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10 Steps To Second Stage Success For Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships. Managing business growth is more than metrics. Optimize the total customer experience.

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5 Steps To An Innovative And Winning New Venture Plan

Startup Professionals Musings

Any startup coach or business advisor will tell you that, on your way to being a great chef, you don't start your journey by inventing the ultimate entre. First you work in the kitchen for a while, learning some tools of the trade, experiment with a few recipes, and test on willing clients. In all cases, don’t skip the basic training.

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7 Keys To Sustainably Enriching Your Customers’ Lives

Startup Professionals Musings

Too many businesses I know still see customer service as a burden, rather than an opportunity to gain loyalty and advocacy. Your goal must be to make every aspect of a customer interaction a joy to both you and them, starting from the shopping experience, to the sales close, to delivery and service.

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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. Defective products and services. In the startup world, this is often seen as a lack of focus.

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5 Basic Ingredients For A Startup Recipe For Success

Startup Professionals Musings

Any startup coach or business advisor will tell you that, on your way to being a great chef, you don't start your journey by inventing the ultimate entre. First you work in the kitchen for a while, learning some tools of the trade, experiment with a few recipes, and test on willing clients. In all cases, don’t skip the basic training.

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10 Keys To Surviving From A Startup To An Enterprise

Startup Professionals Musings

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships. Managing business growth is more than metrics. Optimize the total customer experience.

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5 Lessons For New Venture Founders From Great Chefs

Startup Professionals Musings

Any startup coach or business advisor will tell you that, on your way to being a great chef, you don't start your journey by inventing the ultimate entre. First you work in the kitchen for a while, learning some tools of the trade, experiment with a few recipes, and test on willing clients. In all cases, don’t skip the basic training.

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