Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

You need to be visible in marketing efforts, viral videos, and interactions with key customer segments. In the early days of the IBM PC, I had the opportunity to know and work with Bill Gates at Microsoft. That means public recognition of individual achievements, providing feedback, and coaching and mentoring along the way.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2018

Help your employees build their individual strengths with customized coaching and special assignments. This may seem counter-intuitive to many managers who fear losing their best employees, since managers never seem to have time to focus on recruiting and mentoring new talent. Actively seek new opportunities for good employees.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

Indiegogo is a platform for ground breaking technology and where you can find interesting products that haven’t hit the mainstream market. They also align with companies such as Amazon web services, IBM, and many others. Indiegogo has brought more than 800,000 ideas to fruition since 2008. iFundWomen (New York, NY).

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Everyone in the outside world is talking about how great you are but internally you know that your sales aren’t ramping, your product isn’t shipping on time, you have doubts about the quality of your code, you’re not convinced you’re doing a good job on marketing – whatever. Your solution? My advice: don’t.

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