Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

The crowd gets the satisfaction of helping, with minimal risk, and no expectation of any high return. Product pre-order model. With this model, a startup pre-sells their product early, at a cheaper price, in exchange for a pledge. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 2/13/2015. Interest on debt model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2015

Too many founders have learned that passion and free beta products do not imply a sustainable business. Proof of any business model starts with a finished product or solution, sold to a new customer for full price, with high satisfaction for the value received. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 4/10/2015.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Our product was built specifically for the mid market, and we've been riding the wave of IT budgets, which are starting to open up, and companies are really quickly signing up because this is a big pain point, from their perspective. We took it to the market in January of 2015. Mike Whitmire: It's all about product, market, fit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Similar startups, with competing products, almost always have overlapping areas, which cost money to develop and annoy customers with a new learning curve. With a strategic partnership, they can combine their product strengths with minimal cost and time, rather than each funding new development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Five major elements of every business include your people, product, opportunity, money and marketing. Innovative products and services always take longer to develop than anticipated, and quality problems pop up where least expected. Written product specifications and business plans pay big dividends.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

Use this opportunity to validate their satisfaction and support for your company and your solution. Here investors are looking for feature problems or quality issues on the current product. A hard look will be taken at the technology maturity, the current development progress, and customer satisfaction with early product shipments.

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Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Entrepreneur 108

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Creating an innovative new business is guaranteed to test your skills, patience and determination, and you need to derive satisfaction from the journey, as well as the destination. Usually it pays to dig deeper on lost sales opportunities and negative customer reviews to resolve a deep-seated product deficiency or delivery channel issue.

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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. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 9/30/2015. Set the bar high on standards. Doing the right thing means never accepting “good enough” or making excuses for lapses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2016

Many people will argue that total customer satisfaction is paramount, but I’m a pragmatist who believes that treating everyone the same really means treating all of them poorly. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 12/23/2015. Success is being able to say no to a customer -- and still have both of you walk away happy.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Of course, improving customer satisfaction is a goal, but the system would drill down to specific issues such as knowledge of store layout. More on this Topic EPSS and ePerformance E-Performance at Work: Self-Service Action and Development Planning Performance Support in 2015 eFollow-Up Performance Support Performance Support

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2016

Examples cited include biometrics, tool productivity, environmental control, social visibility, relationship data, and brand insight. This shrinking group is willing to share location, brand history, and tool productivity data, but is still reticent to share social, biometric, and environmental data. Reluctant consumers – 44 percent.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Creating a new product or startup is no longer limited to those who have access to government grants or venture capital funding, the tech industry has become democratized and VentureRadar wants to further facilitate new entrepreneurs by giving them exposure and contacts.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 3, 2015

Many women rose to the top of their careers only to discover how unsatisfying, soul-draining and unhealthy a lifestyle it was and completely changed careers to find satisfaction doing something completely different where they once again became successful, but in a more balanced manner. Novel concept.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

I believe the days of the “job work” mentality are thankfully waning, with more people looking to get satisfaction by making the world a better place, rather than just tolerating brain-numbing work to fund enjoyment elsewhere. Most now routinely buy startups for new technology and new products. million businesses in 2014.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2015

"If we design a great product, investors will find us." Technologists forget that investors are buying a chunk of the business, not the product. Every solution needs a business team first who knows how to market, distribute and support the product. They provide a personal legacy, satisfaction and happiness.

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