Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

The market is changing so fast these days, and if you are not planning a solution today for tomorrow’s customers, you may be setting yourself up for failure and don’t even realize it. There are many free generalized tools, including Google Trends , which can be used to track customer behavior in looking for things that don’t exist yet.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Of course you’ve probably known of Meg as a business leader for many years, formerly as President and CEO of Hewlett Packard and the CEO of eBay before that, but since late 2018 she has been the CEO of Quibi (joining founder Jeffrey Katzenberg as the first employee). Between the heavy hitters at the helm, the more than $1.4B

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

An Insider’s Perspective “Bird Zero” that are custom designed by the company There is a story arc of the electric scooter market that took the world by storm in 2018, was second-guessed late in the year and has quietly re-emerged as a powerful force of growth where few really appreciate the speed and scale of what has happened.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

You don’t have to be a new venture advisor like me to hear all the excuses for not starting your own business. They ignore the fact that Colonel Sanders was 62 when he franchised KFC, Steve Jobs started Apple in his garage, and Michael Dell and several others dropped out of school to build billion dollar businesses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

It’s great to start with a big dream as you contemplate a new business, but finding the money you need takes more than dreaming. For example, I just read an otherwise impressive business plan last week from a first-timer who asked for $10 million to get started. Get started first on your own time and money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Of course, in a world which spawns over a half million startups every month, these accomplishments are very rare, but they are happening like never before. Whether our business is a startup or a multi-national brand, through platforms like Amazon, giant players have no special advantage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2019

Image via Pixabay Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. This can be customer acquisition cost, revenue growth, profit, or whatever other parameters are key to your success. Pick the ones that fit your desired outcome.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 14, 2020

Gender bias in medicine is systemic,” says Carine Carmy, the fast-talking CEO and co-founder of Origin , during a condensed chat about her startup mission to make physical therapy for women and mothers accessible and affordable across the US, both online and through a network of physical clinics.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2019

We caught up with Steereo CEO Anne Kavanaugh earlier this week to hear more about the company and its plans. We're a multi-sided marketplace, start with the driver. In the product world, you build a product, craft a marketing strategy, and acquire a user or customer. Explain what Steereo is and how it works?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2018

A guiding principle for startup success, as well as the long-term health of a mature business, is a liberal dose of innovation at the beginning, with additions of the same on a regular basis. Unfortunately, innovation means change, and most business professionals and existing customers, by default, hate change.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2019

We caught up with Steereo CEO Anne Kavanagh earlier this week to hear more about the company and its plans. We're a multi-sided marketplace, start with the driver. In the product world, you build a product, craft a marketing strategy, and acquire a user or customer. Explain what Steereo is and how it works?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2018

As a technology buff, I’m all too sensitive to the common investor complaint that technical people often end up selling yet another “solution looking for a problem,” because they are so impressed with their technology. Attracting business investors is as tough as attracting customers, but it’s a different challenge.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

One of the questions we discussed is, “How much capital should a startup raise?” In his words, [in some instances] “because lots of capital is available, the company takes on the capital and that ends up resulting in no constraints on decision making and so the company decides to do five things in stead of just one.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

As a manager or executive, your pent-up emotion makes it tempting to open with an attack, which immediately puts everyone on the defensive. Instead, you should start with a summary of your goals and objectives for the role, and emphasize the need for a collaborative turnaround plan. Quantify the impact on the project and other people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

As an advisor and mentor for many startups and small business founders, following my initial career in big business, I realize that the key strategies to achieve success in small businesses are often different from those that make larger businesses successful. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 10/29/2018.

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