Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2022

The largest and most successful businesses of the past have been traditionally driven by autocratic and powerful leaders who managed a highly structured organization of subordinates. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 8/17/2022. Where do you see your fit in this leadership transformation ?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2022

Great communication inside the organization and outside is the key to value. Helping your organization adapt and get ahead, with results, will have a positive impact on everyone, and you will remember. Build good relationships with the people who count in your organization, and focus on what your organization really needs from them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2022

Effective scaling and growth often requires more investment than is available from early organic returns. Organic growth, without utilization of digital channels, is not enough today to stay competitive and achieve long-term success in today’s environment, especially against the large e-commerce players with a global reach.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2022

Great leaders strive to treat each person in their organization as a valued individual, rather than as a “human resource.” Ideally that feedback allows you to understand both absolute performance against goals, and your relative performance in the broader organization. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 1/07/2022.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2022

In my experience, your biggest challenge will be to rationalize the disparate input from your sales and marketing organizations, who each want more resources and more credit for ROI. Here there is no substitute for independent analysis from experts outside the organizations involved.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2022

Get organization alignment through culture and talent. Today even small businesses need complex organizations that work together in alignment, remote and online, including marketing, sales, delivery, and support. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 3/16/2022.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2022

I still find many organizations that think of internal change in terms of months and years, or even worse, suffer from “analysis paralysis,” or studying a problem forever. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 2/18/2022. Demand and reward speedy analysis and execution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

It’s your responsibility to relate to each, and integrate them into a cohesive culture for your organization. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 2/3/2022. You also need to be sensitive that today’s team typically crosses multiple generations of workers, and each generation is motivated by different feelings.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2022

Many of the most successful fashion and even dating organizations were built around a leader with a purpose of personal dedication to a more fulfilling lifestyle. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 6/23/2022. As you grow, so will your team and customers. Satisfy a need for personal lifestyle fulfillment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Based on my own experience working with business leaders in large organizations as well as small, success is all about making the right decisions at the right time. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 10/13/2022. I’m a proponent of always striking the right balance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2022

It never pays to approach new relationships with your favorite complaint, or your view of all the things wrong the world or your organization. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/9/2022. Always be positive and agreeable in early relationships. Find other’s success rather than talking about yourself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Innovation must be embedded in every function of your organization and measured at the highest levels. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/15/2022. Invest in communication skills and use all platforms. In addition to spreading the word internally, you need to create a dialogue externally with partners and customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2022

I still find too many service organizations that ignore or discount online reviews and satisfaction surveys. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 3/4/2022. Another major source of services clients these days is online industry directory sites and ranking review articles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Great people leadership and communication skills are critical here, as well as managing an organization. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 10/17/2022. Rallying the team also requires that they be rewarded for progress and success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2022

Ability to organize and motivate individuals into teams. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 7/27/2022. Their experience is their end-to-end journey with you, starting with how their friends see you, shopping fun, through service and delivery. Pay attention to all. Start today and enjoy the learning.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

For most of the others, it was a crisis where business leaders were challenged like never before to rethink their business model, redefine their organizations, and reconnect with customers. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 8/26/2022. Yet, we all know a few leaders who surged ahead.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2022

Whole Foods , for example, has built their business with a commitment to natural and organic foods, and have a culture of loyal employees and customers, resulting in 500 stores worldwide. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 4/5/2022. As a result, they recently were acquired by Amazon for $13.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2020

According to a recent article on Thrinacia , there are now aver 600 crowdfunding platforms in existence, currently estimated to add more than $89 billion to the economy at a compound growth rate of 17% from 2019 to 2022. Marty Zwilling.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 21, 2020

When Upfront Ventures partner Kara Nortman first met Natalie Portman a few years ago to talk about ways their non-profit organizations All Raise and Time’s Up could collaborate, she never realized they’d eventually be partners on a sports franchise.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

— Sophia Amoruso (@sophiaamoruso) June 1, 2022. Following the complaints, Weiss issued a public apology , and Glossier donated $1 million – half to organizations fighting racial injustice, and half to Black-owned beauty businesses ). . The term itself, though, hasn’t aged nearly as well as Green’s portfolio.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 23, 2018

The research organization CIRP announced in August that sales of smart speakers had exceeded 50 million, with sales expected to grow 48% over the following twelve months. This is a significant acceleration of Juniper’s prediction in early 2018 that the 50% threshold wouldn’t be crossed until 2022. The entire report is available HERE.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The whole point of delegating investment decisions to a GP is to empower them to organize their firm to win deals and get stuff done. The firm negotiates a fairly standard agreement with its limited partners, and then the LPs are pissed because the firm isn’t spending the money on massive staff and large, expensive offices?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Lack of accountability can permeate an entire organization. Of course, at all levels of an organization or business, there are opportunities for accountability that can make or break your career or your leadership perception in the eyes of others. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 11/24/2022.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Sources should include local startup incubators, blog owners, and government support organizations, such as SCORE. Every industry organization has regular local meetings and annual conferences for education purposes and bringing the right people together. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 8/24/2022.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2022

Great business leaders, including Richard Branson , who oversees over 400 companies controlled by the Virgin Group, believe that poor communication can and has cost large organizations millions or more per year. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 5/25/2022. Speak from your personal identity rather than any business title.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Studies show that a positive team culture in an organization can result in 26 percent fewer mistakes, 22 percent higher productivity, 41 percent lower absenteeism, and 30 percent stronger customer satisfaction. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 1/26/2022. A healthy team culture is another key driver for growth and winning.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 24, 2022

You may be the single leader that initiated your business or organization, but you will find that many more leaders are required to keep it healthy and growing. Thus a key part of every leader’s job is finding and nurturing those hidden leaders in every organization, and recruiting new ones from the outside.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2022

All great business organization are internally competitive, and thrive on recognition. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 7/8/2022. Yet I eventually learned that leadership is not always about saying new and exciting things to everyone, but about repeating key things until all are really heard.

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