Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

Every entrepreneur wishes that he could predict whether his idea could be the “next big thing,” before he spent his life savings and years of energy on it. I define these products and services as “solutions” (customers buy solutions to a problem), but Guy Kawasaki more generically calls them causes, meaning any new idea, company, or service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2022

If you are not sure of your best fit, like many people I know, I just found help in a new book, “ The 6 Types of Working Genius ,” by Patrick Lencioni. He brings real-life insights from his organizational health work with thousands of business leaders around the globe. Assess your satisfaction and ability for this type of work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Many experts are certain that successful entrepreneurs are the ones with the most inspiration (passion and dream), while others will assert that it’s about more perspiration (working harder). Surprisingly, word-of-mouth and viral efforts require more work and a larger budget than you would expect. Increasing customer focus and loyalty.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

A common request I hear from aspiring entrepreneurs is for an assessment of their latest idea. I don’t even try to assess things at the idea level, since I can’t read minds. Here are seven key considerations for how you should make your own best entrepreneur business idea decision in this context: Pick something you really enjoy doing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2020

As an advisor to entrepreneurs, one of the most common requests I get is for an evaluation of a next startup idea. I try to explain that even the most innovative idea will fail if it is not a good fit for you at this time, so the question I ask them is “why you now” rather than “ why this solution now ?”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2023

Glei, “ Manage Your Day-to-Day ,” which asserts that working consistently and frequently on something makes it possible to accomplish more, with greater originality, than spasmodic bursts of effort. You might be thinking, “Having to work frequently, whether or not I feel inspired, will force me to lower my standards.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2021

As a business mentor, I sometimes feel besieged by people begging for my view and support of their latest idea. In reality, I like most ideas, but I have to tell them that the real challenge is taking the inspiration from a dream to a business reality. Now you see why no one should judge business success potential by the idea alone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2023

The current surge of working remotely, driven by the pandemic and international freelancing, has challenged our thinking on collaboration and leadership, both within teams and outside, to other organizations. I offer here my interpretation of her five key leadership behavior principles: Help team members find meaning with work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In fact, some very innovative individuals, known as ‘idea people’ or inventors, often end up creating the most dysfunctional teams. A typical approach to dealing with team dysfunction or no innovation process is to work around it, which normally leads to startup failure. Innovation is not all about coming up with new ideas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2021

I’m convinced that people who have fun at work are more innovative, as well as happier. Humble leaders with this trait seem to create cultures that don't take themselves too seriously; cultures willing to take risks; cultures capable of creating and supporting a greater number of ideas. Here are a few: Escape the inhibitions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Most entrepreneurs I meet are reluctant to disclose anything about their idea to investors before getting a signed confidential disclosure agreement (CDA). These professionals value their integrity, like your therapist or financial advisor, and will not share your business details nor steal your idea.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 4, 2020

We also shared a passion for seeing others launch new ideas and grow them. To build trust in e-commerce with the greater public, his company came up with innovative ideas and fostered new customer behaviors. He knew that statistically, not all new endeavors would work out, but that was ok.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Many aspiring entrepreneurs I mentor can talk at length about their innovative ideas and passions, and ask lots of good questions, but never make much progress in building a real business. In my experience, building a business is much more about getting things done than having great ideas. It’s time to get the help you need.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

It’s time to take the drudgery and dread out of work at your business. You don’t like it, millennials won’t put up with it, and current productivity levels at work continue to decline. Only 34 percent of American workers are even engaged at work today. Sophie Wade. More people as a substitute for technology is not a solution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2022

These days, everyone wants to be an entrepreneur, pitching their latest and greatest new idea, and looking for someone to give them money. Talk is cheap, but entrepreneurs who show you a working model of their idea know how to execute. Many ideas I hear sound great, but I have no idea if they can be implemented.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2023

How many times have you actually made up work to keep an idle person busy? Isn’t it amazing how often all the necessary work gets done, even when resources are removed or the budget is reduced in an ongoing project? The benefit of working harder and more efficiently is success despite constraints.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

I was always impressed by a few people at work who seemed to get along with everyone, and wondered what I was missing in talent or temperament. Sometimes you can simply avoid these, but more often you have to work in concert with them on a common project or career-risking decision. No one wants a nemesis at work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

In business, and in your personal life, the ability to anticipate and overcome criticism is one of the biggest differentiators between leaders, who make things happen, and followers, who may have great ideas but never seem to get things to go their way. The reality is that good ideas are always challenged, so you need to expect it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The future of work is definitely changing, accelerated by the current pandemic. Obviously, more work from home is likely one of the results, but that alone could actually be less satisfying, with its reduced ability to interact with peers, and all the distractions of a home and remote environment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2021

Many entrepreneurs waste too much time on low-priority administrative tasks, procrastinating on higher priority but tougher tasks, resulting in last minute crises, and failure to complete the critical work that people are really expecting of them. Pacing yourself will take you further than non-stop working. Avoid these.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2023

The idea of servant leadership is that the typical hierarchy where employees are supposed to serve their bosses is turned upside down. The challenge is how to change, without negatively impacting the work culture, and still optimizing the current talent, knowledge, and skills. Use influence, not authority, to inspire people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

One thing I have learned the hard way in business is that implementing new ideas is usually much more difficult than conceiving the idea in the first place. That’s why I caution my aspiring entrepreneur clients against proclaiming to investors that they are a great “idea” person. For example, I have a friend with a Ph.D.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Millennials want work that matters, and don’t care for hierarchies. Boomers are coming back to work, but because of their experience, they may be insulted by constant feedback. All prefer more flexible hours, the chance to work from home, and the traditions of lifetime loyalty to one company no longer apply.

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socalTECH

MAY 15, 2014

Irvine-based Oculus VR , the virtual reality technology developer which was just picked up by Facebook for $2 billion--has a lot of developers with great virtual reality game and simulation ideas and software in the works.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 19, 2021

If a loaf of bread is $7, but you pay $15 for delivery, it doesn’t work for small-ticket items.”. Instead, their idea was to bundle businesses together and operate on a weekly model, so all of the bakeries and restaurants have one big order by Thursday for Saturday delivery rather than a bunch of separate orders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2022

Leaving work every day exhausted leads to burnout and easy meltdowns. Time spent building and maintaining key work relationships can dramatically improve your productivity, reduce stress, and raise your melting point. Set aside time to seek out experts in your field for ideas, as well as mentoring and coaching.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2020

Savvy entrepreneurs start testing their ideas on potential customers even before the concept is fully cooked. They have enough confidence in their ability to deliver that they don’t worry about someone stealing the idea to get there first, and they don’t forget to listen carefully to critical feedback.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2023

That’s why I’m impressed with the classic book, “ All Dreams on Deck: Charting the Course for Your Life and Work ,” by Jeremy Cage. I’m confident this will work for many of you, but since not all of us are sailors, I have tried to reframe his key points here into the business context that I can better relate to.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2021

Like any other relationship, it takes work on both sides to make mentoring work. Brian Tracy, in his classic book “ Earn What You’re Really Worth ,” solidifies my ideas on how mentoring, as well as other personal development activities, can quickly increase anyone’s value and income in business. Marty Zwilling.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 9, 2020

The coronavirus outbreak has many businesses urgently considering their work-from-home policies. If you're soon likely to be logging on from your living room, there are some best practices for working from home that will keep your tasks efficient and your business secure. Work When You're Productive. Designate a Work Area .

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2022

If an entrepreneur doesn’t find themselves in over their head at least 20% of the time, they are probably not pushing the limits, not taking enough risk, and probably not working on an idea that’s worth doing. If you find yourself dragging in to work, and dreading the next surprise, you may be in over your head.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

But you have no idea what to do next. When you do connect with your niche, you will have resources to expand and alter your message for the next niche and then the next. How to Find Your Niche? So now I hope I’ve convinced you. Think about your product or service.

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Tech.Co

JULY 29, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has forced many companies to embrace working from home. Google has announced that its staff will work from home until at least July 2021. Other tech companies – including Facebook and Twitter – have suggested that most employees could work remotely indefinitely, even after coronavirus restrictions are lifted.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Most entrepreneurs, and members of any small team, naively assume that the key to their success is hard work, dedication, and long hours in the business. In reality, their effectiveness is usually more related to how well they develop their work relationships with peers and business leaders. Workship - Mentor. Friendship.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

But the reality is that most “overnight successes&# come at the end of years of hard work and those witnessing the “success&# part too readily assume the “overnight part.&#. Hard work is, as my economics professors used to say, “necessary but not sufficient.&# It is good, steady, old-fashioned hard work.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Venice, California-based Snapchat said Tuesday that it has settled a dispute with Reggie Brown , the fellow Stanford University student who had claimed that he came up with the idea for Snapchat. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed. READ MORE>>. snapchat lawsuit reggie brown legal settlement social media'

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Tech.Co

APRIL 7, 2020

The current Covid-19 pandemic has had an epochal effect on businesses, and even the humble office space has taken a blow, with millions of us now working from home. While most companies are able to continue operating with employees remote working, what about those businesses where the office itself is the revenue model? Has it worked?

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