Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Out of curiosity, I often ask aspiring entrepreneurs like you, who come to me for help, what drives them to take on the workload and risk of a new startup. Of course, drivers have to be backed up by some realities, like necessary resources, adequate skills, relentless determination, and a market of people interested in supporting your dream.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Each of these will help you in achieving success and satisfaction while tackling your toughest business issues: Stop attacking symptoms – dig first for the root cause. A broken process or a subtle quality issue can generate a flood of customer satisfaction problems, cost overruns, and loss of market share.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2021

The best part of being an entrepreneur is having the independence to make your own decisions, the flexibility for a better work/life balance, and personal satisfaction from driving change. You can’t build a great company without help. But nobody said it would be easy. People – Surround yourself with great people. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2021

Helping your team motivates them to drive your business. That takes less time and gives everyone greater satisfaction. The most successful managers I know spend up to fifteen percent of their time each week with each team member, coaching them, motivating them, and helping to resolve problems.

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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. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2020

It takes more than passion and a course on business basics. Help entrepreneurs with constant learning. Business advisors need to be ready to help at every stage, and I see it beginning to happen. I want to tell them to just start anywhere, but I realize that most have no idea where anywhere is.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2021

Unfortunately, these goals are often mutually exclusive, and focusing on the wrong ones won’t bring you that business success and satisfaction you crave. Of course, if you wait for the perfect time, you may never start. Is monetary return or helping others your priority? Timing is critical for every startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2023

Both ends of this spectrum fail to bring long-term satisfaction or success. For example, the handmade-item platform Etsy sponsors free entrepreneurship courses for underemployed and unemployed people, including assistance in setting up a store on Etsy, thus adding more artists and artisan sellers to their platform.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Of course, this can be positive if you really need the help and experience in making key decisions. Pivoting early brings satisfaction and saves money and time, except when you don’t pivot due to investor evidence required, and the pain of explaining your mistakes. Investors want board seats and a vote on key decisions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2022

Of course, these are great, but they don’t happen without enlightened leadership coming first. Leaders today must always project confidence and help others develop confidence, courage, and curiosity. I believe that business cultures are a function of people and leadership, more than programs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The more successes you can help them create, the more chances they will have to interpret these wins as permanent, pervasive, and personal. Measure and measure again, and be quick to course correct. Don’t confuse engagement or satisfaction surveys with culture surveys. Transform team member mindsets, behavior, and results.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Of course, this kind of leadership has a big risk, since you have no one to blame if you get it wrong. It can help you be right when, without expert help, you might fail. This may mean attending industry conferences, taking college courses, or reading some key books. Solidify and demonstrate your personal values.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2019

Unfortunately, work and satisfaction have become an oxymoron in many businesses. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Both ends of this spectrum fail to bring long-term satisfaction or success. For example, the handmade-item platform Etsy sponsors free entrepreneurship courses for underemployed and unemployed people, including assistance in setting up a store on Etsy, thus adding more artists and artisan sellers to their platform.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2020

Of course, most of you expect that raising money will be difficult, as well as staving off competitors, and handling that occasional toxic customer. There is no way to predict where and how this will occur, but it should help to realize that it does happen, and you should not assume you are the cause.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Identifying your goal will help you avoid getting pulled into any drama and stay focused on constructive tactics. Don’t let any hidden agendas or ulterior motives, such as political strategy, throw you off course. When seeking help on an issue, seek out people who are constructive, and stay positive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2020

The crowd gets the satisfaction of helping, with minimal risk, and no expectation of any high return. Of course, there are thousands of other companies that don’t achieve their minimum goal, requiring all contributions to be returned. Product pre-order model. Donation good-cause model. Interest on debt model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2023

I like her recommendation of five discrete steps to help you think bigger, and innovate more successfully in your business, as well as your private life. There is no guarantee, of course, that any combination or process will work, but thinking bigger about any new idea will certainly improve your odds and satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The more successes you can help them create, the more chances they will have to interpret these wins as permanent, pervasive, and personal. Measure and measure again, and be quick to course correct. Don’t confuse engagement or satisfaction surveys with culture surveys. Transform team member mindsets, behavior, and results.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Goal Setting and Making Plans There’s a lot of content that already exists around the basics of goal setting, i.e., SMART goals: Specific Measurable Attainable Realistic Timely However, it’s far easier to teach someone about these than it is to help them create the goals themselves. Yes, I’m yelling – it’s really that bad.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2023

Of course, starting and running your own business comes with financial and personal risks, so I always recommend that you do your homework first, and follow some tried and proven strategies to improve your odds of success. But if you do it right, the joys and satisfaction, as well as financial returns, of your success can’t be beat.

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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. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2023

Of course, margin and profitability are important, but must be committed to adding more value to the lives of your clients, and making the world a better place. Seek customer feedback on ways to improve value and satisfaction. Define and focus on a mission to add value. Make customer experience your key priority.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Based on my own experience in large companies, as well as small ones, here are seven key strategies I recommend for building the teams and culture that will drive business success: Admit to yourself and others that you need help. We all need to be humble and recognize that what we need to know about technology and the market changes daily.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2022

Of course, such actions are equally applicable to businesses at any stage. These events are also opportunities to get a better handle on customer requirements, as well as measure your customer satisfaction and market trends. At least, these professional networking events allow you to get out of the office and meet people who can help.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2023

To compensate, every visionary entrepreneur needs to find a partner who gets great satisfaction from results, and loves the discipline of making things happen on a day-to-day basis. Of course, many will argue that the visionary entrepreneurs can simply fix their shortcomings, and thus save resources by satisfying both roles.

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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. Freelancers and consultants have to demonstrate results, without training and mentoring, so they can help you more quickly and probably at a lower total cost.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Created by consultants to generate additional fees, such scores attempt to rate a company’s overall customer satisfaction. The higher your company’s NPS, allegedly the higher your customer satisfaction. A binary question will help you identify which customers are more likely to lead to future prospects and which will not.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Of course, you can be overly confident or unrealistic in your expectations, without the skills or plans to run a business. I often hear entrepreneurs talk about wanting to get rich quickly, when I know that money is not usually the key to satisfaction or happiness. Always be your own best (and most honest) friend.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

While this approach appears to cost more on the surface, it often actually costs you less, when you consider the hidden costs of rework, poor customer satisfaction, employee management, and training required. Most freelancers are already experts and confident from previous assignments, and that image will help your business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 1, 2021

Of course, any highly emotional and unmanaged conflict can certainly lead to chaos and a dysfunctional organization. For example, in a conflict over the right branding logo , it may help to understand who and how the ultimate decision will be made, including key elements driving the decision, such as targeted customers and competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2021

Of course, discovering your entrepreneur type is only the beginning. Ultimately, most get the best help from business advisors and mentors. But I see a real opportunity here for every entrepreneur to optimize his impact, and his personal satisfaction, with a minimum of effort. Internal forces (your startup team).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2020

To compensate, every visionary entrepreneur needs to find a partner who gets great satisfaction from results, and loves the discipline of making things happen on a day-to-day basis. Of course, many will argue that the visionary entrepreneurs can simply fix their shortcomings, and thus save resources by satisfying both roles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2015

It takes more than passion and a course on business basics. Help entrepreneurs with constant learning. Business advisors need to be ready to help at every stage, and I see it beginning to happen. I want to tell them to just start anywhere, but I realize that most have no idea where anywhere is.

Entrepreneur 112

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Created by consultants to generate additional fees, such scores attempt to rate a company’s overall customer satisfaction. The higher your company’s NPS, allegedly the higher your customer satisfaction. A binary question will help you identify which customers are more likely to lead to future prospects and which will not.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 2, 2015

Instead of trying to teach students to be an entrepreneur, I expose my entrepreneurial students to tools that will help them solve real-world problems. My courses are rigorous and demanding. out of 5 in both Helpfulness and Clarity. I am likewise pleased that my courses have not been rated "easy," earning an overall 2.9

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Of course, these are great, but they don’t happen without enlightened leadership coming first. Leaders today must always project confidence and help others develop confidence, courage, and curiosity. I believe that business cultures are a function of people and leadership, more than programs.

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