Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2016

Most business managers preach that the key to success is holding employees accountable for actions, but I have found that successful entrepreneurs are all about holding themselves accountable. Usually the real culprit is procrastination, lack of focus, or low productivity and lack of metrics. Wait and hope for a miracle.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2022

Thus, in my mentoring of potential technical entrepreneurs who have a real passion for their technology, I often recommend that they find a co-founder who can manage the marketing and execution elements of the new venture. Many smart people I know fall into the category of “idea” people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2015

Most business managers preach that the key to success is holding employees accountable for actions, but I have found that successful entrepreneurs are all about holding themselves accountable. Usually the real culprit is procrastination, lack of focus, or low productivity and lack of metrics. Wait and hope for a miracle.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 15, 2013

I saw some real guidance in a new book by Loc de Brabandere and Alan Iny, “ Thinking in New Boxes.” While the focus of the book is really on business creativity, the following triggers were outlined as weak signals which should not be overlooked in your efforts to think outside the box, or think in a new box: A changing value proposition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2011

If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Within each of the platform categories defined above, there is a right one and a wrong one for your audience. Return-On-Investment metrics are not new, but the tools are different.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2017

I saw some real guidance in the classic book by Loc de Brabandere and Alan Iny, “ Thinking in New Boxes.” Another example is seeing substitute versions of a product, like eBooks, for a low price displacing hardcover books. Changes in your organization’s core performance metrics. New unmet consumer or customer needs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2017

If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Within each of the platform categories defined above, there is a right one and a wrong one for your audience. Return-On-Investment metrics are not new, but the tools are different.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2015

I like the insights outlined in a recent book “ Summit ,” by F. Entrepreneur of the Year” finalist. One metric now commonly used is called the Net Promoter® Score (NPS). This works by asking your customers for feedback, and dividing them into three categories: Promoters. Passive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2014

I like the insights outlined in the new book “ Summit ,” by F. Entrepreneur of the Year” finalist. One new metric now commonly used is called the Net Promoter® Score (NPS). This works by asking your customers for feedback, and dividing them into three categories: Promoters. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2012

If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Within each of the platform categories defined above, there is a right one and a wrong one for your audience. Return-On-Investment metrics are not new, but the tools are different.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2017

If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Within each of the platform categories defined above, there is a right one and a wrong one for your audience. Return-On-Investment metrics are not new, but the tools are different.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Most of the guidance you see for entrepreneurs is aimed at those who are selling a product (Apple, Tesla, Xiaomi), or selling a service (Uber, Airbnb, Snapchat). The “product” value is difficult to quantify, the costs are nebulous, and entrepreneurs have to clone themselves to scale the business. Don’t forget seminars and events.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2017

I like the insights outlined in a more recent book “ Summit ,” by F. Entrepreneur of the Year” finalist. One metric now commonly used is called the Net Promoter® Score (NPS). This works by asking your customers for feedback, and dividing them into three categories: Promoters. Passive.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

” I mention journalists here because they perpetuate the myth that focusing on profits is ALWAYS the right answer and then I hear many entrepreneurs (and certainly many “normals”) repeating the same mantra. I have had this discussion with many a first-time entrepreneur. If you don’t, somebody else WILL!”

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

In our industry we applaud the efforts for entrepreneurs to have tried and we know that today’s failure can bring the experience for tomorrow’s success. How much money will airlines companies, hotel companies or event companies pay me as a referral or for booking? How much ad revenue does TripAdvisor make?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Personally, I've been an entrepreneur for 15 years, running companies with P and L responsibility for divisions, and watched with frustration as the Internet has grown up around us. In the consumer space, this has been solved very well, category after category. What's the idea behind Zubican?

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2013

ML: Porter is a really simple consumer app, a one-stop shop for booking your recurring in-home services. Today, we support four categories: house cleaning, dry cleaning – pickup and delivery, wash and fold – pickup and delivery, and dog walking. Because it’s not easy, you have to be a little bit crazy to be an entrepreneur.

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