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. Funding and rollout stage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2023

With pervasive access to social media, customers no longer differentiate poor product repair and replacement from a poor shopping experience or customer usage satisfaction. Your challenge is to excel in all elements of a customer interaction, from pre-sales to long-term advocacy and image. Inflexible processes.

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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. Only a few of these slide into farming, as the company grows in employees and products. Farmers have a narrower view of what is required, to optimize quality production, customer satisfaction, or close a sale.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2020

They include people like Sir Richard Branson , born in 1950, who has founded over 400 companies, and claims to be just getting started. Boomer investors are much more likely to get in the game with a high focus on mentoring and give-back, as well as the financial return potential. Marketing and sales to Gen-Y customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2020

These will almost always be related to sales and marketing, since they must tie back to cash flow. There are also many more stories of companies that pivoted too late. Increase you focus on coaching, training, and mentoring. This is the stage where you move from managing by your gut to managing by numbers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

As a mentor to entrepreneurs, I often get asked for the magic that has made Amazon the world's most valuable brand , from a total unknown only twenty years ago. For example, when delivery costs and delays were still a major online sales hurdle, Amazon Prime membership was invented to offer free next day shipping.

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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. Only a few of these slide into farming, as the company grows in employees and products. Farmers have a narrower view of what is required, to optimize quality production, customer satisfaction, or close a sale.

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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. Funding and rollout stage.

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Entrepreneur Ideas Satisfaction Summary 109

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

They include people like Sir Richard Branson , born in 1950, who has founded over 400 companies, and claims to be just getting started. Boomer investors are much more likely to get in the game with a high focus on mentoring and give-back, as well as the financial return potential. Marketing and sales to Gen-Y customers.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Software Review Report 106

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2018

In top current companies, such as Google, Apple, and Netflix, cultural strategies that include greater employee freedom and fostering creativity are the norm. Thus creating the right company culture must be a top priority of every entrepreneur and business leader. Recruit, mentor, and promote talent to highlight opportunity.

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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. Funding and rollout 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. They need your mentoring, tools, and historical data to be a top performer. Yet in the long run, you get what you pay for.

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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. Only a few of these slide into farming, as the company grows in employees and products. Farmers have a narrower view of what is required, to optimize quality production, customer satisfaction, or close a sale.

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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

MAY 12, 2014

Dini, tied together several threads I have often seen in my own experience of mentoring and helping aspiring entrepreneurs. Only a few of these slide into farming, as the company grows in employees and products. Farmers have a narrower view of what is required, to optimize quality production, customer satisfaction, or close a sale.

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Entrepreneur Startup News Slides 109

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. Only a few of these slide into farming, as the company grows in employees and products. Farmers have a narrower view of what is required, to optimize quality production, customer satisfaction, or close a sale.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2016

Richard Branson’s adventurer escapades are legendary, while at the same time founding over 400 companies. That team has to cover the range from top designers, savvy financial managers, to good marketing and sales leaders. They get their satisfaction from the journey, as well as the destination.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 20, 2013

As the NBA playoffs closes to an end in a grueling road to Game 7 between Miami Heats and San Antonio Spurs, it would behoove every startup founder to learn from key elements and strategies of both teams, as lessons from the sport of basketball can directly translate to the success of a startup company. Who is the sales person?

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 3, 2015

Many women rose to the top of their careers only to discover how unsatisfying, soul-draining and unhealthy a lifestyle it was and completely changed careers to find satisfaction doing something completely different where they once again became successful, but in a more balanced manner.

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