Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2020

As an advisor to entrepreneurs, I often hear the desire to run their own company, to avoid having someone else telling them how to run the business. They don’t seem to realize that investors can be the most demanding bosses your ever had, since it’s their money you are using and potentially losing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

As a mentor to entrepreneurs, I often get asked for the magic that has made Amazon the world's most valuable brand , from a total unknown only twenty years ago. They present a convincing story that every entrepreneur has the same potential, but most get sidetracked and bogged down by their technology, competitors, and internal organization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2019

In the old days, every entrepreneur dreamed of easily taking their startup public, and making it big. Smart entrepreneurs are just now starting to look at this option again, due to its unpredictability and the challenges of running a public company. Startup founders don’t fit in a public company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2019

As an advisor to business owners, and an occasional angel investor, my job is to separate the actual challenges from the common misconceptions that distract many promising entrepreneurs while building the leadership team required for your solution, marketing, and finance success. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 08/09/2019.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2019

After working in business at all levels, and consulting to entrepreneurs for years, I’m still surprised to see so many situations where things that should be easy are painful to customers, and lead to customers hating your business. Economic/social trends demand new employee contract. Employee engagement is keyed to these expectations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

The ideas are endless, but we need more smart entrepreneurs to implement them. Another approach is simply repurposing used items, or simply passing them down to less demanding users, like the ecoATM story with used cell phones, tablets and MP3 players. Marty Zwilling First published on CayenneConsulting on 02/07/2019.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Editor's note: As we head into the new year, we've been featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. On Demand). You'll be able to browse all of those contributions here.

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JUNE 13, 2019

That's when it clicked for me, realizing that for some reason, everything online is on-demand. The underlying issue is we don't know what to watch, which makes on-demand a really bad experience. Everything was going on-demand, we we said, more people want to be programmed to, which was very contrarian. That just doesn't happen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Thus, I’m more impressed with entrepreneurs who ask me to review their implementation plan, rather than listen again to their idea. I suggest you use social media, blogging, crowdfunding, or documented research to quantify a real demand from people who can afford it, and don’t have a better alternative already out there.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2019

Every entrepreneur and business person I know wishes he had more time for coaching all the members of his team. Every successful entrepreneur needs to spend more time developing people, as the business grows. Marty Zwilling First published on CayenneConsulting on 07/11/2019. Expect it and plan for it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2019

Based on my own experience in large and small businesses, as well as mentoring entrepreneurs, here is my list of behaviors which will keep you ahead of the pack: Focus on managing relationships more than tasks. Marty Zwilling First published on CayenneConsulting on 05/09/2019. It’s not about a title, raw intelligence, or domination.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2019

They marched firmly ahead with their existing model, rather than reinvent themselves in the face of customers demanding change. From aspiring entrepreneurs, I often hear lengthy dissertations on a “great idea,” and how much this idea could be worth. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 01-15-2019.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2019

Yet, in my daily role as an advisor to entrepreneurs and small business owners, struggling to boost revenues, profits, and earnings, I still see too many managers falling back on command-and-control, a focus on weaknesses, and not enough time for people. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 05/10/2019. Change is hard.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

In my experience as an advisor to entrepreneurs, business startup founders most often point to a shortage of funds as the primary cause of their startup failure. A clear symptom of founder’s syndrome is more excuses, more demands, and more direction without input. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 08/28/2019.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

A theme I often hear from the entrepreneurs and startups I advise is that once they see that first surge of traction from customers, they can relax and enjoy life for a change. Treat employees like your most demanding customers. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 09/13/2019. Don’t let your competitor get there first.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2019

What were doing in 2019, is scaling the company. Were completely sold out, and theres more demand than we can keep up with. Its been used to protect critical infrastructure in nuclear power plants, to protect transmission lines, at prisons, at airports, by law enforcement, for dignitary protection, etc.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2017

They are very few and far between, partially because the demand is not out there. We needed to be close to an advanced, nanotechnology facility that could provide the fabrication technology for semiconductors. Even if you look at semiconductor foundries, the number of semiconductor companies in the U.S. Thanks, and good luck! READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Position your products as delivery for on-demand services. Marty Zwilling First published on CayenneConsulting on 01/15/2019. Mobile is far more powerful than print, broadcast, or billboards as a delivery vehicle, with its instant capability for establishing a relationship, initiating a transaction, or providing feedback.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2019

From his work with many new companies that have made it big, even without disruptive new technologies, he offers the following seven lessons that I, as a long-time entrepreneur advisor, believe every new business founder should take to heart: Focus on acquiring an initial customer set in bulk. Without suppliers, the customers walk away.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2020

It is a company with a mission to create better access and more funding for Black entrepreneurs and executives. And Black entrepreneurs wanted access to decision makers but didn’t always have the easy connections. We might have to fight for it after the votes go our way but let’s get ready for the fight. So let’s get it.

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