Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2015

It starts with a vision, but benefits quickly from a structured process of idea generation, evaluation, prototyping, customer feedback, and success metrics. Innovative technologies have no value until they are turned into solutions to real customer problems. Training and coaching. Set milestones and meet them. Ownership.

Entrepreneur 101

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2020

You probably realize that the leading edge is very near the bleeding edge, where only early adopter customers dare to tread. On the other hand, if you wait for competitors to get there first, you may be left in the dust with no customers. Otherwise, look for advances from distributors, vendors or even future customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Some people even believe that entrepreneurs must be born with the right genes, and no element of education is relevant. In my view, the most effective entrepreneurs are those with a background of an array of real-life experiences, both positive and negative, as well as good academic and coaching activities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2022

Is it more customers, more revenue, more profit, or killing competitors? Confront differences in ability without blame, and add training, coaching, or education, and eliminate excess weight, before the storm. Balanced optimism: Find and focus on the winning scenario. The first step is to define “winning.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2021

Once you have learned, your top- priority task must be to educate others around you. Start with your own story, the mission of your business, and how to make everyone in your domain, including customers, into advocates and teachers. Lift: propagate your strength by teaching others. Automate: do it once to never do it again.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Some people even believe that entrepreneurs must be born with the right genes, and no element of education is relevant. In my view, the most effective entrepreneurs are those with a background of an array of real-life experiences, both positive and negative, as well as good academic and coaching activities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships. Leaders are needed to coach each salesperson, keep the team on message, and spur new growth and goals. Optimize the total customer experience. Managing business growth is more than metrics. Neither is effective without the other.

Startup 97

Startup Sales Metrics Guide 97

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

Some people even believe that entrepreneurs must be born with the right genes, and no element of education is relevant. In my view, the most effective entrepreneurs are those with a background of an array of real-life experiences, both positive and negative, as well as good academic and coaching activities.

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Writing Coach Incubator Entrepreneur 111

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

You can find a mentor, a coach, a project, or experience, to help you prepare for the role you are looking for. We were originally operating as a coaching company, and we built out this assessment technology for our own clients. How is it your first customer was in Australia? It's very much matching pieces into a puzzle.

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Help Southern California Startup Technical Review 100

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2010

In billing we literally started thinking about all of the types of bills that would be generated for customers: full payment, partial payment, split payment, senior discount, student discount, level pay plan, etc. He coached me that I had to start with the answers. I started by doing billing systems. How can I START with the answers?

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socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2017

Diamond Bar-based LifeRay (www.liferay.com) is a company that not too many people have heard of, but which is used to run the websites for such well known organizations like Toyota, T-Mobile, Coach, Fujitsu, Allianz, and Sesame Street. We focus on digital transformation and customer experience. What is LifeRay?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2014

Also dont confuse a business advisor with a business coach. An advisors aim is to teach you what to do and how, in specific situations, unlike a coach who helps you develop your generic skills for deciding what to do and how. The advisor helps the entrepreneur fill an experience gap, and a coach helps fill a skill gap.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2018

In the entrepreneur world, your perception is equally critical, except the “managers” in this world are your investors, customers, vendors, business partners, and team members. Use the idea to kick-start your relationships with co-founders, investors, customers and business partners. Remember the rule of one.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Here are key maxims that I believe indicate a growth mindset rather than a fixed mindset: A need to learn from customers, rather than educate them. Successful entrepreneurs start with a customer problem, and develop a solution, rather than the other way around. Partnering with customers, rather than acting as a supplier.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

By spending more time educating your board on your business you get more valuable advice from them. Partly out of the fact that in 1 week I depart for England to speak at LeWeb, attend our DataSift board meeting and generally make myself available to the DataSift team to meet their customers, partners and employees. Assigns tasks.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The program is based on a highly developed process created by entrepreneurial thought-leader and Ivy League educator Steve Blank , author of the book The Four Steps to the Epiphany. Customer Development. What you will get at NEXT: You will be taught the what, how, and why of the customer development process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2013

In the entrepreneur world, your perception is equally critical, except the “managers” in this world are your investors, customers, vendors, business partners, and team members. Use the idea to kick-start your relationships with co-founders, investors, customers and business partners. Remember the rule of one.

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Entrepreneur Startup Ideas Social Network 109

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships. Leaders are needed to coach each salesperson, keep the team on message, and spur new growth and goals. Optimize the total customer experience. Managing business growth is more than metrics. Neither is effective without the other.

Startup 108

Startup Sales Metrics Entrepreneur 108

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

With a tiny organization, small businesses can make decisions quickly, allowing them to respond quickly to customer input and changes. As a small business owner and entrepreneur, you may relish the flexibility and the challenge of getting that first traction and customer recognition. Sharing the same space also facilitates creativity.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 14, 2020

. “We launched a telehealth product in 48 hours, we converted the majority of our visits for the next month in person online and we had really, really great feedback and customer response — both in terms of adoption but repeat visits as well. though Carmy notes it’s only “in network” (i.e.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2018

You probably realize that the leading edge is very near the bleeding edge, where only early adopter customers dare to tread. On the other hand, if you wait for competitors to get there first, you may be left in the dust with no customers. Otherwise, look for advances from distributors, vendors or even future customers.

Startup 56

Startup Entrepreneur Statistics Course 56

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2014

You probably realize that the leading edge is very near the bleeding edge, where only early adopter customers dare to tread. On the other hand, if you wait for competitors to get there first, you may be left in the dust with no customers. Otherwise, look for advances from distributors, vendors or even future customers.

Startup 110

Startup Entrepreneur Statistics Course 110

Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

The company has a majority stake in Team Liquid, a top esports team in the US and Europe with 60 pro players, coaches, and analysts competing in nine games as well as a minority stake in Super League Gaming. Brit + Co is a digital media company that inspires, educates and entertains real women with a creative spirit.

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Entertainment Press 108

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2016

In the entrepreneur world, your perception is equally critical, except the “managers” in this world are your investors, customers, vendors, business partners, and team members. Use the idea to kick-start your relationships with co-founders, investors, customers and business partners. Remember the rule of one.

Entrepreneur 58

Entrepreneur Marketing Startup Ideas 58

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships. Leaders are needed to coach each salesperson, keep the team on message, and spur new growth and goals. Optimize the total customer experience. Managing business growth is more than metrics. Neither is effective without the other.

Startup 56

Startup Sales Metrics Guide 56

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2012

Translating that into business value, a study by Wirthlin Worldwide concluded that 80% of customers still base a good portion of their buy decision on their perception of that firm’s ethics. At the base of these are moral values, but in my view most of the rest are gleaned from experience, parents, and formal education.

Entrepreneur 97

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

It may sound counterintuitive, but the greater constraint investors place on their financial resources during a downturn, the better your chances of success, given (of course) that your adVenture is able to either secure funding or generate adequate revenue from customers, as described below in reason #7 – Customer Dollars Taste Great.

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Company Companies Startup Study 257

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2017

In my role as a new business advisor, I sometimes see people who are very intelligent and well-educated, but not adept at problem solving. If you want to improve your strength in this area, or need to coach your team along these lines, I recommend the following steps: Approach every problem as a positive business opportunity.

Metrics 58

Metrics Entrepreneur Examples Coach 58

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2017

For example, if I don’t know you, and you didn’t sell your last company for $800 million, your story needs to educate me on why anyone would bet on you to succeed, and how you would reward me for success. She speaks from years of experience coaching entrepreneurs and executives on the magic of a story.

Social Media 58

Social Media Coach Invest Media 58

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships. Leaders are needed to coach each salesperson, keep the team on message, and spur new growth and goals. Optimize the total customer experience. Managing business growth is more than metrics. Neither is effective without the other.

Sales 96

Sales Metrics Startup Entrepreneur 96

Xconomy

JUNE 29, 2016

The system uses the Kinect motion tracking system to provide interactive feedback and educational information to patients during physical therapy. The system coaches patients through their rehab exercises, monitors their performance, and enables physical therapists and physicians to track a patient’s progress.

Technology 74

Technology San Diego Funding Coach 74

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2016

You probably realize that the leading edge is very near the bleeding edge, where only early adopter customers dare to tread. On the other hand, if you wait for competitors to get there first, you may be left in the dust with no customers. Otherwise, look for advances from distributors, vendors or even future customers.

Startup 58

Startup Entrepreneur Statistics Course 58

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Yes, I know it’s my job as the CEO to be the coach for people and that’s fine. This person was educated at the best US schools and had worked for a top-tier strategy consulting firm – one of the big 3. Should she take a chance and potentially ruffle feathers? But I bring up this story for a reason.

Entrepreneur 414

Entrepreneur Technical Review Slides CTO Coach 414

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Is it more customers, more revenue, more profit, or killing competitors? Confront differences in ability without blame, and add training, coaching, or education, and eliminate excess weight, before the storm. Balanced optimism: Find and focus on the winning scenario. The first step is to define “winning.”

Startup 61

Startup Coach Training Education 61

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2010

John Morris: I think it's trying to make a decent connection with customers, and trying to assess the size and viability of the market. It's really trying to make sense of who is the customer, how do we get to them, how big is the market. Where is this talent coming from? I think if we can start six companies, that would be thrilling.

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Networking Research Startup USC 215

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2011

Translating that into business value, a study by Wirthlin Worldwide concluded that 80% of customers still base a good portion of their buy decision on their perception of that firm’s ethics. At the base of these are moral values, but in my view most of the rest are gleaned from experience, parents, and formal education.

Startup 91

Startup Coach Satisfaction Custom 91

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2015

Is it more customers, more revenue, more profit, or killing competitors? Confront differences in ability without blame, and add training, coaching, or education, and eliminate excess weight, before the storm. Balanced optimism: Find and focus on the winning scenario. The first step is to define “winning.”

Tips 101

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