Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2023

Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy. A few are still trying to make a profitable business out of nurturing startups, but it’s a challenge to make money when your customer startups don’t have many resources to give.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Your people on the customer front lines have the input you need on institutional changes required. Synthesize empathy with customers with new trends. Build a deep understanding of customer needs and ecosystem megatrends through interviews, focus groups, data analytics, and your own transformation team research.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2023

Test specifics and potential on friends, advisors, and potential customers. To succeed in business, every passion and purpose has to be translated into real products, services, customers, and impact on the community. Measure customer value perception at every stage. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 06/06/2023

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2023

Everyone in the company must adopt the principles of customer-first focus, agility in responding to change, and constant innovation to improve your processes as well as the solution. Seek customer feedback on ways to improve value and satisfaction. Make customer experience your key priority.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 19, 2023

Ask questions of your customers, team members, and experts now to determine what the landscape will look like in the next five or ten years. Develop leadership that owns their decisions. Your role is to make sure there is support in place to encourage and validate the decision making role as employees continue to develop it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2023

Don’t fail to develop the proper comprehensive metrics for assessing how you and any partners are doing in terms of value creation. It is vitally important to leverage your efforts to maximize all key constituents, including customers, team members, partners, and other stakeholders. Not having a means to measure holistic impact.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2023

You must be committed to developing a growth mindset in others around you to help them aspire to new challenges and achievements. Develop self-awareness of your triggers. This promotes more psychological safety, better relationships, and allows all to work effectively in uncomfortable situations with customers and peers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2023

After digging deeper, I find that most of these cases are not intentional , and the guilty may not even be aware of bad habits which are hurting their image and antagonizing management and customers. For example, you may have customers waiting for a call-back on an issue, or a team member waiting for your work before they can move forward.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2023

Every business organization, large or small, has a variety of individual and team member types that factor into your ability to innovate and change the business to meet evolving customer needs and competition. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 04/26/2023 As a result, these people often end up disheartened.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Here's a roundup of some grants to be aware of in 2024: FedEx Small Business Grant The National Association for the Self Employed (NASE) Growth Grants Program Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) Business Grants Amber Business Grants For Women The USDA Rural Business Enterprise Grants (RBEG) Program ? Apply here Deadline: Monthly 5.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Innovative technologies require iterative development, while other ideas are primarily marketing and financial. These relationships must be nurtured over time, balanced against your personal life, and grow to include major customers, competitors, and potential acquirers. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 09/14/2023

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2023

It’s all about contributing and being connected to team and company values for improving the lives of customers, or possibly a higher-level purpose, such as saving the environment. Another important driver of meaning at work is how the work relates to your career or personal development. Make it work now for you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Develop metrics to monitor work intensity. Work intensity could be anything from number of meetings in a day, to number of production line emergencies, to number of angry customers during a shift. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 1/18/2023 Let that be part of their job satisfaction.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Its target customers are millennials traveling in groups or families swayed by the size and scope of the accommodation — typically five times bigger than the average hotel room — as well as the price, which is on average 25% cheaper than a hotel room. and globally to 25 markets by next year, up from 12 today.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Urban Movement Labs, launched in November 2019, is a public-private partnership involving local government and companies to develop, test and deploy transportation technologies. The company previously said it plans to unveil its full-scale eVTOL later this year and is aiming to begin volume manufacturing in 2023.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Walmart’s been investing heavily in its e-commerce capabilities — too heavily for some investors’ tastes , in fact — in an effort to make up ground on Amazon and Google , both of which are already deep into the drone development process. The primary e-commerce change would come in the form of new customer expectations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2023

I’m sure you can imagine how much that impacts any business or startup’s ability to react to changing customer needs and growth opportunities, no matter how insightful their leaders. If you and your team are confident in each other, and proud of your business solution, you will not be afraid to innovate as customer requirements change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 11, 2023

For example, the development of reusable rocket technology by SpaceX and Amazon, who could not match NASA supplier budgets, has opened huge new opportunities in space travel and exploration. I’m often asked for the secret to this attribute in developing a team culture. This also applies to key customers as well as strategic partners.

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