Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2023

The cost of entry has never been lower, with new tools to create your own website , and free social media to get your message out everywhere. Based on my own experience as a mentor and angel investor, I find that as many as ninety percent of startups fail in the first five years, despite their best efforts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2022

These events are also opportunities to get a better handle on customer requirements, as well as measure your customer satisfaction and market trends. Seek mentoring from established industry leaders. The right mentors can give you timely and unbiased feedback on your business, industry trends, and emerging competitors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2019

Unfortunately, work and satisfaction have become an oxymoron in many businesses. I loved it when my boss gave me the additional responsibility of mentoring others in solving tough problems. Regularly asking for insight, and then following up, to fix these wasted efforts, will improve job satisfaction, as well as productivity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2022

In my experience as an advisor and mentor to entrepreneurs in business, one of the biggest failures I see is a lack of self-leadership. Everyone has some degree of strengths blindness, and will likely benefit from one of many tools, such as the Clifton StrengthsFinder. You can’t lead a business to success, if you can’t lead yourself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2021

Unfortunately, these goals are often mutually exclusive, and focusing on the wrong ones won’t bring you that business success and satisfaction you crave. For example, Richard Branson relishes the satisfaction of initiating innovative startups, and rewarding strong team members with the opportunity to run a joint spinoff.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2020

In my own role as advisor and mentor to many entrepreneurs and startups, I was struck by how relevant and critical these same initiatives are to even the earliest stage businesses. Your standards for product quality, sales growth, and customer satisfaction must be documented and reviewed prior to results and performance reviews.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2021

The solution to this problem is part of a bigger challenge – taking back control of your work life, and regaining a sense of freedom and influence, as described in the classic book, “ Work-Life Brilliance: Tools to Break Stress and Create the Life and Health You Crave ,” by Denise R. Make an offer that serves both your needs. Drop the guilt.

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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. You need to step out of your comfort zone to socialize, meet new people, and collaborate with peers, company leaders, and mentors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2019

Yes, companies have to enable a culture of purpose, employee value, positive feedback, and the tools to do the work, but people have to take ownership of their own life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Take satisfaction from a couple of simple wins every day. Getting to know the managers also helped engagement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2022

Provide tools and resources as required. Look for a mentor, or expert in this area, and ask their advice. If you as a business leader can weather one or two crises, using these recommendations, you will find your brand image and personal image rising, as well as your satisfaction with the role increasing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2020

In my own experience as a startup advisor and mentor, I find that entrepreneurs who can’t attract and maintain a highly motivated team rarely even get off the ground. Good hiring, training, and mentoring are the best motivators. Practice every day what you preach. Positive feedback has a diminishing half-life.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2022

They assume that new tools and structures will have to be built along the way. Progress on the learning curve is their satisfaction. By asking a junior colleague to mentor you, you will more likely hear new approaches or technologies and get new insights on your customer base or business challenges.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2020

They assume that new tools and structures will have to be built along the way. Progress on the learning curve is their satisfaction. By asking a junior colleague to mentor you, you will more likely hear new approaches or technologies and get new insights on your customer base or business challenges.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

In my experience as an advisor and mentor to entrepreneurs in business, one of the biggest failures I see is a lack of self-leadership. Everyone has some degree of strengths blindness, and will likely benefit from one of many tools, such as the Clifton StrengthsFinder. You can’t lead a business to success, if you can’t lead yourself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2019

Your help in quantifying the return to the business will solidify your career, make your requests for new assistance and new tools easier, and give you the insight to perhaps start your own business. Being busy or working long hours does not always mean a larger value to the business. Realize that your growth is related to business success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

In my experience as an advisor and mentor to entrepreneurs in business, one of the biggest failures I see is a lack of self-leadership. Everyone has some degree of strengths blindness, and will likely benefit from one of many tools, such as the Clifton StrengthsFinder. You can’t lead a business to success, if you can’t lead yourself.

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Coach Satisfaction Ideas Entrepreneur 59

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2016

In my own role as advisor and mentor to many entrepreneurs and startups, I was struck by how relevant and critical these same initiatives are to even the earliest stage businesses. Your standards for product quality, sales growth, and customer satisfaction must be documented and reviewed prior to results and performance reviews.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 21, 2014

It wasn''t until I turned 50 that I fully adopted basketball legend John Wooden''s definition of victory: "Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.". This was a difficult and gradual transition. Consciousness Can Be A Bummer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2016

In my own experience as a startup advisor and mentor, I find that entrepreneurs who can’t attract and maintain a highly motivated team rarely even get off the ground. Good hiring, training, and mentoring are the best motivators. Practice every day what you preach. Positive feedback has a diminishing half-life.

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Startup Examples Mentor Activity 58

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2018

Give team members the training, tools, and data to do the job. They need your mentoring, tools, and historical data to be a top performer. Thus paying for sales volume, when you desire customer satisfaction, will not get you high performance. Don’t surprise your employee at the end.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Business productivity is all about having the right people, even though I’m bombarded daily with online tools and mobile apps that promise to solve every problem with automation and data. In reality, business success and satisfaction is about doing the right things at the right time, which requires leadership and coaching.

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Coach Training Summary Tool 57

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2017

The solution to this problem is part of a bigger challenge – taking back control of your work life, and regaining a sense of freedom and influence, as described in a new book, “ Work-Life Brilliance: Tools to Break Stress and Create the Life and Health You Crave ,” by Denise R. Make an offer that serves both your needs. Drop the guilt.

Startup 58

Startup Tool Coach Satisfaction 58

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2014

They assume that new tools and structures will have to be built along the way. Progress on the learning curve is their satisfaction. By asking a junior colleague to mentor you, you will more likely hear new approaches or technologies and get new insights on your customer base or business challenges.

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Entrepreneur Startup Satisfaction Ideas 107

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2015

Most successful entrepreneurs, including Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, maintain mentor relationships with key advisors that they highly respect. By prioritizing customer need and value first, you will more likely achieve the satisfaction of seeing your paradigm shift become reality.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2017

As an advisor to startups, and a mentor to many aspiring entrepreneurs, I’m still surprised at the number who are determined to go it alone. Find a partner who has dealt with the realities of technology, tools, and financing. It’s your success and satisfaction that’s really at stake. Don’t repeat the mistakes of others.

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Help Startup Course Technical Review 66

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2018

They assume that new tools and structures will have to be built along the way. Progress on the learning curve is their satisfaction. By asking a junior colleague to mentor you, you will more likely hear new approaches or technologies and get new insights on your customer base or business challenges.

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Startup Entrepreneur Satisfaction Ideas 51

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

They assume that new tools and structures will have to be built along the way. Progress on the learning curve is their satisfaction. By asking a junior colleague to mentor you, you will more likely hear new approaches or technologies and get new insights on your customer base or business challenges.

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Entrepreneur Startup Satisfaction Ideas 59

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2017

They skip from one to the next, providing expert guidance and money, getting their satisfaction (and reward) from the best of the best. Advisors and mentors are busy people. With open-source tools and public APIs, every product is no longer owned by a given company. Optimize your advisers and investors.

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Startup Entrepreneur Resource Course 60

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2013

They skip from one to the next, providing expert guidance and money, getting their satisfaction (and reward) from the best of the best. Advisors and mentors are busy people. With open-source tools and public APIs, every product is no longer owned by a given company. Optimize your advisers and investors.

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Entrepreneur Startup Resource Course 92

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

Do we optimize for “social sharing tools” or merely for back-end analytics? The board was unanimous in our opinion of this including outside director Ian Rogers who has served as Jonathan’s mentor and friend. Do we price for volume of consumption or for enterprise integration with other platforms?

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