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7 Keys To Keeping Your Business Agile And Competitive

Startup Professionals Musings

That means making sure you are utilizing coaching and mentoring, as well as training to keep up with changes in technology and the marketplace. Adopt some key metrics to measure your change agility. Make sure you are fostering people development to their full potential, for them and for your business.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

And then in the late 90’s money crept in, swept in to town by public markets, instant wealth and an absurd sky-rocketing of valuations based on no reasonable metrics. I was in it for the love of working with entrepreneurs on business problems and marveling at technology they had built.

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8 Startup Excesses Which Will Jeopardize The Business

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Every entrepreneur I know is short on resources, including time, money, and skills. Waste means death.

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8 Initiatives To Make Your Customers Loyal Advocates

Startup Professionals Musings

According to many observers , we can thank or blame technology for these higher expectations, providing information at the speed of light, leading everyone to expect more. Some entrepreneurs are so focused on their technology, they assume their customers think the same way. Provide coaching and mentoring as well as training.

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How Future-Proof is Your Company (and Your Career)?

Startup Professionals Musings

In my years of mentoring and advising business leaders, I find that real planning for the future always gets the short shrift. Data technology facilitates more fact-based decisions. Technology is now much more than speeding communication and automating work processes. It’s not enough to merely talk about these changes.

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8 Ways Startups Spend Resources Without Adding Value

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Every entrepreneur I know is short on resources, including time, money, and skills. Waste means death.

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8 Deadly Wastes That Every Entrepreneur Must Avoid

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Every entrepreneur I know is short on resources, including time, money, and skills. Waste means death.