Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2022

Too many customers have long felt distanced from many successful brands, seeing them as closed and mysterious environments, focused only on profits and killing competitors. These are responding to the demands of this new world for collaboration, trust, and transparency. Shared leadership (member and customer led).

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Organization Social Media Examples Custom 126

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

For example, a while back a passionate entrepreneur approached me with an innovative solution for reducing world hunger, but hadn’t focused on the fact that hungry people often don’t have any money, and governments are not easy customers. Find market evidence of customers with means who are willing to pay for a solution.

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Tips Startup Satisfaction Ideas 80

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

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. A first step is empowering yourself to achieve success and feel satisfaction from doing your job. Don’t let anyone kill your dreams and passion.

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Startup Satisfaction Summary Coach 122

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2022

Passion is great, but it must be backed by data, confirming a real problem and customers willing and able to pay for your solution. Recognize limited resources. Able to maintain customer trust and team confidence. I look for an intent and an ability to generate trust by delighting customers, as well as your team.

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Startup Competition Coach Satisfaction 143

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. Direct customer-facing non-technical roles should be the last ones outsourced. Startups all need that flexibility.

Outsource 123

Outsource Startup Technical Review Training 123

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2021

That takes focus, resolve, resources, and problem solving to make it happen. In reality, every startup brings new unknowns, new people, new competitors, and new customers. Starting a new business does put you in control, but you will face a harrowing new set of demands from partners, investors, suppliers, and customers.

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Entrepreneur Ideas Examples Satisfaction 171

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2019

The canvas is a visual chart with elements describing your value proposition, structure, finances, and customers, to help companies identify and align business activities. I look for evidence of the nine major elements of the model canvas, as paraphrased here from the author’s key points and how they apply to teams: Customer segments.

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Berkonomics

MAY 2, 2013

The bottleneck itself strains to keep up with demand, often to the point of reducing its own efficiency in the process of attempting to keep up with demand. The effect of your action is magnified several-fold at the output stage of your business, leading to increased customer satisfaction and increased profits.

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Organization Demand Satisfaction Training 222

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2021

Look for validation from your mainstream customers. No matter how passionately you believe that everyone needs one, and positive feedback from friends and early adopters (false positives), before you invest in scaling the business, make sure you set and meet good metrics in cost of customer acquisition, recurring sales, and margin.

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Technical Review Case Study Mentor Software Review 131

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2023

Obviously, it’s not that simple, but making the right first impression is critical for an entrepreneur, not just with investors, but also with partners, customers, and even yourself. Great entrepreneurs seek out critical customers and industry experts, and actively listen, but are not afraid to trust their own judgment as well.

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Entrepreneur Startup Activity Ideas 70

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2022

In the rush of a startup, it’s tempting to start spending the money you expect any day from a rich uncle or a major new customer. Many entrepreneurs have destroyed a strategic alliance, an investor relationship, or lost a key customer by jumping in with harsh words after a bad day at home or at the office. Marty Zwilling.

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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. What you don’t expect is to feel out of control , or to always be fighting the many demands for your time. You need all the positive traction you can get to survive and prosper.

Entrepreneur 122

Entrepreneur Startup Course Examples 122

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2020

In the rush of a startup, it’s tempting to start spending the money you expect any day from a rich uncle or a major new customer. Many entrepreneurs have destroyed a strategic alliance, an investor relationship, or lost a key customer by jumping in with harsh words after a bad day at home or at the office. Marty Zwilling.

Startup 125

Startup Technical Review Entrepreneur Custom 125

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Today, customers and future managers put a higher value on relationships, and expect to know you from industry conferences, social media, or recommendations from peers. As a business, you should always be looking for your next customer, as well as satisfying your current one. Walk away from a bad role or customer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Too many customers have long felt distanced from many successful brands, seeing them as closed and mysterious environments, focused only on profits and killing competitors. These are responding to the demands of this new world for collaboration, trust, and transparency. Shared leadership (member and customer led).

Organization 52

Organization Social Media Examples Custom 52

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2015

Too many customers have long felt distanced from many successful brands, seeing them as closed and mysterious environments, focused only on profits and killing competitors. These are responding to the demands of this new world for collaboration, trust, and transparency. Shared leadership (member and customer led).

Startup 99

Startup Organization Social Media Custom 99

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2017

The canvas is a visual chart with elements describing your value proposition, structure, finances, and customers, to help companies identify and align business activities. I look for evidence of the nine major elements of the model canvas, as paraphrased here from the author’s key points and how they apply to teams: Customer segments.

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Funding Startup Activity Custom 57

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

Too many customers have long felt distanced from many successful brands, seeing them as closed and mysterious environments, focused only on profits and killing competitors. These are responding to the demands of this new world for collaboration, trust, and transparency. Shared leadership (member and customer led).

Organization 57

Organization Social Media Custom Customer 57

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2014

Too many customers have long felt distanced from many successful brands, seeing them as closed and mysterious environments, focused only on profits and killing competitors. These are responding to the demands of this new world for collaboration, trust, and transparency. Shared leadership (member and customer led).

Organization 93

Organization Social Media Custom Customer 93

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

In the rush of a startup, it’s tempting to start spending the money you expect any day from a rich uncle or a major new customer. Many entrepreneurs have destroyed a strategic alliance, an investor relationship, or lost a key customer by jumping in with harsh words after a bad day at home or at the office. Marty Zwilling.

Entrepreneur 109

Entrepreneur Technical Review Startup Satisfaction 109

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

They had the huge financial and technical resources of a large company, and they had the right dreams, but they also had a set of challenges that most entrepreneurs don’t have to deal with: Team members are not selected based on entrepreneurial acumen. Every such deal was an exception. A single-minded focus and commitment is hard to maintain.

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IBM IBM Entrepreneur Technical Review 85

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2016

Moonshots are simply efforts that demand breakthroughs that are not possible within business-as-usual practices. These could include customer penetration, revenue growth, budget guidelines, and industry visibility. In addition, you will like the exhilaration and satisfaction that comes with a successful moonshot.

Startup 56

Startup Metrics Entrepreneur Resource 56

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2015

In the rush of a startup, it’s tempting to start spending the money you expect any day from a rich uncle or a major new customer. Many entrepreneurs have destroyed a strategic alliance, an investor relationship, or lost a key customer by jumping in with harsh words after a bad day at home or at the office. Marty Zwilling.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Entrepreneur Startup Satisfaction 60

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2018

In the rush of a startup, it’s tempting to start spending the money you expect any day from a rich uncle or a major new customer. Many entrepreneurs have destroyed a strategic alliance, an investor relationship, or lost a key customer by jumping in with harsh words after a bad day at home or at the office. Marty Zwilling.

Technical Review 63

Technical Review Entrepreneur Startup Custom 63

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Too many entrepreneurs develop a new product without regard to market demand, then build an entire strategy based on creating a need, rather than acting on an existing market need. Here are a few thoughts on a process that will keep you on the right track: Get real customer input first. These don’t get funded. Quantify the pain points.

Technology 91

Technology Funding Competition Entrepreneur 91

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Too many entrepreneurs develop a new product without regard to market demand, then build an entire strategy based on creating a need, rather than acting on an existing market need. Here are a few thoughts on a process that will keep you on the right track: Get real customer input first. These don’t get funded. Quantify the pain points.

Funding 88

Funding Entrepreneur Competition Pricing 88

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

You get the personal satisfaction of making something out of almost nothing. As your services gain demand, your time becomes more valuable and you can charge more. Ask satisfied customers to spread the word on yelp, tripadvisor, Angieslist, etc., Customer service is free. You get to call the shots.

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Startup Capital Blogging Ideas 92