Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2022

Instead of sizing up new opportunities and actively courting every new customer, you start worrying about cutting costs, repeatable processes , and overtaking known competitors. Make sure you actively encourage and enable team members to make decisions in their own realm, with your positive support, rewards, and coaching.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 28, 2022

We've scoured the startup scene to find out which budding businesses have made big waves in 2022 — and whose growth is showing no signs of slowing down. Wander's apex came in 2022, however. Founded in 2021 in Silicon Valley, the startup initially ran on the Solana blockchain platform to host its activities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This situation is only exacerbated by today’s remote work from home , where your work problems are unseen by others, and you have to manage the distractions of normal home activities, including children and pets. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/2/2022. The stress alone from these can be debilitating.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2022

Start by reviewing current statistics, like the recent Social Media Marketing Benchmark Report 2022 , to learn which social media sites are most popular, which features drive the most impact today, and how other social media marketers have maximized their efforts and seen the greatest ROI. You spend the months influencing the influencers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Actively seek guidance from people smarter than you. Leadership elements include clear communication to all, providing support and coaching where required, and driving activities based on the big picture. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 10/31/2022. Strive always to be a leader, rather than a follower.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2022

You can’t build and run a business alone, and it’s even harder if some team members are not fully engaged, or actively working against you. You need to use active listening to unlock the underlying causes, and start giving your best encouragement and mentoring. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 5/18/2022.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2022

Activities, or whole chunks of your business, may have built up over time, but are not contributing to the bottom line. Keep your company focused on the business areas and functions that fit your strategic direction, by periodically eliminating non-contributing activities, organizations, and business units.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

They helped create over 5 million new businesses in 2022, a forty percent increase over the previous year. Networking no longer is primarily a face-to-face serial activity. In my view, starting a new business has never been easier, and according to reports from the Kauffman Foundation , the numbers are here to show it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2022

This requires you or your partner to actively listen to customers, seek out economic and social trends, and keep abreast of the latest technologies. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 7/27/2022. Build business relationships and a personal brand. Start today and enjoy the learning.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Actively seek out and attend key outside business conferences in order to meet and get to know people who can help you, and you can help in return. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/9/2022. This sends a message that this relationship will be valued as well. What goes around comes around.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Does your business have a Chief Innovation Officer or equivalent function to coordinate activities, make sure resources are provided, and ensure execution and achievement of long-term goals? In return, active listening and two-way communication will maximize the value of your impact and results.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2022

However, very quickly after everyone has their assignment as is actively working, you need to let them do their jobs without questioning every step. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 5/22/2022. Don’t hesitate to micro-manage initially in a crisis. Your people need to know who to follow, what to do, and how to do it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Always assume positive intent, stay present, be open-minded, actively listen, the thank the person for their feedback. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 9/25/2022. We all have blind spots, so it is impossible to assess yourself totally objectively. It’s important not to be defensive in listening to feedback.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

They prioritize tasks, define milestones, and measure results versus activities completed. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 11/16/2022. Business success is all about working with people, inside the company, outside with investors and partners, and always with customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Good managers improve focus and productivity through effective communication and coordinating disparate activities. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 10/20/2022. Individual team members all dream of being unleashed. I can see the positives on both sides of this hierarchy argument.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2022

Even if your business is purely local, growth must always be a priority, and you need to utilize all these digital channels available to you today, as well as traditional media channels and industry forums: Maintain an active current presence on the Internet. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 6/28/2022.

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Southern California Edison Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

With more cloud-based activity and remote data storage, tech startups need a network that supports fast upload and download speeds. A managed services provider has the reliable and high-performance infrastructure needed to support video conferencing, sending and downloading large media files, and other internet-intensive activities. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

It is always important to take an active role in employee development, and that starts by recognizing and reinforcing good behavior and results. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 2/3/2022. This is your chance to outline career growth paths for your employee, and suggest ways to take on more responsibility.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2022

To maximize this value, start now in taking a visible and active role in your industry and community. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 2/25/2022. If you are the entrepreneur or owner, every potential investor takes a hard look at you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2022

My recommendation is to actively seek success alternatives from peers and mentors, and following their lead. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 6/21/2022. You avoid making plans too far in advance. You like to leave your schedule open in case something happens, or in case you don’t feel well then.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2022

Actively broaden your business network to new domains. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 6/8/2022. As another example, many entrepreneurs I know enhance their leadership skills by taking on roles mentoring college students and younger peers. New people will give you new perspectives and challenge your own.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2022

Actively build trust and integrity into every relationship. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 8/2/2022. Technical skills are important, but your ability to build and nurture relationships with others is more important for leadership growth and career advancement today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2022

With the outside world, that could mean you need to maintain a personal website, be an active member of industry groups, and show value in social media profiles. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 11/19/2022. Look for opportunities to articulate your value. Humility may be a virtue in some realms, but not today in business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

You should never be embarrassed to admit you didn’t hear it right, since that admission will convince the speaker you have been actively listening, and willing to hear other input. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 1/19/2022. It’s not too late to learn and adapt, and bring your team with you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2022

You need to be confident that you can withstand the mental and emotional stress, find time for the family, and find a balance of non-work social and physical activities. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 8/11/2022. New business creators often defeat themselves by neglecting their physical, mental, and emotional health.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Actively follow up on uncomfortable discussions. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 1/24/2022. As an entrepreneur or business owner, you have to accept the fact that facing tough decisions, and uncomfortable discussions, comes with the territory. That’s a win-win for everyone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2022

The current term for all these activities and results online is “ content marketing.” Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 8/10/2022. We want to make sure you can break down the silos and manage to results. Your credibility and your business success is at stake, so I urge you to always be ready with specifics.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Longer term, the plan will be to look at an IPO provisionally filing the paperwork by summer 2022, Xu added. .” (And for some context, the $1 billion+ valuation is more than double GrubMarket’s valuation in October 2020, when it raised $60 million at a $500 million post-money valuation.). and Canada.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2022

In this new age of rapid change, instant world-wide communication through social media, and public activism, business leaders need to tune their mindset and focus more to the “soft stuff” of the business, as well as the “hard stuff.” Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 3/16/2022.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2022

Make sure your silence isn’t empty by staying actively attentive. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 2/24/2022. There is no benefit to be gained for you to do all the talking and explaining. Let other people do much of the work. Indeed, you always learn more by listening than by talking.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 21, 2020

Now the two women are co-founders of Angel City, leading a gaggle of venture capital, sports, and celebrity investors, alongside Angel City co-founder and President Julie Uhrman, in bringing a National Women’s Soccer League team to Los Angeles by the Spring of 2022.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Here are my key recommendations for how to prepare and what to do in more mundane business environments and organizations: Make sure your activities are aligned with business goals. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 11/24/2022. The same is true with team goals and expectations.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 23, 2018

This is a significant acceleration of Juniper’s prediction in early 2018 that the 50% threshold wouldn’t be crossed until 2022. Many newer automobiles have a form of voice-activated audio, however a 2017 Consumer Reports article noted that, “An average of only 28 percent of owners were very satisfied with voice-command systems.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

The industry has obviously changed enormously in 2022 but in many ways it feels like a “return to normal” that we have seen many times in our industry. Obviously the funding environment has changed considerably in 2022 but as early-stage investors our daily jobs stay largely unchanged. How do we plan to do it?

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The federal government announced that it would be pulling back $1 billion in funding that was slated for the California high-speed rail project through 2022, while also pursuing legal action to help recoup the $2.5 Will “Diet CA-HSR” even get done as feds look to pull back California funding. billion it has already coughed up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2023

Cisco Systems, which was ranked by Fortune magazine as the world’s best place to work in 2022, keeps the focus on employee happiness through putting people first, free counseling sessions through the company's employee assistance program, including a companywide Day for Me. New life experiences have more impact than reward objects.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2022

In the rush of daily activities, it’s hard to find time to carefully craft the right messages to all your constituents, route them through all the right channels, and have any insight that they have been heard and understood. It’s even harder to find time to actively listen to input. My recommendation is to listen more and talk less.

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