Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

Maybe that’s why so many entrepreneurs struggle with building a disruptive new business, where breaks from the norm are the key to success. I suspect that there are really a lot of “grown-up closet freaks” out there who could be great entrepreneurs. Establish a daily framework for action. Also connect with people you can help.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

As a consultant, I often get asked for help in mining all this data and using it for long-term success in their business. Mr. Dawson is a world-leading futurist, entrepreneur, and public speaker, who offers five key principles, which I can amplify, for turning information into value: Purpose: thriving requires an understanding of why.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I thought I’d try to offer a framework for thinking about the topic. This conversation seems to come up very frequently these days both with portfolio companies and with entrepreneurs just looking for mentorship. So here’s my framework. Are you in the “lean&# phase? So if you can take 27% dilution for $1.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2014

Maybe that’s why so many entrepreneurs struggle with building a disruptive new business, where breaks from the norm are the key to success. I suspect that there are really a lot of “grown-up closet freaks” out there who could be great entrepreneurs. Establish a daily framework for action. Also connect with people you can help.

Entrepreneur 109

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2013

Great entrepreneurs are not just idea people and then managers, they are extraordinary leaders. Yet beyond a list of noble attributes, like vision, courage, and integrity, it’s hard for them to define what separates an ordinary entrepreneur or manager from an extraordinary leader. Think about who could help you reflect-on-action.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2020

This week, Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures announced a brand new effort to provide health and wellness to the founders of companies it invests in, helping those founders with well being, mental health, stress management, coaching, and leadership development. That's the framework we've build with Evolution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2023

Finding your sweet spot as an entrepreneur needs to start with a meaningful personal purpose that is also a business opportunity. Many entrepreneurs are finding their “secret sauce” these days by combining a strong purpose with a good business opportunity. To find new work you love, it helps to do job shadowing or short term rotation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

It’s a jungle fight for survival out there for aspiring entrepreneurs of all ages and demographics. I support being socially and environmentally conscious, but you can’t help anyone else if you don’t eat. The best entrepreneurs work on making better time management a top objective. If you want to survive.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2010

It was difficult to make the transition to a “top down&# thinker but as a senior executive – and as an entrepreneur – you’re far less effective without this skill in your arsenal. That alone will help us solve the problems.&#. The book is expensive but for me personally this helped me enormously.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Finding your sweet spot as an entrepreneur needs to start with a meaningful personal purpose that is also a business opportunity. Many entrepreneurs are finding their “secret sauce” these days by combining a strong purpose with a good business opportunity. To find new work you love, it helps to do job shadowing or short term rotation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2019

Great entrepreneurs are not just idea people and then managers, they are extraordinary leaders. Yet beyond a list of noble attributes, like vision, courage, and integrity, it’s hard for them to define what separates an ordinary entrepreneur or manager from an extraordinary leader. Think about who could help you reflect-on-action.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2021

Every entrepreneur tries to maximize his startup growth by building and selling more product and services for the widest geographic area that he can support. Many entrepreneurs are paranoid about the partnership approach, and think that M&A is only an alternative for large companies who are flush with cash. Partial acquisition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2013

Most entrepreneurs I know are individually very innovative, but a successful startup can’t be a one-man show (for long). There are many resources out there to help you address team dysfunction , but very few provide much insight on a process for maximizing startup team innovation once you have the motivated people. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2022

The bad news is that it’s still a jungle fight for survival for entrepreneurs of all ages and demographics, with over 80 percent not having access to bank loans or venture capital. I support being socially and environmentally conscious, but you can’t help anyone else if you don’t eat. If you want to survive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Most entrepreneurs I know are individually very innovative, but a successful startup can’t be a one-man show (for long). There are many resources out there to help you address team dysfunction , but very few provide much insight on a process for maximizing startup team innovation once you have the motivated people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased between 2013 and 2019, from 280 out of 100,000 to 310 out of 100,000 of the adult population. Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2020

As an entrepreneur advisor, I am surprised at how often I hear the same or very similar proposals of an incremental innovation to an existing process, versus a really new or breakthrough solution. But we all know that these are not solutions by themselves, but require integration into an innovative framework to solve real customer problems.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2014

Yet many aspiring entrepreneurs I know approach it as a fun project, get-rich quick scheme, or perhaps an expensive hobby. As an entrepreneur, you need to start early to implement the discipline and business practices that will lead to success. business entrepreneur first million Scott Duffy startup' Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2016

Finding your sweet spot as an entrepreneur needs to start with a meaningful personal purpose that is also a business opportunity. Many entrepreneurs are finding their “secret sauce” these days by combining a strong purpose with a good business opportunity. To find new work you love, it helps to do job shadowing or short term rotation.

Entrepreneur 54

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Yet many aspiring entrepreneurs I know approach it as a fun project, get-rich quick scheme, or perhaps an expensive hobby. As an entrepreneur, you need to start early to implement the discipline and business practices that will lead to success. Neither of these approaches bodes well for success. Use personal credit cards for business.

Startup 122

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2012

A diligent entrepreneur should certainly work the important details for his or her startup, especially when it comes to assessing any negative fluctuations in the business. I’ve taken the liberty of extending these for entrepreneurs, based on my own experience: Showcase your creativity on the front lines.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2015

Great entrepreneurs are not just idea people and then managers, they are extraordinary leaders. Yet beyond a list of noble attributes, like vision, courage, and integrity, it’s hard for them to define what separates an ordinary entrepreneur or manager from an extraordinary leader. Think about who could help you reflect-on-action.

Product 103

Product Coach Framework Entrepreneur 103

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2017

Great entrepreneurs are not just idea people and then managers, they are extraordinary leaders. Yet beyond a list of noble attributes, like vision, courage, and integrity, it’s hard for them to define what separates an ordinary entrepreneur or manager from an extraordinary leader. Think about who could help you reflect-on-action.

Coach 64

Coach Framework Entrepreneur Tool 64

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2017

Maybe that’s why so many entrepreneurs struggle with building a disruptive new business, where breaks from the norm are the key to success. I suspect that there are really a lot of “grown-up closet freaks” out there who could be great entrepreneurs. Establish a daily framework for action. Also connect with people you can help.

Develop 57

Develop Development Framework Startup 57

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2019

The bad news is that it’s still a jungle fight for survival for entrepreneurs of all ages and demographics, with over 80 percent not having access to bank loans or venture capital. I support being socially and environmentally conscious, but you can’t help anyone else if you don’t eat. If you want to survive.

Startup 94

Startup News Framework Outsource 94

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Coming up with a new idea, and launching your startup is one thing, three entrepreneurs do this every second. In this article, five entrepreneurs share their top tips for preventing stagnation and effectively scaling a business. This question helps me focus in on what is central to our business offering.”.

Entrepreneur 40

Entrepreneur Startup Framework Ideas 40

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2019

Most entrepreneurs I know are individually very innovative, but a successful startup can’t be a one-man show (for long). There are many resources out there to help you address team dysfunction , but very few provide much insight on a process for maximizing startup team innovation once you have the motivated people.

Ideas 97

Ideas Framework Satisfaction Entrepreneur 97

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 28, 2010

.&# In many of the meetings you’d meet clients who would tell you everything you needed to know, would offer to help you and then would never follow up on the help that they had offered. McKinsey had their “ 7S framework &# and BCG had the “ BCG Matrix &# with cash cows, dogs, stars and question marks.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Go Trexx (www.gotrexx.com), which is based in Mission Viejo, think it's by engaging kids with mobile applications which provide background information, helps to build excitement, and gets kids involved in traveling to different destinations. I'm more of a serial entrepreneur. That framework is beautiful in that way.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

Yet many aspiring entrepreneurs I know approach it as a fun project, get-rich quick scheme, or perhaps an expensive hobby. As an entrepreneur, you need to start early to implement the discipline and business practices that will lead to success. Neither of these approaches bodes well for success. Use personal credit cards for business.

Startup 127

Startup Ideas Framework Entrepreneur 127

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Yesterday I had lunch with a really interesting and capable serial entrepreneur who is raising his A round. So I thought I’d try to lay out a framework for how you should think about it as many you will inevitably be faced with this experience. And they probably have every intent of helping you. it sure is tempting.

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Venture Capital Startup Entrepreneur Framework 279

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Most entrepreneurs I know are individually very innovative, but a successful startup can’t be a one-man show (for long). There are many resources out there to help you address team dysfunction , but very few provide much insight on a process for maximizing startup team innovation once you have the motivated people.

Ideas 97

Ideas Framework Entrepreneur Satisfaction 97

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

The situation is pretty common it got us to riff a bit around how to get programmers to help him build out a proof-of-concept version for his startup. In the case of the entrepreneur that was the genesis of this post, he had done a lot on paper. Ask for help. Again, if you don't know you should ask people who will know.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 8, 2010

If you ever have to interview, hire, judge the performance of, decide whether to promote, assign clients/regions to them or have to decide whether to fire sales people, I think having a framework for thinking about them is helpful. In life I’ve found it useful to have little frameworks to try and interpret the world through.

Startup 350

Startup Sales Framework Organization 350

socalTECH

MAY 17, 2019

For today's interview, we sat down and spoke with David Loo , the founder and CEO of Perspectium (www.perspectium.com), a startup which is developing service management applications designed to help connect different, enterprise service management software products together. What's your biggest lesson you've learned as an entrepreneur?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2013

Like most startup entrepreneurs, when I began my first company in 1999 I had no formal sales experience. It helped make sure that we all thought about our sales campaigns in a uniform way and that we had a common language that would help us decide where to spend our limited resources. This article originally appeared on Inc.com.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Every entrepreneur tries to maximize his startup growth by building and selling more product and services for the widest geographic area that he can support. Many entrepreneurs are paranoid about the partnership approach, and think that M&A is only an alternative for large companies who are flush with cash. Partial acquisition.

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Acquisition CTO Hire Startup Outsource Development 88