InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

As Guy Kawasaki pointed out in our recent conversation , “…it is cheaper than ever to start a company. If there was ever a time to start a company, this is it.”. Fortunately, this reality results in valuable resources being applied to a fewer number of viable opportunities. People are free or cheap because of the recession.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2023

These haven’t changed much over the years, but still seem to be often overlooked by business professionals and leaders in their haste to keep up with peers, competitors, and customers in today’s volatile environment. The reality is that starting a business, as well is working an existing business, has always required perseverance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2022

Instead of sizing up new opportunities and actively courting every new customer, you start worrying about cutting costs, repeatable processes , and overtaking known competitors. As a consultant, I hate to see you lose that startup focus on innovation, change, and customers. Limit resources to be applied to optimizing processes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2020

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. People are your best innovation resource.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2022

You can have the best technology, but if customers don’t know you exist, or they don’t know how your technology solves a real problem for them, your startup will fail. How many customers will have any idea what this means to them? I like the guidance from marketing coach David Newman’s classic book “ Do It!

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2023

In this context, I was impressed with the insights provided in a new book, “ Stay Sane In An Insane World ,” by peak performance coach Greg Harden. Listen to your team, mentors, and customers to recognize real successes and failures, and surround yourself with people who can fill in the gaps. We all have strengths and weaknesses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2022

The payback in team engagement, as well as customer revenue and loyalty, can be large. It’s important to start at the level of capabilities to translate strategies into on-the-ground execution. This may require hiring new people, expanding skillsets, and providing coaching to get the high degree of creativity often required.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 30, 2021

You must start this process by sharing your own values and priorities, and explaining how you see the work values relate to the bigger picture of customer satisfaction and a better future for all. Enhance intrinsic motivation through coaching. Embrace negative emotions as a prelude to positives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2023

Hopefully, between the two of us, more of you with big business dreams will follow the leads and generate more successful business results: Start by getting your hands dirty. A business entity has to be created and real resources applied. As you gather your team, recognize that they will need your help and coaching as well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2020

If you start with a distorted or biased view of what your company needs, no execution is likely to achieve the results that win. Also, if you are not totally committed in spirit, as well as resources, to a strategic change, it probably won’t happen. Doing what it takes to win involves risk and sacrifice.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2022

I believe you must start by being a role model for strong personal values and purpose, as well as empathy for others, sustainable energy, and self-awareness. Be sure to encompass all your constituents, especially including customers. Commit to delivering a positive customer experience.

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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. Starting many initiatives, and hoping that one will stick, is not a formula for success. Recognize limited resources. Able to maintain customer trust and team confidence.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2022

The challenge for each of you is to get it handled quickly and effectively, without losing the trust of constituents , as well as customers. Provide tools and resources as required. The challenge for many bosses is to recognize when their team should be coaching them. Map out some dedicated time for every serious issue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

in Physics who talks passionately about starting a business producing nuclear powered batteries. In addition, creating a business requires leading and interacting with other people, including partners, investors, and customers. You must also learn from your customers. For example, I have a friend with a Ph.D.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

He went on to start many successful companies, including General Electric. Empowerment starts by developing a small set of specific achievable goals for the period ahead and then pushing yourself to achieve and celebrate completed results. The business world today is very competitive, and customers are more and more demanding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2022

The classic book, “ Hunting in a Farmer's World: Celebrating the Mind of an Entrepreneur ,” by serial entrepreneur and business coach John F. In business, entrepreneurs hunt for new innovative solutions to problems, new ways of beating competitors, new markets, and new customers. They build businesses as their lifestyle, not as a job.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2021

Perhaps you need to do more to be a role model for accountability , and provide more coaching on exactly what it means. I often think of the scope of this example in my role as mentor to a struggling entrepreneur who is quick to blame his problems on employee mistakes, or even changing customer expectations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2023

I found some good guidance with practical specifics to accomplish this new type of leadership in a recent book, “ Your Resource is Human ,” by Melissa Romo. Start with ‘How are you?’ Provide coaching and facilitate mentorship from others in the company for growth. and leave time for the answer. and leave time for the answer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Hopefully, between the two of us, more of you with big business dreams will follow the leads and generate more successful business results: Start by getting your hands dirty. A business entity has to be created and real resources applied. As you gather your team, recognize that they will need your help and coaching as well.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 16, 2010

AccessEN will host an interactive discussion on the topic of values-based balance led by Kimberly Roush, founder and CEO of All-Star Coaching, at its monthly forum. who will address the possible challenges of attracting the right talent and customers faced by a start-up company constrained by limited resources.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2014

Moving from a company that had less resources (and presumably by the time their raising depleted resources) to a company with newfound resources can be telling. I have seen many companies raise their first $3 million and still act like a company that has no resources at all. You’re the coach, mentor, cheerleader.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2019

You can have the best technology, but if customers don’t know you exist, or they don’t know how your technology solves a real problem for them, your startup will fail. How many customers will have any idea what this means to them? I like the guidance from marketing coach David Newman’s classic book “ Do It!

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2010

I know it might sound a bit esoteric so let me explain: I started my career as a programmer. I started by doing billing systems. I next moved into system design where I designed computer systems to deal with large industrial natural gas customers and telecommunication companies. How can I START with the answers?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2014

Every entrepreneur I know is short on resources, including time, money, and skills. The last thing they can afford is to waste any of these, but in my mentoring and coaching activities, I see it happening all too often. Productive processes start with a plan, and end with metrics that measure value delivered.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2018

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. People are your best innovation resource.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2022

I’m sure you will agree that not all business leaders are created equal, starting from the CEO on down. Leaders with this “be bold” mindset are willing and able to take radically unique direction-setting actions in the face of today’s pace of change and customer demands. Tap the wisdom of elders and the Board to help the business.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

We're a disruptor, the third wave in human resources technology. You can find a mentor, a coach, a project, or experience, to help you prepare for the role you are looking for. How did you start the company? We were originally operating as a coaching company, and we built out this assessment technology for our own clients.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

Email readers, continue here…] Bootstrapping: This term describes your ability to start a business with little investment and grow it using internally-generated funds. It might be useful to list some of the ways in which you can raise money for growth with and without outside investors. It’s an option, even though an expensive one.

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socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2019

I got started in investment banking, focused on helping medical companies buy technology companies, and then later in the enterprise space and in the cloud. The last thing, is understanding how open and receptive all of these CEOs were to feedback, coaching, and improvement. You can't be the best at everything.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2019

You probably think that the fact that you have started your own business validates your leadership ability. In this era of rapid change, you can’t afford to stop learning, or you will find that your competitors, your customers, and your team, may soon be following someone else. It’s not about a title, raw intelligence, or domination.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2016

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. People are your best innovation resource.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 4, 2010

That said, I think it starts with what a laundry list of different kinds of needed technology activities and what the current team can reasonably accomplish. Other labels: Consultant – Take bits and pieces, possibly coach Advisor / Advisory Board Member – Often a periodic responsibility and some ad hoc activities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2010

Women entrepreneurs are starting small businesses at approximately twice the national average for all startups. As a result, there have also been many new resources popping up specifically aimed at women. You can usually start a sole proprietorship or a partnership by registering with just one government office, for less the $100.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2017

You can have the best technology, but if customers don’t know you exist, or they don’t know how your technology solves a real problem for them, your startup will fail. How many customers will have any idea what this means to them? I like the guidance from marketing coach David Newman’s classic book “ Do It!

Tips 75

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

The classic book, “ Hunting in a Farmer's World: Celebrating the Mind of an Entrepreneur ,” by serial entrepreneur and business coach John F. In business, entrepreneurs hunt for new innovative solutions to problems, new ways of beating competitors, new markets, and new customers. They build businesses as their lifestyle, not as a job.

Entrepreneur 95

Entrepreneur News Slides Startup 95

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2014

You can have the best technology, but if customers don’t know you exist, or they don’t know how your technology solves a real problem for them, your startup will fail. How many customers will have any idea what this means to them? I like the guidance from marketing coach David Newman’s recent book “ Do It!

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Helpers may be cheaper and quicker to find, but they cost you dearly in managing, coaching and error recovery. Don’t wait for the first cash-flow crisis to start talking to investors. Those entrepreneurs who build a plan then put their head down and charge will find themselves with flat growth and no resources or energy to recover.

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