Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2020

All of us are struggling to keep up in this age of technological acceleration, where we learn every day that we can’t trust links in our email, marketing guarantees, or phone requests from people we don’t know. For trust, they look online to see how you handle real support and satisfaction issues.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2016

The report also indicates that customer problem experiences continue to increase, up four percent to 54 percent since the last study. The proper time to put a formal program in place to improve your customer experience, with measurements of both cost and value, is before your first product or service hits the market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2016

In reality, that’s the definition of a successful startup these days, so every aspiring entrepreneur should take note, as well as every existing corporate executive. For buy-in and commitment, ask for team proposals in a specific timeframe to start the process. Announce and launch an operational product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2017

They get more personal satisfaction from giving than from receiving. Mark Zuckerberg started Facemash as a dating site for Harvard elite, but found success only after morphing it to Facebook social media for all. Never give up until you achieve your dream. Show up for more opportunities. Always give more than you get.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 1, 2016

You’ve probably already made your resolutions for 2016, but if not, I suggest a renewed commitment to finding happiness and satisfaction in your chosen business lifestyle. The right reason to start a business is not the money, challenge, or the prestige, but the chance to follow your dream. Keep expectations realistic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Does it sometimes seem like people all around you are getting promoted, or leaving to start their own business, while all your hard work and experience are getting you nowhere? Particularly in an innovative startup, everyone has to expect problems and change. They certainly would be unlikely to succeed in a new startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2016

They don’t realize that they are their own worst career enemies, since promotions and new opportunities always are offered first to people who proclaim to be productive winners, rather than sound like losers. Happier workers have been shown in studies to increase their pace (productivity) without sacrificing quality.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2016

Maybe it’s for this reason that as professionals advance in their career, they tend to start asking fewer questions and providing more answers. This question-based leadership approach starts with humility and a firm belief in the old adage, “There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

No consideration can be given to experience running a startup, breadth of skills, or even thinking like an entrepreneur. Like startup investors several layers deep, parent company executives often demand approval rights and exert their power, without understanding the issues of starting a new business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Whether you are starting a paper route, or commercializing a complex technology, the same basic principles of success apply. Although just seventeen years old, Patel has some great insights that I can extrapolate for every aspiring entrepreneur to answer the most common question I get as an advisor and mentor – “Where do I start?”

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Many entrepreneurs are so passionate about their new startup idea that they can’t believe any intelligent being, investor or customer wouldn’t react just as excitedly after a quick introduction. Indeed, all entrepreneurs have to start at the beginning with passion for an idea. Present evidence of interest and excitement from others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Whether it be in a startup or a large enterprise, everyone can name those few individuals who stand out as unstoppable, and always seem to be in the forefront of results. These accelerate your productivity, but must be continually updated from positive experiences, prior failures, and active listening. Superstars never stop learning.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2016

Steve Jobs never denied his failures, but didn’t hesitate to risk it all on a next turn of technology from computers to consumer products. His new product presentations were legendary. According to many, Elon Musk has worked for 100 hours a week for more than 15 years, with incredible productivity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Advertising and local business promotions may be adequate in some cases, but others may require a percentage of every transaction, or adding local products and services for an ecommerce model. External investors tend to focus on products rather than services. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/13/2016.

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DECEMBER 23, 2015

For Key Information Systems, it was building, productizing, and going-to-market with a complete set of data center services. What are the technologies or things you think people ought to watch in 2016? Vendors and startups will embrace OpenStack and Dockers. Lief Morin: There are four in particular I can think of.

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