Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Most of the entrepreneurs I meet as an investor and advisor have no shortage of right-brain thinking, showing vision and creativity, but often don’t realize that their potential is being limited by a balancing focus on results, metrics, and customer specifics. Listen to customer feedback and tune your vision.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

Most businesses spend big money testing their brand logo, catchy marketing phrases, and demographics, but spend little time training and validating that their employees can and do deliver memorable experiences to their customers. Keep your team happy to create engaged customers. An unhappy team member can’t create an engaged customer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In my own business career, many years as a business advisor, and mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, I have validated the following strategies to practice and guide you. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2022

They want to share your satisfaction in success, maybe as a reward for their own mistakes and learning earlier in life in their own businesses. Every startup needs two or three key advisors who have the domain experience, connections, and complementary skills to guide the founders through those early crises. Manage customer service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2022

The challenge is that every new business needs to be innovative and different, in order to rise above the crowd, bring real change to the world, and give you the satisfaction you seek. Kerr, “ The Executive Checklist: A Guide for Setting Direction and Managing Change.” Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Gamification.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2013

Many entrepreneurs think that adapting to the new technologies, like smart phones and Internet commerce, are the key to attracting new customers. High-technology product startups, without customers, don’t make a business. Solis outlines the heuristics of social psychology that are key to building positive customer experiences today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2021

A community requires two-way communication and respect – including advisors, partners, and customers. Just as your business needs feedback from customers, you need regular feedback from those around you on how to do better. Strive to evolve from guru to guide, coaching others to find their own answers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

This mindset will allow you to alter your direction in the most positive way, and drive customer change rather than be driven by it. For you smart professionals with endless curiosity and a desire to learn, the current gig economy has the potential for much more personal satisfaction, growth, and success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2021

Investors expect a great return for their risk, so they look for people who can look beyond the technology and their own passion to see a customer need that perhaps even the rest of us haven’t yet envisioned. The payoff will be a heightened personal satisfaction, as well as the resources you need to make it happen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2022

It’s been happening for some time, but business changes, accelerated by the recent pandemic, have highlighted the need for all of us to review our positions, image, and satisfaction at work. Use the same mindset with new team members and customers. Try to see these as opportunities rather than problems to avoid.

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

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Steve Reich

JUNE 11, 2012

This is not an article about the high moral purpose and the nobility of listening to your customers. It is an article about how to make your company worth a fortune by listening to your customers. It gives the best customer experience of any phone. Listen to your customers and grow rich. Why does Google dominate search?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2020

They want to share your satisfaction in success, maybe as a reward for their own mistakes and learning earlier in life in their own businesses. Every startup needs two or three key advisors who have the domain experience, connections, and complementary skills to guide the founders through those early crises. Manage customer service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2021

I can provide you the basics in strategy and tactics, but I was impressed with the guidelines in a new book, “ Control the Narrative: The Executive's Guide to Building, Pivoting and Repairing Your Reputation ,” by Lida Citroen. Every customer or outside concern should be taken seriously as an opportunity to improve.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2020

For the business to prosper, every employee, and your customers, must know and relate to your core values, such as product excellence, care for the environment, and personal integrity. These are the timeless principles that must guide all hiring, marketing, and execution decisions. Build a business culture to match your core values.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2022

If you are interested in advancing your leadership, and achieving more success in this new Internet age, here are some principles to guide your focus: Foster the trend to flat teams versus vertical organizations. In this age of world-wide markets, you need all the help you can get to attract loyal customers.

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

With Generative AI and LLMs, new avenues for improving operational efficiency and user satisfaction are emerging every day. This anticipated content then serves as a query, guiding the retrieval of pertinent documents. It's a proactive approach, ensuring that the search mechanism stays a step ahead.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

The challenge is that every new business needs to be innovative and different, in order to rise above the crowd, bring real change to the world, and give you the satisfaction you seek. Kerr, “ The Executive Checklist: A Guide for Setting Direction and Managing Change.” Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Gamification.

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Technology Cloud Computing Social Media Networking 86

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2018

A guiding principle for startup success, as well as the long-term health of a mature business, is a liberal dose of innovation at the beginning, with additions of the same on a regular basis. Unfortunately, innovation means change, and most business professionals and existing customers, by default, hate change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2014

Many entrepreneurs think that adapting to the new technologies, like smart phones and Internet commerce, are the key to attracting new customers. High-technology product startups, without customers, don’t make a business. Solis outlines the heuristics of social psychology that are key to building positive customer experiences today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2017

Many entrepreneurs think that adapting to the new technologies, like smart phones and Internet commerce, are the key to attracting new customers. High-technology product startups, without customers, don’t make a business. Solis outlines the heuristics of social psychology that are key to building positive customer experiences today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2015

The challenge is that every new business needs to be innovative and different, in order to rise above the crowd, bring real change to the world, and give you the satisfaction you seek. Kerr, “ The Executive Checklist: A Guide for Setting Direction and Managing Change.” Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Gamification.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Of course, improving customer satisfaction is a goal, but the system would drill down to specific issues such as knowledge of store layout. In this post, I’m going to focus on a common model that has been part of several of the highest impact projects. For automotive sales associates, the rewards were prizes, trips, etc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2017

The challenge is that every new business needs to be innovative and different, in order to rise above the crowd, bring real change to the world, and give you the satisfaction you seek. Kerr, “ The Executive Checklist: A Guide for Setting Direction and Managing Change.” Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Gamification.

Cloud Computing 61

Cloud Computing Startup Social Media Networking 61

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

They want to share your satisfaction in success, maybe as a reward for their own mistakes and learning earlier in life in their own businesses. Every startup needs two or three key advisors who have the domain experience, connections, and complementary skills to guide the founders through those early crises. Manage customer service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

The challenge is that every new business needs to be innovative and different, in order to rise above the crowd, bring real change to the world, and give you the satisfaction you seek. Kerr, “ The Executive Checklist: A Guide for Setting Direction and Managing Change.” Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Gamification.

Cloud Computing 99

Cloud Computing Social Media Entrepreneur Networking 99

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2012

Every startup faces a myriad of challenges that are well beyond the scope of any founder, so you need a few guiding lights to illuminate the road ahead. These should be carefully selected, with a proven track record, willing and available to help, and be completely trustworthy. Make sure they are willing to check their egos at the door.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2017

Most people find it easier and quicker to just do the work themselves, than to guide someone else through the mindset and process needed. These have voracious appetites for new knowledge and self-development, and can inspire other team members to look outside the box for new levels of performance and satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2011

Every startup faces a myriad of challenges that are well beyond the scope of any founder, so you need a few guiding lights to illuminate the road ahead. These should be carefully selected, with a proven track record, willing and available to help, and be completely trustworthy. Make sure they are willing to check their egos at the door.

Startup 95

Startup Technical Review Software Review High Tech 95

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2011

Metrics-Guided. He went on to explain a bit about the customer development model from Blanks: State business model assumptions. Lean Approach. Model-Focused. Vision-Driven (You’re definitely going to need a strong vision when those sleepless nights, crying kids, and angry spouse enter the picture).

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 2, 2015

I am proud that students who express satisfaction with my classes also note that they involve a significant time commitment. I also made it clear that a healthy corporate culture can guide employees to make kind and just decisions. Of the 41 student ratings on Rate My Professor (RMP), I have earned a 4.4 for Easiness.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

You get the personal satisfaction of making something out of almost nothing. A local fishing guide might make friends with folks at the bed and breakfast, each referring clients to each other. Ask satisfied customers to spread the word on yelp, tripadvisor, Angieslist, etc., Customer service is free.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2010

Every startup faces a myriad of challenges that are well beyond the scope of any founder, so you need a few guiding lights to illuminate the road ahead. These should be carefully selected, with a proven track record, willing and available to help, and be completely trustworthy. Make sure they are willing to check their egos at the door.

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The Quigley Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2008

For instance, a VP of Operations might be bonused on 3 measurements: COGS, product shippments and customer satisfaction results. When an employee must make the inevitable trade-off between doing one thing versus another, you want the information provided by the bonus to guide his efforts. That is too many.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2022

As a long-time mentor and advisor to new business owners, I can attest to both the need for mentoring, and the satisfaction that comes from watching an aspiring but tentative entrepreneur grow into someone capable of changing the world. Good business relationships make better teams and customers. It’s hard to learn that in school.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2019

Image via Flickr by World Economic Forum As a long-time mentor and advisor to new business owners, I can attest to both the need for mentoring, and the satisfaction that comes from watching an aspiring but tentative entrepreneur grow into someone capable of changing the world. Good business relationships make better teams and customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2017

As a long-time mentor and advisor to new business owners, I can attest to both the need for mentoring, and the satisfaction that comes from watching an aspiring but tentative entrepreneur grow into someone capable of changing the world. Good business relationships make better teams and customers. It’s hard to learn that in school.

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