Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

As a mentor and advisor to entrepreneurs and startups, and an angel investor, my passion is to find and nurture those entrepreneurs with innovative business ideas and acumen, to make them into successful business owners. Business owners get their satisfaction from happy customers and happy stakeholders. Startup and development stage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

He went on to start many successful companies, including General Electric. You will learn to recognize that some friends and colleagues are always downers, and get their satisfaction from snuffing out your aspirations through negative thinking. Don’t let anyone kill your dreams and passion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2021

In my role as mentor to business professionals, I often get the question about your potential of going out on your own as an entrepreneur, versus your current role of working for a boss at an established company. Able to marshal people and other support resources. A new business is never a single person operation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2022

Yet I find, as a mentor and outside consultant, that many of you focus only on working conditions and compensation as the key factors determining team engagement , health, and productivity. In business, this is all about the company values and purpose that give meaning and direction to your team. Occupational satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2023

Most companies I work with, like yours, are still reeling from the effects of COVID-19, the rise of inflation, and talent shortages. By demonstrating positivity and mentoring, you can make collaboration and connecting with others a productive and enjoyable experience, rather than a burden. Act fast and lead with a strong calm purpose.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The result is fewer and fewer new ideas are volunteered by prospective leaders and key team members, and the business suffers from poor customer satisfaction or loss of market share. Your challenge is to show examples of forward-thinking companies that are ahead by doing things differently.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2023

A business entity has to be created and real resources applied. The best entrepreneurs relish the challenges, and get great satisfaction from overcoming and learning from adversity. Ask for help from advisors and mentor your team. Venture where no business has gone before. They enjoy the journey, as well as the destination.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Many entrepreneurs I have mentored make big mistakes in this area, by hiring low-cost friends and family, with minimal skills or training, and expecting them to have the same work ethic , passion, and business knowledge as the founder. Customers won’t know that vendors are not employees of your company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2022

He assures us that these apply to an external crisis that you have no control over, or an internal screwup, or just the kinds of growing pains that hit every company: Keep your focus on how to fix the problem. Provide tools and resources as required. Look for a mentor, or expert in this area, and ask their advice.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2020

As a mentor and advisor to entrepreneurs and startups, and an angel investor, my passion is to find and nurture those entrepreneurs with innovative business ideas and acumen, to make them into successful business owners. Business owners get their satisfaction from happy customers and happy stakeholders. Startup and development stage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2022

Dini, tied together several threads I have often seen in my own experience of mentoring and helping aspiring entrepreneurs. They love the continuous hunt, for investment capital, resources, talent, and new markets. Only a few of these slide into farming, as the company grows in employees and products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

A business entity has to be created and real resources applied. The best entrepreneurs relish the challenges, and get great satisfaction from overcoming and learning from adversity. Ask for help from advisors and mentor your team. Venture where no business has gone before. They enjoy the journey, as well as the destination.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2020

I’m convinced that’s why most mature companies are slowing down or buying their innovation through acquisition, rather than building it. Seek out experts and return with ideas and resources. Progress on the learning curve is their satisfaction. They are not afraid to act boldly, and tend to recover quickly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2020

As a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, I’m always surprised by the fact that some never seem to be able to that first startup going, while many others never seem to stop, starting their second or third initiative before the first one is fully hatched. The best way to start is to enable employee decision making on customer satisfaction issues.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2020

There are also many more stories of companies that pivoted too late. Increase you focus on coaching, training, and mentoring. Every founder has a story about the pivot that made their business, such as Starbucks switching to selling coffee from expresso makers, and Flickr from an online game to photo sharing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Dini, tied together several threads I have often seen in my own experience of mentoring and helping aspiring entrepreneurs. They love the continuous hunt, for investment capital, resources, talent, and new markets. Only a few of these slide into farming, as the company grows in employees and products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Mike uses his own experience as a recovering workaholic building two multimillion-dollar companies to net out seven steps in his transformation. Only then can you start to adjust your time and your company to let it run without your constant involvement. Identify a single key function to your company’s success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2015

As a mentor and advisor to entrepreneurs and startups, and an Angel investor, my passion is to find and nurture those entrepreneurs with innovative business ideas and acumen, to make them into successful business owners. Business owners get their satisfaction from happy customers and happy stakeholders. Startup and development stage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2018

For example, according to recent research from Bain & Company , Apple, Netflix, Google, and Dell employees are 40 percent more productive than the average, even though they are no smarter or more experienced. No one can be a top performer without the resources necessary to get the job done.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2015

As an advisor and mentor to startups, I try to make sure entrepreneurs understand both the pros and cons of an IPO as an exit strategy. As a public company executive, your management style, and even your personal life, is subject to extensive scrutiny by stock analysts and stockholders. Doubling or more of overhead expenses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

As a result, there have also been many new resources and mentors popping up specifically aimed at women. But according to a recent book by Adelaide Lancaster and Amy Abrams, “ The Big Enough Company ,” based on years of helping women entrepreneurs, the road to success for women does involve its own unique set of demons.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

As an advisor and mentor to entrepreneurs, I have seen beginners who quickly accelerate their proficiency and adopt the mindset, skills, rules, and emotional principles to become superstars. Yet they respect this valuable resource so much that they never use it lightly, always doing their own research first.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2016

As a mentor and advisor to entrepreneurs and startups, and an Angel investor, my passion is to find and nurture those entrepreneurs with innovative business ideas and acumen, to make them into successful business owners. Business owners get their satisfaction from happy customers and happy stakeholders. Startup and development stage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2017

With the cost of entry at an all-time low, and the odds of success equally low, more and more entrepreneurs are starting multiple companies concurrently. They skip from one to the next, providing expert guidance and money, getting their satisfaction (and reward) from the best of the best. Advisors and mentors are busy people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2014

I’m convinced that’s why most mature companies are slowing down or buying their innovation through acquisition, rather than building it. Seek out experts and return with ideas and resources. Progress on the learning curve is their satisfaction. They are not afraid to act boldly, and tend to recover quickly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2015

Dini, tied together several threads I have often seen in my own experience of mentoring and helping aspiring entrepreneurs. They love the continuous hunt, for investment capital, resources, talent, and new markets. Only a few of these slide into farming, as the company grows in employees and products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2013

With the cost of entry at an all-time low, and the odds of success equally low, more and more entrepreneurs are starting multiple companies concurrently. They skip from one to the next, providing expert guidance and money, getting their satisfaction (and reward) from the best of the best. Advisors and mentors are busy people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

A business entity has to be created and real resources applied. The best entrepreneurs relish the challenges, and get great satisfaction from overcoming and learning from adversity. Ask for help from advisors and mentor your team. Venture where no business has gone before. They enjoy the journey, as well as the destination.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2018

I’m convinced that’s why most mature companies are slowing down or buying their innovation through acquisition, rather than building it. Seek out experts and return with ideas and resources. Progress on the learning curve is their satisfaction. They are not afraid to act boldly, and tend to recover quickly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2014

Dini, tied together several threads I have often seen in my own experience of mentoring and helping aspiring entrepreneurs. They love the continuous hunt, for investment capital, resources, talent, and new markets. Only a few of these slide into farming, as the company grows in employees and products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

In reality, business success and satisfaction is about doing the right things at the right time, which requires leadership and coaching. Most companies still operate around a set of related coaching myths I saw described well in a new book, “ The Power of People Skills ,” by Trevor Throness.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2015

For example, hydrogen-fueled engines were invented over a century ago, with a continuing promise of breathing air and exhaling pure water vapor and having over 200 companies active in the hydrogen sector today. Focus on advancing return on investment, rather than state of the art.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Dini, tied together several threads I have often seen in my own experience of mentoring and helping aspiring entrepreneurs. They love the continuous hunt, for investment capital, resources, talent, and new markets. Only a few of these slide into farming, as the company grows in employees and products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

I’m convinced that’s why most mature companies are slowing down or buying their innovation through acquisition, rather than building it. Seek out experts and return with ideas and resources. Progress on the learning curve is their satisfaction. They are not afraid to act boldly, and tend to recover quickly.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

My internal compass has always steered me strongly toward the belief that founders who can scale with their startup companies are better to back that founders who eventually need to hire a CEO. For the entire first year after I funded the company he refused to take a salary and I had to admonish him to make sure he paid his expenses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2010

Quite possibly your perception is the young adult working dutifully in the company mailroom. More and more, they choose to intern at a dynamic small company or startup. Startup companies foster a creative spirit. Satisfaction vs. Stress. That stereotype may be changing. Confidence vs. Questions. Creativity vs. Chores.

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