Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2020

Many of the entrepreneurs like you that I have met in my role as a business advisor are really product creators versus business creators, convinced that a great product will generate a great business. In most businesses, this means selling something, and proving that your product or service has value.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 5, 2023

Thus my challenge to you is to start today in documenting specific goals , putting some metrics in place to measure progress, and start celebrating every bit of progress, no matter how small, along the way as follows: Convert dreams into specific written objectives. Use self-study and coaching as required.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2023

They often show little empathy for the negative impact this can have on capacity, resources, people, and profitability. The organization can’t keep up the pace of change, and soon loses motivation, productivity, and all sense of where they are headed. This can be disruptive, as they love to break the mold.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2018

New product process. It starts with a vision, but benefits quickly from a structured process of idea generation, evaluation, prototyping, customer feedback, and success metrics. Training and coaching. Ongoing coaching from the top is essential to maintain the attitude and spirit. People are your best innovation resource.

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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. Bottlenecks to team productivity. The result is lower productivity all around. Lack of communication.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 10, 2016

Virtual employees can be more productive. It takes trusting management, good metrics, and entrepreneurial employees. My employees will lose control of their time and resources. Let your employees manage their own time –– but provide tools and resources. ” All our remote. Really real. Send the supervisors home too.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2020

They often show little empathy for the negative impact this can have on capacity, resources, people, and profitability. The organization can’t keep up the pace of change, and soon loses motivation, productivity, and all sense of where they are headed. This can be disruptive, as they love to break the mold.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2016

New product process. It starts with a vision, but benefits quickly from a structured process of idea generation, evaluation, prototyping, customer feedback, and success metrics. Training and coaching. Ongoing coaching from the top is essential to maintain the attitude and spirit. People are your best innovation resource.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2019

In my own years of experience as a business advisor, improving the company culture is still a major challenge to company leaders, many of whom were raised in a different era, or struggle trying to balance the rising costs of perks and benefits against measurable growth in productivity and profits.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2012

New product development process. Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Training and coaching. Ongoing coaching from the top is essential to maintain the attitude and spirit. People are your best innovation resource.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2019

Real business leadership requires continuous improvement, just like your products and processes. The best leader personality for larger organizations is one of providing help and resources, rather than extracting performance. Work on being a facilitator rather than a driver. Let people make their own decisions wherever possible.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2011

New product development process. Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Training and coaching. Ongoing coaching from the top is essential to maintain the attitude and spirit. People are your best innovation resource.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

I also know what I need to do, as an investor, to support a company, whether that''s strategic support, coaching, or providing encouragement to help build a great company. That''s another reason I''m every encouraged being in this ecosystem, in particular, because there are now lots of resources tap into no matter what stage they''re at.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2015

They often show little empathy for the negative impact this can have on capacity, resources, people, and profitability. The organization can’t keep up the pace of change, and soon loses motivation, productivity, and all sense of where they are headed. This can be disruptive, as they love to break the mold.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2017

Yet if you don’t spend some resources preparing for the changes in the marketplace we already know about, there may be no tomorrow for your business. It now means shared values and true empowerment, which is the new key to employee productivity and profitability. Company culture drives decision making and process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

Most begin by doing the product development, marketing and sales alone, but struggle making the transition to hiring and coaching others, defining repeatable processes and focusing on future strategy. When you build a great solution or product, all you can think about is shipping more volume of your product to a larger audience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2016

They often show little empathy for the negative impact this can have on capacity, resources, people, and profitability. The organization can’t keep up the pace of change, and soon loses motivation, productivity, and all sense of where they are headed. This can be disruptive, as they love to break the mold.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2010

New product development process. Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Training and coaching. Ongoing coaching from the top is essential to maintain the attitude and spirit. People are your best innovation resource.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 4, 2010

Forms Augmenting the team can take various forms: Consulting – defining how to attack particular issues, possibly directly planning Coaching – advising on how to approach particular issues Manage – lead members Execute – take on specific activities Again, this is fairly fuzzy, but it comes down to having mutual expectations.

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