Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Everyone seems to espouse extrinsic motivations, such as getting rich, having power, and fulfilling parent dreams, when in fact a focus on satisfying internal interests and desires will likely lead to more success, as well as satisfaction. Satisfaction of doing something great. Find personal meaning from building a business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Jim Sterne, who has written many books on Internet advertising, marketing, and customer service, tackled this complex world of social media metrics in a classic book titled simply " Social Media Metrics." He suggests you begin with the “big three” business objectives of higher revenue, reduced costs, and improved customer satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

According to one of my favorite authors, Brian Tracy, in his book “ The Power of Self-Discipline ,” happiness is not even a goal that you can aim at and achieve in and of itself, but it is a by-product that comes to you when you are engaged in doing something you really enjoy while in the company of people you like and respect.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2021

The best part of being an entrepreneur is having the independence to make your own decisions, the flexibility for a better work/life balance, and personal satisfaction from driving change. You can’t build a great company without help. But nobody said it would be easy. Every great business is made up of a core group of key components.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2019

Most of you aspiring entrepreneurs have no idea how dramatically your own role has to evolve as you develop a solution, start a business, and expect it to scale into a successful self-managed company. Thus my job as a small business advisor really is really more about getting you developed than perfecting the business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

I found these pillars, and the first principles behind them, pulled together well in a classic book, “ Embracing Progress: Next Steps For The Future Of Work ,” by A. Employee engagement is a measure of emotional commitment, leading to work focus, which translates to productivity, satisfaction and happiness. Sophie Wade.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2022

A key influencer of satisfaction and motivation, top-ranked by employees, is positive progress and the completion of meaningful work. These points are illustrated in detail in “ The Progress Principle ,” a classic book from the Harvard Business School, by Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2022

Gregg Lederman, in his classic book, “ ENGAGED!: At work, all team members (everyone who gets paid for doing a job at the company) are on stage responsible for delivering a branded experience to coworkers and customers. Use a company-wide assessment at least twice a year to understand and remind the team to out-behave the competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

I always thought that I must be lucky to have found so much excitement and satisfaction from my work, so I never had any really good answers to those of you who second category who wanted to move to the first. Don’t make commitments that have no potential for positive return on your effort, or no potential for learning or satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

They ask me for a perspective on the pros and cons of that dream, the potential for increased satisfaction , and the probability of their long-term growth and success. In that context, I was pleased with the guidance and real data presented in a new book, “ Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution ,” by Uri Levine.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2020

According to Gallup surveys , job satisfaction for employees is at an all-time low. As a mentor to many aspiring entrepreneurs, I’m often asked what it takes to switch and get real satisfaction from this lifestyle. I found some great help in outlining the elements of this process in the classic book, “ Disruptors ,” by Kunal Mehta.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Unfortunately, in mature companies, a larger and larger percentage of employees forget company survival and customers as the objectives, and focus only on their own personal gain. People in larger organizations move away from day-to-day contact with the end customer, and focus becomes company internal and isolated.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Here are some tips from a classic book by Harvey Mackay, “ Use Your Head to Get Your Foot in the Door ,” which work even better in a startup than they do in a bigger company: Make yourself indispensable. It pays to be visible in any way that’s positive for the company. Don’t hang out with gloom and doom. Think big picture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2023

How will work productivity and quality be impacted, and what effect will it have on personal careers, job satisfaction, and work-life balance? In this context, I was pleased to find some positive guidance from real experts in a new book, “ Thrive With A Hybrid Workplace ,” by Felice Ekelman, JD, and Julie Kantor, PhD.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2021

I was happy to see quantified evidence of this in a new book, “ Winning on Purpose ,” by Fred Reichhheld, creator of the Net Promoter system of management, in concert with Darci Darnell and Maureen Burns. A popular set of metrics for customer views is the New Promoter System ( NPS ), available from Bain & Company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2022

The result is that customer satisfaction in unachievable or at least very expensive. As the company matures, and you learn more about your customers and your market, then it is time to go broader or deeper. Products that have features which are unfocused, or aimed at too broad an audience, can be almost impossible to support.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2023

That’s why I’m impressed with the classic book, “ All Dreams on Deck: Charting the Course for Your Life and Work ,” by Jeremy Cage. In his book, he couches his guidance in a real-life metaphor of his sailing trip around the world. I’ve always wished I had a magic metaphor to motivate the best dreamers to become the best entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2020

More than ever before, people want to buy from, work for, and invest in companies that matter. Your company and team members have to be seen as going above and beyond to solve the problems of internal and external customers. Companies that matter focus beyond the buy/sell transaction view of the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

He went on to start many successful companies, including General Electric. I recently found a wealth of practical guidance on how to build a perseverance mindset and use it to overcome adversity, break through barriers, and keep moving forward to success, in a new book, “ Win When They Say You Won’t ,” by Daphne Jones.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Here are some examples from their book and my experience of the many indicators, challenges that entrepreneurs will probably recognize, which highlight the value and need for increased focus on the human element: Collaborative team sessions seem to drag on. Top team members rarely quit the company. Difficulties retaining key employees.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Creating the right company culture must be a top priority of every entrepreneur and business leader. Transforming an existing culture is even harder than setting it correctly at the start, as outlined in the classic book, “ Cultural Transformations ,” by leadership experts John Mattone and Nick Vaidya.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

I remember the classic book, “ Driven to Delight ,” by Joseph A. Michelli, with inspiring stories on how one well-known company, Mercedes-Benz, made the transition and is profiting as a result. Ask key team members to step outside the company and record their experience as a customer looking in.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

I found some excellent guidance on the specifics in the classic book, “ What Customers Crave ,” by Nicholas J. The total customer experience includes identifying with your company culture, the shopping experience, the customer-facing team and social media interaction, as well as resolution of any transaction glitches.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

Creating the right company culture must be a top priority of every entrepreneur and business leader. Transforming an existing culture is even harder than setting it correctly at the start, as outlined in a new book, “ Cultural Transformations ,” by leadership experts John Mattone and Nick Vaidya.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2023

I found some excellent guidance on the specifics in the classic book, “ What Customers Crave ,” by Nicholas J. The total customer experience includes identifying with your company culture, the shopping experience, the customer-facing team and social media interaction, as well as resolution of any transaction glitches.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2022

They know how to communicate what they have to the best advantage, and generate more results and satisfaction for all parties. As a technologist, I’ve always focused on the solution, but only learned the hard way about persuasion drivers, which I found summarized well in a new book, “ Amplify Your Influence ,” by Rene Rodriguez.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2016

More than ever before, people want to buy from, work for, and invest in companies that matter. Your company and team members have to be seen as going above and beyond to solve the problems of internal and external customers. Companies that matter focus beyond the buy/sell transaction view of the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

All prefer more flexible hours, the chance to work from home, and the traditions of lifetime loyalty to one company no longer apply. Loyalty to a given company now has to be inspired rather than assumed. Measuring attendance-only from nine-to-five is not satisfying or productive for the company or the team. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2019

Jim Sterne, who has written many books on Internet advertising, marketing, and customer service, tackled this complex world of social media metrics in a classic book titled simply " Social Media Metrics." Action is when people are drawn into a profitable and sustainable relationship with your company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. For startups, the entrepreneur and founder is almost always the face of the company. How much goodwill can you and your company command today?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

As a business consultant with experience in large companies as well as startups, I often hear about dysfunctional management hierarchies, as well as the value provided by exceptional ones. These authors provide inside details of recent management experiments, as well as historical data from both successful and failed traditional companies.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Landline , the operator of a bus network in the Midwest, is one of the latest companies to raise venture capital. 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. WordPress parent company Automattic secures $300M.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Chip Bell and Ron Zemke, who are experts in this area, provide some of the best specific insights I’ve seen, in the classic book “ Managing Knock Your Socks Off Service.” Train them fully, give them authority, make them accountable, and tie their pay to customer satisfaction. Know your customers intimately. Marty Zwilling

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

But very quickly, it is becoming obvious to startups that the value and satisfaction exceeds the costs. I believe this option will continue to spread to other companies, states and countries. More and more customers choose a company based on their perceptions about the good that they do, as well as the price and service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2021

Thus I was pleased to see that it’s consistent with the guidance in a new book, “ Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most ,” by Greg McKeown, a well-respected author and public speaker on business breakthroughs. they still find time to meet and compare notes regularly, and are avid readers of business books.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 4, 2020

has a history with Tony, as he became an investor in the company in 2013, and built a lasting friendship with us as the Tech.co Tony was also our neighbor for 8 years in downtown Las Vegas, where the company grew its homebase and hosted monthly events for locals and visitors from around the world, with Hsieh’s Downtown Project.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2021

As an advisor to new entrepreneurs and new ventures, I’m seeing a refreshing new focus by Millennials on work and successful new companies with a purpose, and more productivity through happy employees. There are many good articles which outline what these companies do right. Marty Zwilling.

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