Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

Of course, not every entrepreneur wants to tackle this challenge. Of course, that means a new level of risk, giving up some control, and a new business plan. Hire more help than helpers. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships. There is no free lunch.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2023

That’s why I’m impressed with the classic book, “ All Dreams on Deck: Charting the Course for Your Life and Work ,” by Jeremy Cage. Ask for help from advisors and mentor your team. People don’t usually need to ask for help with their dreams, but no entrepreneur I know has built a successful business alone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2023

I agree with her eight key attributes of a head and heart leader, which I paraphrase here, in hopes of challenging your own thinking, In addition, I am providing some of my own practical insights to inspire and help you become the type of business leader I sense the world needs today: Lead with curiosity as a team role model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2021

Here are the key reasons that I recommend that aspiring leaders focus on people before process: Customers judge the business by the people quality. Whether it be in person, on the phone, or implied in your marketing, your people and their engagement level is the key driver of customer loyalty, advocacy, and sales growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2021

Once you are able to achieve some real “traction” with your business (paying customers, revenue stream), it may seem the time to relax a bit, but in fact this is the point where many founders start to flounder. The key is to make decisions from data and feedback, once your business has real customers and real products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

For many, it’s hard to make the switch from that top-down order-giving culture, and it’s hard to find the time to recruit and coach the new team members you need to scale the business to success. You need them to make a personal commitment to customer service, improved quality, and change to improve the future.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2022

Be sure to encompass all your constituents, especially including customers. Many leaders do this today by supporting and promoting a higher-level purpose, beyond profits, such as helping the disadvantaged, sustaining the environment, or Conscious Capitalism. As a result, they recently were acquired by Amazon for $13.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2022

Of course, listening alone isn't enough. Team members, as well as customers, like to feel connected and inspired by a worthy non-business objective, such as helping the disadvantaged, saving the environment, or supporting inclusivity. This created a connection with both his team and customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 24, 2022

Every business owner I know wishes that all team members were leaders, to proactively tackle the challenges of growth , interact effectively with customers on their needs, and eventually step into your role. Notice people who always take a customer perspective. It’s no secret today that customers are more demanding than ever.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Some of the most helpful people to me personally have been people not being directly compensated for doing so. And that person has almost certainly chosen specifically to be a startup lawyer over serving other types of customers because he or she enjoys working with entrepreneurs. EXECUTIVE COACHES. It’s a great read.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2022

In fact, most employee training courses recommend the distance if the work relationship crosses management levels, and most management policies strictly forbid fraternizing with the team. in sociology, and is a coach and speaker on work issues and friendship. Of course, all these things can happen in any workship.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2022

Of course, how you do this effectively is critical. Take full advantage of every mentoring and coaching opportunity, and network with peers both inside and outside the company. Use social media to show a positive presence, communicate with people in similar positions, and build relationships with people who can help you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2022

Help constituents find meaning in what they do. They help people see how their individual roles link to and support that purpose, and how the work aligns with their own personal values. They help people see how their individual roles link to and support that purpose, and how the work aligns with their own personal values.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2020

Of course, they may be out of money as well, but that is often more of an “excuse” than a reason. You probably realize that the leading edge is very near the bleeding edge, where only early adopter customers dare to tread. On the other hand, if you wait for competitors to get there first, you may be left in the dust with no customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

That’s why I’m impressed with the classic book, “ All Dreams on Deck: Charting the Course for Your Life and Work ,” by Jeremy Cage. Ask for help from advisors and mentor your team. People don’t usually need to ask for help with their dreams, but no entrepreneur I know has built a successful business alone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2022

Is it more customers, more revenue, more profit, or killing competitors? Of course, all of these are important, but everyone needs to prioritize the same way during a crisis. That means they take action, reflect on outcomes, and gain insights that help them continuously improve. The first step is to define “winning.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2022

I too often see people who are quick to make excuses, blame failures on peers or customers, or see management as the reason for their lack of productivity. Of course, at all levels of an organization or business, there are opportunities for accountability that can make or break your career or your leadership perception in the eyes of others.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

VCs should be more of a coach than proscriptively telling you what to do. To be clear – I’m not saying huge successes make a VC less likely to be helpful to you – I’m just saying it’s not a guaranteed predictor. I would call their portfolio companies and ask how helpful or not they’ve been.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Of course, as you work with contract players, explore the potential for a long-term relationship, and wait until your organization matures to pursue career positions. By hiring contract experts, less oversight and coaching is needed. You all have to deal today primarily with on-demand customers in an on-demand economy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2022

Hawkes, as the Founder of Growth River consulting, speaks from his experience helping to create high performance organizations around the world. The payback in team engagement, as well as customer revenue and loyalty, can be large. Keep focus on the journey to a common goal. Provide resources to implement initiatives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2018

While I do agree that many attributes of a good entrepreneur, such as curiosity, confidence and determination, are largely determined by early-life experiences, a good education is critical in understanding the elements of creating a business and wooing customers. Practical business courses are better than an advanced degree or MBA.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

So operating at a higher level, helping to set the framework for decision making and then sitting down and watching the game be played, is certainly the way to go.” ” Of course I agree with this. In practice it can be a fine line between sparring partner / coach and stepping over the line to brute-force persuasion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Of course, not every entrepreneur wants to tackle this challenge. Of course, that means a new level of risk, giving up some control, and a new business plan. Hire more help than helpers. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships. There is no free lunch.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2019

We are living in a new generation of business, where customers drive the experience, and highly engaged employees are required to keep up with customer expectations. Of course, these are great, but they don’t happen without enlightened leadership coming first. Benton and Kylie Wright-Ford.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2019

I found many more helpful suggestions in a new book, “ The Culture Question ,” by Randy Grieser, Eric Stutzman, Wendy Loewen, and Michael Labun, who have spent years providing leadership and professional development training to companies around the world. Ask for help in eliminating useless tasks.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

He had an idea for a startup that would help consumers better book service jobs and would take on Service Magic, which he believed had a business model that could be disrupted. I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan. In industry this is known as “yield management” and of course it needs to exist.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2017

Also don’t confuse a business mentor with a business coach. A business mentor helps to fill an experience gap, while a coach helps fill a skill gap. A mentor’s aim is to teach you by using specific examples of what to do and how, unlike a coach who helps you develop your generic skills for deciding what to do and when.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2017

You may think you need more entrepreneurial courses in school, or more advanced degrees, but in my experience it’s more of a mindset, some good coaching, and learning by doing that separates the winners from the losers. You learn as much as a coach as the student. Sometimes it helps to not know what’s not possible.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2016

While I do agree that many attributes of a good entrepreneur, such as curiosity, confidence and determination, are largely determined by early-life experiences, a good education is critical in understanding the elements of creating a business and wooing customers. Practical business courses are better than an advanced degree or MBA.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2018

This is true of any buying process where a customer has to make a large investment decision on your software or when an investor must decide whether to give you $5 million. Of course stringing out the process doesn’t lead to good outcomes. To use advisors or contacts to help them build executive-level relationships.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2010

In billing we literally started thinking about all of the types of bills that would be generated for customers: full payment, partial payment, split payment, senior discount, student discount, level pay plan, etc. He coached me that I had to start with the answers. That alone will help us solve the problems.&#. discuss.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

While I do agree that many attributes of a good entrepreneur, such as curiosity, confidence and determination, are largely determined by early-life experiences, a good education is critical in understanding the elements of creating a business and wooing customers. Practical business courses are better than an advanced degree or MBA.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

In fact, most employee training courses recommend the distance if the work relationship crosses management levels, and most management policies strictly forbid fraternizing with the team. in sociology, and is a coach and speaker on work issues and friendship. Of course, all these things can happen in any workship.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2019

As an advisor to entrepreneurs for many years, I strongly disagree, and still see the value of at least combining intuition with logical analysis, as we face customers and markets driven by relationships, emotions, and unpredictable social trends. Then your intuitive forces will help you reach a balanced decision.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The creators of the renowned StartupWeekend — a place where random ad hoc teams work frantically for 54 hours to build a demo of a new business and then complete for fame and fortune — have picked up where StartupWeekend left off and have birthed a new course for entrepreneurs who need to level up called StartupWeekend Next.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

But of course all of these things are intertwined. We try to hire deeply analytical associates to can help companies problem solve and who make us better investors. Obviously you need to be mentally flexible enough to spot if your instincts were wrong and a change of course is necessary. That’s healthy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Of course, not every entrepreneur wants to tackle this challenge. Of course, that means a new level of risk, giving up some control, and a new business plan. Hire more help than helpers. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships. There is no free lunch.

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