Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2016

It also helps to create office events for family members and local community groups. They need incentives to investigate market trends and competitive actions, as well as continuous communication of the bigger picture of the business and current objectives. Encourage networking. Reward success.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

If you’ve spent any time in the business-events industry, you know destinations like Las Vegas, Paris, Chicago, or Barcelona like the back of your hand. In 2016, the renowned international university programming tournament — attended by student competitors, coaches, and parents — took place in Phuket, Thailand. Petersburg, Russia.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

Some businesses require very little capital and the founder can self-finance the enterprise and retain 100% of its ownership and control from ignition through liquidity event (startup through sale). For you who fit that description, nice work. It’s an option, even though an expensive one.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

Great benefits and a workplace that is fun and dedicated to making customers happy all fit in with the Zappos approach to company culture — when you get the company culture right, great customer service and a great brand will happen on its own. Portions of the budget are dedicated to employee team building and culture promotion.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

Great benefits and a workplace that is fun and dedicated to making customers happy all fit in with the Zappos approach to company culture — when you get the company culture right, great customer service and a great brand will happen on its own. Portions of the budget are dedicated to employee team building and culture promotion.

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Examples Company Companies Google 100

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2013

Mission statements tend to be narrow, business oriented statements such as “Be the leader in customer satisfaction.” The best way to be clear about them is to regularly engage team members, customers, and suppliers. A good team will step up to the challenge, and your customers will notice and respond to the culture of excellence.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2012

Mission statements tend to be narrow, business oriented statements such as “Be the leader in customer satisfaction.” The best way to be clear about them is to regularly engage team members, customers, and suppliers. A good team will step up to the challenge, and your customers will notice and respond to the culture of excellence.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Real leaders improve the readiness, training, and preparation for these events, so that circumstances are not a source of pain, but are expected and can be accomplished with personal satisfaction. Develop accountability through coaching and mentoring. Confirm that challenges are the only reality for success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Yet, according to statistics from the Small Business Association (SBA), over half of new businesses offer something else - personal professional services, including consulting, business coaching, and advisory services. Flexible business models, including value-based pricing, bundling, and custom proposals are the places to begin.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Partly out of the fact that in 1 week I depart for England to speak at LeWeb, attend our DataSift board meeting and generally make myself available to the DataSift team to meet their customers, partners and employees. Ask them to mention you to the press, speak about you on stage when they do public events, whatever. And improve.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

I’ve spent hours this week reading about the firing of the head coach and personnel manager of the football team I support – The Philadelphia Eagles. His name was Chip Kelly and he came off of a very successful stint as the coach of the collegiate Oregon Ducks. This is something I try to coach against. Team Building.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 9, 2014

New or existing 3D models can also be customized and uploaded with new designs for other to use and share. It’s even coupled to an app (available for both Android or iOS) that provides various exercises and coaches users. You can plug it in and start printing right out of the box. A lot of data is available for users to input.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

And there is often competition over marketing activities, fund raising ownership and the like. We felt we wanted “management heavy” where we’d try to put more effort into tracking systems, data analysis, event management, content creation and the like. That certainly works well for some. Partner Leverage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2019

What every entrepreneur needs more than anything else, after they have built an innovative new product or service, is visibility, credibility, and trust by customers, potential employees, and future business partners. If you use a publisher, they may add more visibility with press releases and book-signing events.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 6, 2015

I was, however, very competitive when I was young, and had played football in high school well enough to get scholarship offers from what would be called division 1 schools in today’s world. These were sports that you taught yourself by watching others, and just pushed yourself to progress for fun, with no coach or parent influencing you.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

These include building products, recruiting, managing your finances, marketing, selling, getting feedback from customers and … fund raising. If it were a sales campaign to a CMO you would naturally think about having customer references. Building a business is not about only building a product and seeing if customers like it.

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Alon Schwartz

MARCH 30, 2012

Two short pages is the max, and always make sure you customize it for the job you’re applying to. Dress For The Right Event. I’m still shocked when people ask me questions like: “Who is your competition?” No one has time to flip though ten pages of projects and a detailed job history. or “How do you make money?” You tell me.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

Because its just not that hyper-competitive, Im-hiring-all-your-staff, because-Im-Google environment. Customer Service Workshop Fast Company joins the customer service revolution across the US. You dont have the same levels of fast turnover as a starting point, right? Register Now! Be extra productive. Learn more.

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