Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2021

Do case studies and gather customer testimonials, as well as build relationships that lead to advocacy, loyalty, and word-of-mouth support. You will likely be amazed at the kind of requests you get, and what you can learn, which could lead to new opportunities, new products, and new customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

You don’t like it, millennials won’t put up with it, and current productivity levels at work continue to decline. In my view as a long-time business advisor, this problem is driving a new entrepreneur age, with the lure of doing what you love, and loving what you do. Coach for productivity, performance, and creativity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2021

Almost every entrepreneur and new business owner I mentor is certain that his/her idea has a very high probability of success, and all find it hard to believe that ninety percent of startups ultimately fail. I once met with an entrepreneur who had developed a new algae strain to cure world hunger and make him rich.

Technical Review 131

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. That’s where I see too much entrepreneur burnout, growth plateaus, and founders being replaced, to their chagrin. Of course, not every entrepreneur wants to tackle this challenge. There is no free lunch.

Startup 97

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 9, 2013

During the period studied, only "1.3% In a similar vein, a 2012 study by the Kauffman Foundation noted that women account for only 10% of all the founders of high-tech startups. At Rincon Venture Partners , we have invested in several female entrepreneurs(so far), including Tracy DiNunzio, Founder and CEO of Tradesy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2014

This contextual focus is critical to innovation and survival – the right product at the right time. Relevant skills include continuous improvement of existing methods, processes and devices against a set of quality metrics. business change rate comfort zone entrepreneur startup' Increase change agility. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2013

On a regular basis, I am approached by entrepreneurs who assert that business plans are a waste of time. They cite sources like a recent BusinessWeek story, “ Real Entrepreneurs Don’t Write Business Plans ” and this NY Times article. For the rest of you entrepreneurs, consider the value of a business plan when it is not required.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. That’s where I see too much entrepreneur burnout, growth plateaus, and founders being replaced, to their chagrin. Of course, not every entrepreneur wants to tackle this challenge. There is no free lunch.

Startup 108

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Per the latest study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic has grown 17-fold over the past 5 years, reaching 11.5 As an entrepreneur, what steps can you take to help your business not only survive the data hurricane, but to thrive under these new and challenging conditions?

Technology 97

Technology Social Media Startup Entertainment 97

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2019

That’s a huge leap from an entrepreneurial idea, to a product, to making money. My job as a new business advisor is to help entrepreneurs get over this chasm early. In business, consistency is the key to productivity and trust by team members and customers alike. Most entrepreneurs find that they are their own toughest critics.

Case Study 93

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Successful entrepreneurs must never stop looking for ways to improve their own productivity, as well as the efficiency and momentum of the team. The need for this focus may seem obvious to you, but I still hear many complaints from entrepreneurs and employees alike on the hours they work, and how they are underpaid for their time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Intuitively, many entrepreneurs and businesses believe that the key to faster growth and success is more products, features, and markets. All entrepreneurs must succeed first as specialists, using pivots as required to zero in on the real and current market. Well-articulated goals and metrics. Just ask J.C.

Startup 109

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. That’s where I see too much entrepreneur burnout, growth plateaus, and Founders being replaced, to their chagrin. Of course, not every entrepreneur wants to tackle this challenge. There is no free lunch.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. That’s where I see too much entrepreneur burnout, growth plateaus, and founders being replaced, to their chagrin. Of course, not every entrepreneur wants to tackle this challenge. There is no free lunch.

Startup 56

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 30, 2012

In his book Enchantment , Guy Kawasaki encourages entrepreneurs to immerse their audience in their “cause”, in order to enchant them. One of the immersion techniques Guy promotes is to offer a hands-on trial, in which the prospective customer can touch, feel and experience your product before purchasing it. Gender Bias.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2019

You don’t like it, millennials won’t put up with it, and current productivity levels at work continue to decline. In my view as a long-time business advisor, this problem is driving a new entrepreneur age, with the lure of doing what you love, and loving what you do. Coach for productivity, performance, and creativity.

Company 78

Company Companies Coach Satisfaction 78

socalTECH

AUGUST 30, 2017

David Baird: I've been a musician since I was five, studying classical piano, and evolved into guitar like so many other people. David Baird: We have a deep product pipeline, with lots of enhanecments planned. The new site is focused entirely on creating a more efficient, online marketplace, that helps bot sides help each other.

Startup 150

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

In our industry we applaud the efforts for entrepreneurs to have tried and we know that today’s failure can bring the experience for tomorrow’s success. Storage is what’s known as “highly fragmented,” meaning easier for a new entrant to get traction if it could design a better product / service / experience.

Startup 150

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

Per a new study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic grew 69 percent in 2014, reaching 2.5 As an entrepreneur, what steps can you take to help your business not only survive the data hurricane, but to thrive under these new and challenging conditions? Data enable: use metrics and measurements.

Startup 106

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2017

You don’t like it, millennials won’t put up with it, and current productivity levels at work continue to decline. In my view as a long-time business advisor, this problem is driving a new entrepreneur age, with the lure of doing what you love, and loving what you do. Coach for productivity, performance, and creativity.

Satisfaction 67

Satisfaction Coach Startup Organization 67

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2016

Intuitively, many entrepreneurs and businesses believe that the key to faster growth and success is more products, features, and markets. All entrepreneurs must succeed first as specialists, using pivots as required to zero in on the real and current market. Well-articulated goals and metrics. Just ask J.C.

Startup 59

Startup Resource Entrepreneur Metrics 59

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2014

In a recent study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic grew 81% in 2013 and will reach 1.3 As an entrepreneur, what steps can you take to help your business not only survive the data hurricane, but to thrive under these new and challenging conditions? Data enable: use metrics and measurements.

Startup 99

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 99

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2019

In fact, you may have noticed in a recent study , that the business CEO turnover rate last year was the highest in 10 years, and may go even higher this year. Real business leadership requires continuous improvement, just like your products and processes. It’s not about a title, raw intelligence, or domination.

Tips 97

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Per the latest study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic has grown 18-fold over the past 5 years, reaching 7.2 As an entrepreneur, what steps can you take to help your business not only survive the data hurricane, but to thrive under these new and challenging conditions?

Startup 55

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 55

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2017

That’s a huge leap from an entrepreneurial idea, to a product, to making money. My job as a new business advisor is to help entrepreneurs get over this chasm early. In business, consistency is the key to productivity and trust by team members and customers alike. Most entrepreneurs find that they are their own toughest critics.

Case Study 55

Case Study Customer Custom Entrepreneur 55

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2019

You are so engaged in building and selling your product or service, that you “don’t have time” to focus on strategy and the next round of changes for the business to survive and grow. This requires constant study of what your customers value, what competitors offer, and your target market. Strategy can’t be a one-time effort.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 8, 2010

Death By Competitive Analysis - Steve Blank , March 1, 2010 Trading emails with a startup CEO building an iPhone app, I asked him why potential customers would buy his product. One thing I have found interesting is that amongst first-time software entrepreneurs, certain “patterns” of applications kept recurring. And it made me sad.

Startup 150

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socalTECH

JANUARY 24, 2011

Matthias Galica: My last role was as a product manager for another local startup, Woome.com, an online dating site. Me and my co-founder went through the Founder's Institute here, while we were still in our day jobs, and one of the markets we studied was the huge, out-of-home advertising market.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Why Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers. My Obsession With The Product - Feld Thoughts , May 3, 2010 For some reason I’ve been doing a lot of interviews lately. In many of them I get asked similar questions, including the inevitable “what makes a great entrepreneur?” was having coffee with a friend who teaches at the U.C.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2013

According to a study of 1700 CEOs last year, only 60% of companies today use social media for marketing, and only 12% of those feel that they are using it effectively. Define relevant metrics and measure. entrepreneur get started small business social media' His business has since closed, but his mindset is still out there.

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Social Media Media Startup Social Network 106

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2019

In my own years of experience as a business advisor, improving the company culture is still a major challenge to company leaders, many of whom were raised in a different era, or struggle trying to balance the rising costs of perks and benefits against measurable growth in productivity and profits.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2016

Many entrepreneurs assume that everyone will love their solution as much as they do, so they tune their marketing focus based on their own needs and wants. New customers are looking for the best buying and support experience as well as the best product. Expanding your market into these areas requires thinking outside your personal box.

Customer 55

Customer Custom Marketing Social Media 55

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2017

This contextual focus is critical to innovation and survival – the right product at the right time. Relevant skills include continuous improvement of existing methods, processes and devices against a set of quality metrics. Increase change agility. In summary, change will happen.

Startup 56

Startup Training Statistics Summary 56

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Studies show, if you don't, people will turn to piracy. Our metrics show that when people watch chips, they increase their tendency to want to watch that feature length film. When we talked to Shasta Venturse, they asked us a few questions, and the first one was--what do you think about the product? What do you feel about UI/UX?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

This contextual focus is critical to innovation and survival – the right product at the right time. Relevant skills include continuous improvement of existing methods, processes and devices against a set of quality metrics. Increase change agility. In summary, change will happen.

Startup 93

Startup Training Statistics Summary 93

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

This contextual focus is critical to innovation and survival – the right product at the right time. Relevant skills include continuous improvement of existing methods, processes and devices against a set of quality metrics. Increase change agility. In summary, change will happen.

Startup 94

Startup Marketing Training Statistics 94

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2011

He is not alone, according to a recent study , which concludes that only 47% of companies use social media today for marketing, despite the fact that 78% of executives polled feel it’s critical for success. Define relevant metrics and measure. What’s the problem? Then continue to measure and learn what works, at what cost.

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Social Media Media Marketing Social Network 104