Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2019

Team members want development plus satisfaction. They demand to be valued as individuals, and coached to understand and build their strengths, rather than treated as soldiers and directed to march into battle. They want ongoing conversations, not just annual reviews. They want personal and career development.

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Coach Technical Review Satisfaction Examples 95

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

My simple answer is that they keep their focus on customers, rather than technology. They present a convincing story that every entrepreneur has the same potential, but most get sidetracked and bogged down by their technology, competitors, and internal organization. Your future satisfaction and success likely depends on your answer.

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Marketing Technical Review Customer Custom 123

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2013

Train them fully, give them authority, make them accountable, and tie their pay to customer satisfaction. Leaders have found that keeping everyone on top of changes in technology, competition, and customer demands is critical to success. Make sure you know and communicate well exactly what you mean by high-quality service.

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Customer Custom Startup Services 92

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2021

New entrepreneurs, especially technical ones, are excited by early adopters, and tend to focus on their feedback, which will always suggest more product features and options. Ongoing momentum requires a move to mainstream, or even late adopters, who demand simplicity in your base function. Focus on the mainstream customer majority.

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Technical Review Technical Advisors Startup Mentor 160

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2022

If your product is really new and disruptive, make sure you have supply to meet the demand at rollout, and a patent to prevent others from jumping in quickly. Underestimate the importance of due diligence. Prioritize your tasks, take advantage of technology, and constantly optimize your processes. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Technical Review Entrepreneur Customer 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

Over time, I have collected a list of new business attributes that go beyond the initial idea or solution, which often are more critical to long-term success and satisfaction. Be customer focused, not technology focused. Beware of the allure and demands of early adopters. Solutions and inventions alone do not make a business.

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Tips Startup Satisfaction Ideas 80

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2020

If your product is really new and disruptive, make sure you have supply to meet the demand at rollout, and a patent to prevent others from jumping in quickly. Underestimate the importance of due diligence. Prioritize your tasks, take advantage of technology, and constantly optimize your processes. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Technical Review Entrepreneur Customer 125

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

For IBM, the Personal Computer was a paradigm shift from their big business legacy, built with new technologies for totally new markets, and battleships turn very slowly. The culture of a large technology company is to rely on internal development or large, stable, and proven external vendors. Every such deal was an exception.

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IBM IBM Entrepreneur Technical Review 85

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

If your product is really new and disruptive, make sure you have supply to meet the demand at rollout, and a patent to prevent others from jumping in quickly. Never underestimate the importance of due diligence. Prioritize your tasks, take advantage of technology, and constantly optimize your processes. Marty Zwilling.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Startup Satisfaction 109

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2018

If your product is really new and disruptive, make sure you have supply to meet the demand at rollout, and a patent to prevent others from jumping in quickly. Underestimate the importance of due diligence. Prioritize your tasks, take advantage of technology, and constantly optimize your processes. Marty Zwilling.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Startup Customer 63

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2015

If your product is really new and disruptive, make sure you have supply to meet the demand at rollout, and a patent to prevent others from jumping in quickly. Underestimate the importance of due diligence. Prioritize your tasks, take advantage of technology, and constantly optimize your processes. Marty Zwilling.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Startup Satisfaction 60