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10 Steps To Second Stage Success For Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Hire more help than helpers. In addition to fresh products, you need people smarter than you for real help, with the right combination of skills, experience, and passion to foster and manage new growth. Managing business growth is more than metrics. Keep delivering something new and fresh. Optimize the total customer experience.

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8 Activities To Satisfy Your Boss You Are Accountable

Startup Professionals Musings

Lack of accountability can permeate an entire organization. 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. Setting your own metrics, and measuring yourself , will facilitate accountability.

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5 Keys To Leadership While Working With Remote Teams

Startup Professionals Musings

The current surge of working remotely, driven by the pandemic and international freelancing, has challenged our thinking on collaboration and leadership, both within teams and outside, to other organizations. I offer here my interpretation of her five key leadership behavior principles: Help team members find meaning with work.

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5 Ways A Startup Benefits From Dual Partner Strengths

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s true that gifted visionaries bring many good things to an organization, including big picture ideas, seeing around corners, and a hunter mentality. The organization can’t keep up the pace of change, and soon loses motivation, productivity, and all sense of where they are headed. Yet they also come with a set of shortcomings.

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7 Keys To Sustainably Enriching Your Customers’ Lives

Startup Professionals Musings

A winning linked focus example is to choose a higher purpose common to all cultures, such as protecting the environment, or helping the underprivileged. Old-fashioned surveys need help from new algorithms, data science, and digital bots. Use metrics to assess needs and growth economics. Make every customer experience memorable.

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9 Stages to Building a Robust And Rewarding Business

Startup Professionals Musings

In the spirit of helping you avoid some of our own learning experiences with startups, I will paraphrase here the nine key stages that he and I both see most businesses going through in their evolution from a startup to a successful and stable entity: You can’t sustain a business without positive cash flow. Stay in your personal sweet spot.

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5 Reasons Two Founders As A Team Are Better Than One

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s true that gifted visionaries bring many good things to an organization, including big picture ideas, seeing around corners, and a hunter mentality. The organization can’t keep up the pace of change, and soon loses motivation, productivity, and all sense of where they are headed. Yet they also come with a set of shortcomings.

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