Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2021

By definition, all of you entrepreneurs are leaders, by taking the initiative to start a new company. Yet I have learned over the years as a startup advisor that all business leaders are not the same. You generally don’t fix things by throwing them away and starting over. Create innovative change from existing resources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2022

Most entrepreneurs struggle with many startup founders quandaries in building their business, and these key dilemmas are probably the biggest source of pain and failure for the entrepreneur lifestyle. People may jump into the lifestyle to be their own boss, achieve great wealth, start a new trend, or all the above.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

After many years working in business and investing in startups, I’m convinced that the primary reason for new business and career failures is NOT a lack of skill or money, but people giving up too quickly on their dreams and goals. He went on to start many successful companies, including General Electric.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2022

As a team member, low self-esteem leads to low confidence, poor productivity, and no job satisfaction. Once you have clarified your personal definition of startup success, examine where you currently are relative to where you want to be. Identify and redirect unhealthy competition and comparisons. Fortunately, both can be fixed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2012

You hear a lot of talk these days about the importance of customer satisfaction, but customer loyalty is the real win. Herein lies an opportunity for startups to beat the big guys. Whatever the reasons for the change, and there are many, it represents a big opportunity to the small businesses and startups who recognize it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2023

The challenge is to find the time and initiative to keep up with the information wave, and be able to curate the data into knowledge that must be learned, unlearned, or relearned. With this principle, real entrepreneurs start with a conviction that new learning will reveal flaws in existing models, leading to new opportunities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Most entrepreneurs start from a base of one or two co-founders, and their vision and focus is on developing an innovative solution, rather than developing people. They do believe it can be accomplished, with the six specific steps paraphrased here: Culture starts by thinking different and thinking big at the top. Marty Zwilling

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2022

Even entrepreneurs who have built many startups, or sold their last one for millions of dollars, know they make occasional people leadership mistakes. These can trip up even the best, often at the cost of more than a good night’s sleep. A good fight in business is called healthy competition. Check all your emotions at the gate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2022

It’s always been tough to start a new business, even when the bottom line was just making a profit to stay alive. The real challenge with the triple bottom line is that these three separate accounts cannot be easily added up. Starting and running any business is hard work, so the last thing you need is “success” with no satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Everyone on the startup team knows there is no buffer, and no personal isolation from impact based on your job description that can save you. Risks to the business drift off their radar screen, resulting in poor business decisions, as well as less job satisfaction and declining professional success. Yet nothing stands still.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2022

In these days of global competition via multiple channels, you need continuous marketing to find more customers. Entice advocates and influencers to help you. Influencers are recognized experts and pseudo celebrities who can pick favorite products or start new trends. Be proactive is reaching out for support and help.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2022

In my own experience as a startup advisor and mentor, I find that entrepreneurs who can’t attract and maintain a highly motivated team rarely even get off the ground. Thus if you want to change the world with your new business, you need to follow the example of startups like Zappos , which hires according to cultural fit first.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2022

Discourage internal team competition and silos. It is up to you as a leader to define and communicate the company shared values that pull a team together and allow them to disagree without fighting. In this age of world-wide markets, you need all the help you can get to attract loyal customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Most entrepreneurs start from a base of one or two co-founders, and their vision and focus is on developing an innovative solution, rather than developing people. They do believe it can be accomplished, with the six specific steps paraphrased here: Culture starts by thinking different and thinking big at the top. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Even entrepreneurs who have built many startups, or sold their last one for millions of dollars, know they make occasional people leadership mistakes. These can trip up even the best, often at the cost of more than a good night’s sleep. A good fight in business is called healthy competition. Check all your emotions at the gate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

As a team member, low self-esteem leads to low confidence, poor productivity, and no job satisfaction. Once you have clarified your personal definition of startup success, examine where you currently are relative to where you want to be. Identify and redirect unhealthy competition and comparisons. Fortunately, both can be fixed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2020

No matter what people may proclaim, everyone in business is looking to achieve the highest possible level of satisfaction and financial success in their career. Maintain a meaningful competitive advantage. Entrepreneurial thinking is focused on dominating a segment of a competitive market. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Social media is so pervasive in today’s world that every entrepreneur believes instinctively that they know how to use it for their startup. Many soon find that what you do in a personal context doesn’t necessarily translate to your business, and measuring business value is quite different from measuring personal satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2019

Most entrepreneurs struggle with many startup founders quandaries in building their business, and these key dilemmas are probably the biggest source of pain and failure for the entrepreneur lifestyle. People may jump into the lifestyle to be their own boss, achieve great wealth, start a new trend, or all the above.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2021

People-centric leaders realize that the right motivated and accountable people are their real competitive advantage. Your team, properly selected, trained, and engaged, can focus on tomorrow’s requirements, learn from mistakes, and implement the constant improvements required to stay competitive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2023

Seek customer feedback on ways to improve value and satisfaction. Some market leaders have found that adding a focus on a higher cause, like helping the needy or saving the environment, can magnify your value in the eyes of customers. Measure progress through metrics on sales, revenue, and penetration.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2020

The challenge is to find the time and initiative to keep up with the information wave, and be able to curate the data into knowledge that must be learned, unlearned, or relearned. With this principle, real entrepreneurs start with a conviction that new learning will reveal flaws in existing models, leading to new opportunities.

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Social Media Startup Education Entrepreneur 127

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. Consider getting the help of outside consultants and advisors to overcome obstacles. People perceive that this idea has been tried and failed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Most entrepreneurs see their new venture as a fun adventure, until the pressures of a cash flow crisis, or a manufacturing quality problem, or a major customer satisfaction problem hits. Here are the top approaches I recommend, and the entrepreneur mindsets that I see in survivors: Evaluate new competitive threats as new opportunities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2021

A winning linked focus example is to choose a higher purpose common to all cultures, such as protecting the environment, or helping the underprivileged. Your goal must be to make every aspect of a customer interaction a joy to both you and them, starting from the shopping experience, to the sales close, to delivery and service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2019

It’s always been tough to start a new business, even when the bottom line was just making a profit to stay alive. The real challenge with the triple bottom line is that these three separate accounts cannot be easily added up. Starting and running any business is hard work, so the last thing you need is “success” with no satisfaction.

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Startup Entrepreneur Capital Examples 93

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2019

I’m convinced that is why many great business leaders remember working their way up the ranks. For example, Howard Schultz was not the founder of Starbucks, but started his career in one of their first 60 shops. This starts with picking your roles carefully – to be in the right place at the right time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Everyone on the startup team knows there is no buffer, and no personal isolation from impact based on your job description that can save you. Risks to the business drift off their radar screen, resulting in poor business decisions, as well as less job satisfaction and declining professional success. Yet nothing stands still.

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Satisfaction Organization Customer Custom 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 23, 2021

For example, I commonly see metrics to keep track of revenue per employee, overtime, and absenteeism, but I don’t often see measures of overall customer satisfaction with individual employees. In the old days, key employees were rotated through all roles as part of their training, to help them understand the business.

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Customer Custom Technical Review Metrics 147

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2023

How will work productivity and quality be impacted, and what effect will it have on personal careers, job satisfaction, and work-life balance? In my experience, a great office culture will enhance every team member productivity, as well as personal satisfaction. Help your team generate team rituals and encourage networking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As a startup advisor, I see many aspiring entrepreneurs whose primary motivation seems to be to work part time, or get rich quick, or avoid anyone else telling them what to do. Even in chaotic startup environments, you normally finish required tasks on time and to high standards. You are driven to compete and win in the marketplace.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2019

Even entrepreneurs who have built many startups, or sold their last one for millions of dollars, know they make occasional people leadership mistakes. These can trip up even the best, often at the cost of more than a good night’s sleep. A good fight in business is called healthy competition. Check all your emotions at the gate.

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Startup Case Study Competition Entrepreneur 93

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 9, 2012

Pressure Helps You Break Through Your Breakdowns. "Mickey Properly channeled, stress can help generate the energy and creativity required to move you from one breakthrough to another. Friendly constituents will not sustain your startup. Startups cannot afford to mistake what has gone before for what lies ahead.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2020

In my own experience as a startup advisor and mentor, I find that entrepreneurs who can’t attract and maintain a highly motivated team rarely even get off the ground. Thus if you want to change the world with your new business, you need to follow the example of startups like Zappos , which hires according to cultural fit first.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2022

Leadership in business starts with making good personal choices. I expect questions about how a business works, or what are best practices, but I really can’t help you with removing doubts on your abilities, or providing a sure-fire idea and formula for success in business. Think about the questions that you are asking your advisors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2013

One of the big advantages of being an entrepreneur and starting your company from scratch is that you get to set the culture, which is much easier than changing the culture of an existing business. Mission statements tend to be narrow, business oriented statements such as “Be the leader in customer satisfaction.” Train all the time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 1, 2021

To get you started on the right foot, here are the key principles that I see most often working: Make the resolution a part of a larger process. It’s up to you as a leader to understand and be able to explain all sides of an issue. Before you get too deep into an issue, make sure all parties understand the total process.

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