Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2019

In fact, I have found from personal experience and mentoring that both of these are necessary, but not sufficient, for building a business. Great leaders learn to listen actively to conversations, so people don’t hold up progress just to be understood. Disruptive office politics start to show. Investments and acquisitions fail.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 4, 2020

It’s with profound sadness we mourn the loss of a true visionary, author, mentor, thought-leader, investor, and friend, Tony Hsieh. Under Hsieh’s leadership, Zappos revolutionized the apparel industry, and e-commerce in general, by being one of the first to prioritize customer satisfaction and service. By Frank Gruber and Jen Consalvo.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2016

Similarly, it will be very satisfying to see the productivity increases from your leadership and mentoring. New business models that provide an ongoing revenue stream, or a secondary stream from advertising, raise your margins and can give you some additional satisfaction. Celebrate the ability to pay yourself a salary.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2015

The visibility of Google, Facebook and a few others continues to propagate the myth that the ultimate objective of every entrepreneur should be to take their startups public via an initial public offering at the earliest opportunity. Facebook, for example, ended up raising almost $16 billion through its IPO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2015

Similarly, it will be very satisfying to see the productivity increases from your leadership and mentoring. New business models that provide an ongoing revenue stream, or a secondary stream from advertising, raise your margins and can give you some additional satisfaction. dream entrepreneur inspiration perspiration startup'

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2014

In fact, I have found from personal experience and mentoring that both of these are necessary, but not sufficient, for building a business. Great leaders learn to listen actively to conversations, so people don’t hold up progress just to be understood. Disruptive office politics start to show. Investments and acquisitions fail.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

In fact, I have found from personal experience and mentoring that both of these are necessary, but not sufficient, for building a business. Great leaders learn to listen actively to conversations, so people don’t hold up progress just to be understood. Disruptive office politics start to show. Investments and acquisitions fail.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Whether it be in a startup or a large enterprise, everyone can name those few individuals who stand out as unstoppable, and always seem to be in the forefront of results. In the enterprise environment, Jack Welch led GE through 600 acquisitions in emerging markets, to a market value of $280 billion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2021

In most companies, maintaining momentum requires the right strategic partners and acquisitions, in lieu of short-term price adjustments and special sales. Utilize outside expertise and mentoring. Your long-term success and satisfaction depends on it. The company has since gone public, and is still a market leader.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2022

In today’s fast moving world of business startups, learning trumps knowing every time. I’m convinced that’s why most mature companies are slowing down or buying their innovation through acquisition, rather than building it. Progress on the learning curve is their satisfaction. Reverse the learning role with new team members.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2020

In today’s fast moving world of business startups, learning trumps knowing every time. I’m convinced that’s why most mature companies are slowing down or buying their innovation through acquisition, rather than building it. Progress on the learning curve is their satisfaction. Reverse the learning role with new team members.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2018

In today’s fast moving world of business startups, learning trumps knowing every time. I’m convinced that’s why most mature companies are slowing down or buying their innovation through acquisition, rather than building it. Progress on the learning curve is their satisfaction. Reverse the learning role with new team members.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2014

In today’s fast moving world of business startups, learning trumps knowing every time. I’m convinced that’s why most mature companies are slowing down or buying their innovation through acquisition, rather than building it. Progress on the learning curve is their satisfaction. Reverse the learning role with new team members.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

In today’s fast moving world of business startups, learning trumps knowing every time. I’m convinced that’s why most mature companies are slowing down or buying their innovation through acquisition, rather than building it. Progress on the learning curve is their satisfaction. Reverse the learning role with new team members.

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