Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2022

If you aren’t yet adapting to the market and your customers, you are falling behind. In other words, change in your business has to become the accepted norm, just like it is in your market. Be proactive rather than reactive to market change. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 2/18/2022.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The global meat substitute market was valued at $4.51 Growing up with a father who was a food marketer, Boyd Myers said she saw firsthand what eating a diet of fast-food can do to a person and was always looking for more healthy food options that also had a positive benefit for the planet. AKUA co-founder and CEO Courtney Boyd Myers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2022

A question I often get is how to transform that overall team into a smooth-running machine that will keep up with the pace of market change, and competition in today’s world. It’s up to you to provide clarity around priorities, visualizing the required results, and developing a shared sense of being “in it together.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2022

As a good solution developer, it’s easy for you to see team members only as components of your business solution. I realize that you may want to spare the team your worries over market changes and competitors, but transparency on these matters creates trust and connection, and improves their focus on agility and inspires innovation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2022

Your role is to provide this enablement, through listening to their needs, and providing personal coaching and mentoring as required. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 4/5/2022. Jeff Bezos , founder of Amazon, attributes much of his success to building a motivated and enabled team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

You can’t find the time for coaching and mentoring. Maybe now is the time to bring in outside coaching and motivational speakers, as well as more training. Positive team collaboration is a culture that you must foster to increase productivity and the ability to change with the market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In my experience, developers can be so committed to a technology, such as hydrogen engines for cars, such that they may be unwilling to change as the business pivots for market reasons. Be available for mentoring and coaching to others. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 11/24/2022.

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