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7 Keys To Sustainably Enriching Your Customers’ Lives

Startup Professionals Musings

As I talk to many of you in my role as business advisor, I still often hear the concern for maximum return to the business and stakeholders, more than a passion for sustainably enriching the lives of your customers and team. This applies to your own team, as well as customers. Make every customer experience memorable.

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6 Tips For Ramping Up Your Work Culture For Tomorrow

Startup Professionals Musings

It seems they are both looking for more personal satisfaction and sense of purpose for their efforts. Based on my experience as a business advisor, I recommend that every business owner and entrepreneur focus on the following tips to provide a better work culture: Invest in integrating new technology, not just forcing it.

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7 Ways To Raise Your Visibility As A Business Leader

Startup Professionals Musings

Most investors will readily admit that they invest in entrepreneur leadership, more so than innovative ideas, but they often find it difficult to separate aspiring leaders from those that are clearly extraordinary. A community requires two-way communication and respect – including advisors, partners, and customers.

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6 Ways To Improve Your Odds Of New Business Success

Startup Professionals Musings

I recommend a trial run with an experiment or MVP (minimum viable product), at full price and cost, before the big bang launch, risking your investment money and a major time commitment. Look for validation from your mainstream customers. It’s an amazing ride, and there is no satisfaction like creating something out of nothing.

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8 Personal Attributes Mitigate Startup Funding Risks

Startup Professionals Musings

Investors expect a great return for their risk, so they look for people who can look beyond the technology and their own passion to see a customer need that perhaps even the rest of us haven’t yet envisioned. It is no secret that investors invest as much or more in the person, rather than the solution.

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8 Keys To Innovation And Responding To Market Change

Startup Professionals Musings

If you see yourself or your company ignoring any of these, now is the time to take action: Invest in a new market, as well as new features. Employee and customer input are good for fixing bugs, but not good leading indicators. In addition, team member engagement and loyalty depend largely on the satisfaction of creativity.

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5 Ways To Make It Easier To Do What Matters At Work

Startup Professionals Musings

Start with your own story, the mission of your business, and how to make everyone in your domain, including customers, into advocates and teachers. If you invest the time and effort to install and upgrade processes and systems, you can replicate results and grow the business without multiplying your own efforts.