Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2019

The canvas is a visual chart with elements describing your value proposition, structure, finances, and customers, to help companies identify and align business activities. As an active angel investor, I look for this level of alignment and understanding in every funding presentation I hear. Value propositions. Key resources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2023

Obviously, it’s not that simple, but making the right first impression is critical for an entrepreneur, not just with investors, but also with partners, customers, and even yourself. Able to balance right-brain and left-brain activities. Don’t demand or expect immediate gratification.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2023

Here is my list of eight key strategies and tactics, gleaned from my own observations and feedback, which I believe will define you as a trusted leader, and will result in loyal teams to amplify your business initiatives into long-term success and satisfaction: Share your values and expectations to everyone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

There is more and more evidence that a more human-centered or heart-centered leadership yields the best results with your team and with customers in the long run. Great leaders learn to listen actively to conversations, so people don’t hold up progress just to be understood. Customer relationships culture is slipping.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2022

Passion is great, but it must be backed by data, confirming a real problem and customers willing and able to pay for your solution. Too many business people let the daily challenges cause them to revert to emotional and autocratic demands, failure to communicate, and inability to coach and mentor team members.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2014

There is more and more evidence that a more human-centered or heart-centered leadership yields the best results with your team and with customers in the long run. Great leaders learn to listen actively to conversations, so people don’t hold up progress just to be understood. Customer relationships culture is slipping.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2023

If you're asking someone else and wish to build that connection, be actively present during the interaction. Start by getting people comfortable with what they don’t know, showing them you are open to new ideas, and don’t demand perfection in all deliverables. You need both to create better outcomes and increase job satisfaction.

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

With Generative AI and LLMs, new avenues for improving operational efficiency and user satisfaction are emerging every day. In layman's terms, while conventional search mechanisms demand exact phrases or keywords to return relevant results, LLMs can understand and interpret the intent and context behind a query.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

That means full transparency and no excuses for issues and activities that are obviously in your domain. If you demand accountability, but expect to make every decision, both of you will fail. Unfortunately, I often see goal misalignments with teams, such as marketing measured on sales volume, or sales measured on customer retention.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2019

They don’t realize that they are missing out on a great opportunity for “free” promotion, as well as taking a great risk by not listening to what customers are saying, and not monitoring or responding to undeserved challenges to their reputation. More social media activity doesn’t mean a higher return on investment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2019

There is more and more evidence that a more human-centered or heart-centered leadership yields the best results with your team and with customers in the long run. Great leaders learn to listen actively to conversations, so people don’t hold up progress just to be understood. Customer relationships culture is slipping.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2017

The canvas is a visual chart with elements describing your value proposition, structure, finances, and customers, to help companies identify and align business activities. As an active angel investor, I look for this level of alignment and understanding in every funding presentation I hear. Value propositions. Key resources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Too many customers have long felt distanced from many successful brands, seeing them as closed and mysterious environments, focused only on profits and killing competitors. These are responding to the demands of this new world for collaboration, trust, and transparency. Shared and collaborative activity (connectedness).

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Most entrepreneurs see their new venture as a fun adventure, until the pressures of a cash flow crisis, or a manufacturing quality problem, or a major customer satisfaction problem hits. Fun and humor will also offset the tension in dealing with tough customer issues, resulting in higher satisfaction, loyalty, and referrals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2019

We are living in a new generation of business, where customers drive the experience, and highly engaged employees are required to keep up with customer expectations. Over 16 percent of workers are still actively disengaged , and half have left at least one job because they hated their boss.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

The company is actually based out of LA, too, but has completed its initial launch in Minnesota, where there’s greater demand for short-term bus travel. HappyOrNot nabs $25M for its customer satisfaction terminals . The business has closed a $3.85 Landline isn’t just a few buses with startup branding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2015

Too many customers have long felt distanced from many successful brands, seeing them as closed and mysterious environments, focused only on profits and killing competitors. These are responding to the demands of this new world for collaboration, trust, and transparency. Shared and collaborative activity (connectedness).

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

The challenge is that every new business needs to be innovative and different, in order to rise above the crowd, bring real change to the world, and give you the satisfaction you seek. Every entrepreneur needs to leverage social media for better marketing, requirements, and customer service. I wish it was that easy. Cloud Computing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2018

Unfortunately, innovation means change, and most business professionals and existing customers, by default, hate change. This takes leadership from the top, and an ongoing focus on market change, customer feedback, and internal measurement and rewards. Let customer value be the driver, rather than cost savings.

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Satisfaction Startup Competition Customer 53

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

Too many customers have long felt distanced from many successful brands, seeing them as closed and mysterious environments, focused only on profits and killing competitors. These are responding to the demands of this new world for collaboration, trust, and transparency. Shared and collaborative activity (connectedness).

Organization 57

Organization Social Media Customer Custom 57

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2014

Too many customers have long felt distanced from many successful brands, seeing them as closed and mysterious environments, focused only on profits and killing competitors. These are responding to the demands of this new world for collaboration, trust, and transparency. Shared and collaborative activity (connectedness).

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Organization Social Media Customer Custom 93

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2015

The challenge is that every new business needs to be innovative and different, in order to rise above the crowd, bring real change to the world, and give you the satisfaction you seek. Every entrepreneur needs to leverage social media for better marketing, requirements, and customer service. I wish it was that easy. Cloud Computing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2017

The challenge is that every new business needs to be innovative and different, in order to rise above the crowd, bring real change to the world, and give you the satisfaction you seek. Every entrepreneur needs to leverage social media for better marketing, requirements, and customer service. I wish it was that easy. Cloud Computing.

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Cloud Computing Startup Social Media Networking 61

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

The challenge is that every new business needs to be innovative and different, in order to rise above the crowd, bring real change to the world, and give you the satisfaction you seek. Every entrepreneur needs to leverage social media for better marketing, requirements, and customer service. I wish it was that easy. Cloud Computing.

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Cloud Computing Social Media Entrepreneur Networking 99

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2015

There is more and more evidence that a more human-centered or heart-centered leadership yields the best results with your team and with customers in the long run. Great leaders learn to listen actively to conversations, so people don’t hold up progress just to be understood. Customer relationships culture is slipping.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

There is more and more evidence that a more human-centered or heart-centered leadership yields the best results with your team and with customers in the long run. Great leaders learn to listen actively to conversations, so people don’t hold up progress just to be understood. Customer relationships culture is slipping.

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Training Coach Startup Entrepreneur 55

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2012

They actively listen and don’t put themselves ahead of others. Being authentic and genuine makes you attractive to your customers, respected by your team, and effective as a leader. Startup businesses are very demanding. This will reduce stress and increase satisfaction. They allow others to be the best they can be.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 4, 2011

The story begins with the unwitting, future customer relaxing and reading the paper. Rather, the Prospect’s kneejerk rejection of Sam is a coping mechanism that many people utilize to deal with the competing demands on their time. For sake of grammatical convenience, I will refer to Sam as a male in the remainder of this entry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

They actively listen and don’t put themselves ahead of others. Being authentic and genuine makes you attractive to your customers, respected by your team, and effective as a leader. Startup businesses are very demanding. This will reduce stress and increase satisfaction. They allow others to be the best they can be.

Entrepreneur 93

Entrepreneur Demand Outsource Satisfaction 93

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2011

He went on to explain a bit about the customer development model from Blanks: State business model assumptions. Finally, came the headliners, the three false prophets, defined as: activities that provide positive feedback, but don’t necessarily contribute to the search for a sustainable business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

They actively listen and don’t put themselves ahead of others. Being authentic and genuine makes you attractive to your customers, respected by your team, and effective as a leader. Startup businesses are very demanding. This will reduce stress and increase satisfaction. They allow others to be the best they can be.

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Entrepreneur Demand Outsource Satisfaction 48

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

You get the personal satisfaction of making something out of almost nothing. As your services gain demand, your time becomes more valuable and you can charge more. Ask satisfied customers to spread the word on yelp, tripadvisor, Angieslist, etc., Customer service is free. You get to call the shots.

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