers. For example, we all remember when Blockbuster realized too late that Netflix was stealing customers by offering videos online rather than via DVDs, but even then they were unable to adapt their processes and their thinking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2023

Investing now in your employees makes them more valuable to you, whether that payoff comes now or later. More transparency and openness from company executives on customers, competitors, and business results is key to engagement, loyalty, and trust. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 2/27/2023

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 31, 2022

And yet, Paris is in the midst of potentially banning its 15,000 shared e-scooters as politicians from several parties call on Hidalgo not to renew the contracts of Lime, Dott and Tier when they expire in February 2023. E-bike subsidies, consolidation and IPOs: Our 2023 micromobility predictions. – Harri Weber.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Its target customers are millennials traveling in groups or families swayed by the size and scope of the accommodation — typically five times bigger than the average hotel room — as well as the price, which is on average 25% cheaper than a hotel room. and globally to 25 markets by next year, up from 12 today.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Walmart’s been investing heavily in its e-commerce capabilities — too heavily for some investors’ tastes , in fact — in an effort to make up ground on Amazon and Google , both of which are already deep into the drone development process. The primary e-commerce change would come in the form of new customer expectations.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Archer Aviation’s announcement comes two weeks since it landed United Airlines as a customer and an investor in its bid to become a publicly traded company via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company. an increasingly common financial path that allows the startup to eschew the once traditional IPO process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 11, 2023

People respond to positives, such as new growth, versus problems implying costs and loss of customers. Foster experiments that don’t require major investments, rather than “big bang” solutions. This also applies to key customers as well as strategic partners. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 09/19/2023

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