Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Foster innovation in process as well as products. Technology can be used to facilitate customer support and sales, as well as enhance your product. Successful leaders are good coaches and mentors, as well as being on the lookout for personal learning opportunities. Mentoring and training programs need to be put in place early.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2015

The result is a huge loss in productivity and morale and potentially the death of a promising startup. Yet most founders are overworked, so they have no time and budget for coaching and training. How often are meetings interactive and productive? Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 10/21/2015.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2015

Apply the same high bar to product quality, employee satisfaction, social responsibilities and customer service. Be a coach, rather than a dictator. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 9/30/2015. Set the bar high on standards. Don’t let day-to-day demands take the reins and drag you off course.

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MAY 22, 2016

You are the ultimate product; your work, innovations and products are an extension of yourself. I went through a really hard time; my divorce finalized last March 2015. Self Acceleration goes beyond coaching, its approach is more powerful, and not available otherwise. The SELF Accelerator is our core product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2015

The most productive teams regularly engage in some healthy friction and heated debates between team members, but are able to avoid the emotion and drama that negates the value of these efforts. It also means coaching and challenging peers on the team on behavior leading to dysfunction, even when it means risking a friendship.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Over time you start to figure out who you customers are and how to sell to them or how to get them to adopt your products if you’re a consumer-oriented startup. how to market our products and company. See as a board we can already see very clearly how our 2014 & 2015 years pencil out with a fair degree of predictability.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2015

Mark Suster (@msuster) July 19, 2015. As an industry we need to pay attention to those who are struggling as they build their startups and make sure we pay as much attention to the mental stresses of the job as we do to the business challenges like shipping product, hiring staff and raising money. Advisors / Coaches / Mentors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

They build a startup culture of working for customers rather than pushing a product. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 11/11/2015. Successful entrepreneurs start with a customer problem, and develop a solution, rather than the other way around. Develop market insights and a growth vision far beyond today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2015

Yet the 2015 Office Romance Survey by Vault, Inc. in sociology, and a coach and speaker on work issues and friendship. She outlines the potential benefits of “workships” (work relationships) evolving into friendships and romances as follows: Improve communication and productivity. by Jan Yager, who is a Ph.D.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

So part of playing an effective coach is helping the team to see the answer for themselves. ” He has publicly espoused building products for “non logged in users” and has benefitted greatly from his thesis of large networks of socially connected & like minded individuals.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

and I thought if we brought the community together for common purpose we could create more of a sense of community to help new entrepreneurs get funded, assemble teams, raise profiles and help with biz dev, product, etc. We have some announcements set for 2015. By 2011 the market had started to change dramatically. So we went for it.

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JANUARY 1, 2016

But putting no time into anchoring your beliefs because you’re too busy executing sales, marketing, support, product & engineering is an easy recipe for leadership drift. I’ve spent hours this week reading about the firing of the head coach and personnel manager of the football team I support – The Philadelphia Eagles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Helpers may be cheaper and quicker to find, but they cost you dearly in managing, coaching and error recovery. Start marketing before you have a product to sell. Great marketing is often more important than a great product. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 11/06/2015.

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