Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

So here are my own top recommendations on how to think about your business aspirations, and put innovation in perspective among all the other priorities you will need to achieve success and satisfaction with your role on the road ahead. Look for technologies to adapt from other domains. Analyze all failures for learning opportunities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Proof of any business model starts with a finished product or solution, sold to a new customer for full price, with high satisfaction for the value received. Everyone on your team must maintain the mindset that customers are the key to your business model, rather than technology or accounting.

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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. I’m sure you can find some gaps, niches, or extensions for each of these technologies: Internet of Things. I wish it was that easy. Cloud Computing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Use this opportunity to validate their satisfaction and support for your company and your solution. A hard look will be taken at the technology maturity, the current development progress, and customer satisfaction with early product shipments. Visit reference customers, partners, and vendors. Status of the solution.

Technical Review 118

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2022

The canvas is a visual chart with elements describing your value proposition, structure, finances, and customers, to help companies identify and align business activities. Every team needs to understand how their activities relate to customer revenue. Key activities. It forces you to bridge the gap between idea and execution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2023

It’s amazing how quickly these activities lead to leadership or management opportunities. The technology and tools in this discipline have improved dramatically over the years, so be sure you stay current and knowledgeable over time. Stretch here also increases job satisfaction. Find what works for you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

These days, with all the new technology, including smartphones and social media, many are convinced that multi-tasking is the answer. Practicing these will ensure greater productivity, less stress, more job satisfaction, and an improved overall sense of well-being. It means you may not actually see today’s reality.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

As a long-time business advisor, and an investor in startups along the way, I’m always on the lookout for an entrepreneur who is responding first to a problem in the marketplace , rather than bringing a new technology to the market, assuming it will find a problem to solve. The Internet and social media are also a key knowledge source.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Originally called Dopamine Labs, the company was founded in 2015 to bring some of the same technologies that social media companies like Facebook used to boost engagement to a broader range of applications. “We can use technology to hook people to unhook them from unhealthy behaviors.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2021

Use this opportunity to validate their satisfaction and support for your company and your solution. A hard look will be taken at the technology maturity, the current development progress, and customer satisfaction with early product shipments. Visit reference customers, partners, and vendors. Status of the solution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2021

Every entrepreneur should consciously follow these five key actions and implementation tips, to compete and survive, as well as to get the personal satisfaction they expect from the lifestyle: Act on the important, don’t react to the urgent. Decide what is most important and get those activities in the bucket before the week begins.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Every entrepreneur needs to compare his strengths and aspirations to this business mindset: Satisfaction from business success versus the big idea. Business owners get their satisfaction from happy customers and happy stakeholders. Relish repeatable activities and processes versus new challenges.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2020

These holidays, with all the new technology, including smartphones and social media, many are convinced that multi-tasking is the answer. Practicing these will ensure greater productivity, less stress, more job satisfaction, and an improved overall sense of well-being. It means you may not actually see today’s reality.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Entrepreneurs and business executives seem to be even more focused on their technology than the rest of us, and less inclined to listen to the voice of the customer, even if they remember to ask. It’s harder, but necessary, to resist the response urge and actively listen to customers, while logging their input for later analysis.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2016

I believe the right attributes and habits can be recognized and learned, and here are seven key ones that I find in successful entrepreneurs: Actively recruits others and solicits win-win relationships. Asks hard questions, and actively listens to critical feedback. Positive relationship building is always a plus.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2019

With the current strong economy I’m seeing a continued resurgence of entrepreneurial spirit, and more startup activity than ever before. In addition, young businesses that are still active after one year continues to hover at nearly 80%. Most now routinely buy startups for new technology and new products. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2021

Proof of any business model starts with a finished product or solution, sold to a new customer for full price, with high satisfaction for the value received. Everyone on your team must maintain the mindset that customers are the key to your business model, rather than technology or accounting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2021

First, you as the leader must be a role model for the actions you desire – including positive communication, active coaching, rewards for results, as well as providing required tools and training. Today’s complex environments requires the use of innovative systems and technology for timely and reliable feedback from customers and colleagues.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2017

Many entrepreneurs think that adapting to the new technologies, like smart phones and Internet commerce, are the key to attracting new customers. High-technology product startups, without customers, don’t make a business. The result is that over 60% of online shoppers are brand loyal due to other online satisfaction data.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2020

Today there are a wealth of disruptive technologies available, including the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), advanced virtual reality (VR), and high-function robotics. Here are some keys to that mindset that I have seen working for successful entrepreneurs: Think customer-centric rather than technology-centric.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Actively seek out and attend key outside business conferences in order to meet and get to know people who can help you, and you can help in return. These may include shared business financial objectives, technology advancements, or shared career goals. Don’t forget entertainment or family connections. What goes around comes around.

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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. You need both to create better outcomes and increase job satisfaction. I’ve found that you can best start by asking for another perspective, whether of yourself or a team member. Really seek to understand the other person.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2023

The business world doesn’t thrive with yet another social media or dating site – it’s begging for paradigm shifts in the technology or business model. The best entrepreneurs relish the challenges, and get great satisfaction from overcoming and learning from adversity. Practice active listening, and accept reality quickly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2022

Over 16 percent of workers are still actively disengaged , and half have left at least one job because they hated their boss. An effective leader is intellectually curious, constantly learning, and genuinely in pursuit of wisdom about people, places, technologies, scientific advances, economies and cultures.

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Customer Custom Coach Satisfaction 152

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2019

Most workers are still rushing to retirement, where they hope to escape to more stimulating activities with a real sense of accomplishment. The pillars of change she details include the following: Embracing and adapting to technology. More people as a substitute for technology is not a solution. No one is happy or satisfied.

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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. Key activities. Key resources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Moving forward, you should expect the market volatility to increase, driven not only by customers, but by new technology, changing government regulations, and a surge in new competitors. Innovation doesn’t happen without active leadership, a mindset of commitment from the team, and a defined process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2023

I’m not suggesting that you model your startup after the complex corporate organizations you hated in your last job, but there are at least eight key functions and activities that every investor expects to find in a startup proposal with any real potential to change the world. Formalize the use of tools and information technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The best new idea for any entrepreneur should first be based on their own personal interests, skills, and lifestyle, rather than the characteristics of a given market or technology. Don’t pick a technology idea that someone else believes will make you rich and famous, or a business area you are not intimately familiar with.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2020

Every entrepreneur needs to compare his strengths and aspirations to this business mindset: Satisfaction from business success versus the big idea. Business owners get their satisfaction from happy customers and happy stakeholders. Relish repeatable activities and processes versus new challenges.

Ideas 127

Ideas Entrepreneur Satisfaction Summary 127

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Good managers improve focus and productivity through effective communication and coordinating disparate activities. Most experts agree that the key to worker productivity, decision making, and satisfaction, is raising their level of engagement from the currently low thirty percent range.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2022

Many entrepreneurs think that adapting to the new technologies, like smart phones and Internet commerce, are the key to attracting new customers. High-technology product startups, without customers, don’t make a business. The result is that over 60% of online shoppers are brand loyal due to other online satisfaction data.

Customer 122

Customer Custom Social Media Technical Review 122

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2021

We didn’t notice as technology advances had opened a whole new market. Now, as a business advisor to large companies, as well as small ones, my objective is to foster those activities and ways of thinking that broaden the potential for high creativity and recognizing new market opportunities, before resource constraints are applied.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2022

Even if your business is purely local, growth must always be a priority, and you need to utilize all these digital channels available to you today, as well as traditional media channels and industry forums: Maintain an active current presence on the Internet. Secure outside expansion funding through investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

The best new idea for any entrepreneur should first be based on their own personal interests, skills, and lifestyle, rather than the characteristics of a given market or technology. Don’t pick a technology idea that someone else believes will make you rich and famous, or a business area you are not intimately familiar with.

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Ideas Satisfaction Entrepreneur Activity 108

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Pervasive access to the Internet and social media have allowed customers to take an active role in helping other customers, with customer support, requirements definition, and open source development. Your long-term survival and satisfaction depend on it. Outsource services back to the customer. Force original intent thinking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

Since the recession, and at least partially sparked by it, I’m seeing a real resurgence of entrepreneurial spirit, and more startup activity than ever before. The rate of new entrepreneurs increased about 10 percent, from 280 out of 100,000 adults in the 2014 Startup Activity Index, to 310 out of 100,000 adults in the 2015 Index.

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