Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2023

New product process. Training and coaching. Ongoing coaching from the top is essential to maintain the attitude and spirit. Make sure all team members have some connection with the product – has either used it, or sold it, or assembled it. People are your best innovation resource. Failure is the best teacher.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2023

I saw the key ones outlined well in the classic book, “ Creating High Performers ,” by William Dann, a leading coach to experienced CEOs. Your standards for product quality, sales growth, and customer satisfaction must be documented and reviewed prior to results and performance reviews. Top performance is more than skills and effort.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2021

Some are great product leaders and innovative technologists, others are leaders in creating new business models , a few can assemble great teams , but only the rare exception can do all three. Create innovative change from existing resources. That means accepting coaching and seeking mentoring, as well as giving it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 30, 2021

Based on my own long experience in business, team satisfaction, engagement, and productivity continues to be a challenge. That’s a huge opportunity for productivity in your business, as well as your team well-being. That’s a huge opportunity for productivity in your business, as well as your team well-being.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

Certainly, bootstrapping is a preferred method of funding growth if it does not hold back the speed of growth or hobble the quality of product or service to the extent that better-funded competitors can overtake the business. There is a lot to say about retaining control. The post Need money?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2022

He speaks from his own many years as an entrepreneur, executive coach, and keynote speaker. Give people the resources they need to succeed. Properly giving your team the resources they need is the battle you much fight before asking them to do their part. Also, focus on finding the resources you need to be an effective leader.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2022

One of the dysfunctions I often see in my coaching and mentoring work with small businesses is team member burnout. The impact is low employee engagement , low productivity, and ultimately business failure or lack of growth.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Clovers said its product uses "conversational intelligence" to provide real-time hiring questions for interviews, offering up what it says are "unbiased" question for interviews, and providing post-interview candidate insights, and post-mortem interviewer coaching.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2020

I saw the key ones outlined well in the classic book, “ Creating High Performers ,” by William Dann, a leading coach to experienced CEOs. Your standards for product quality, sales growth, and customer satisfaction must be documented and reviewed prior to results and performance reviews. Top performance is more than skills and effort.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2020

New product process. Training and coaching. Ongoing coaching from the top is essential to maintain the attitude and spirit. Make sure all team members have some connection with the product – has either used it, or sold it, or assembled it. People are your best innovation resource. Failure is the best teacher.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2022

You may have a brilliant product strategy, but your operational teams seem to fight change, as well as each other, resulting in turf battles and confusion, leading to the internal drama and problems that occupy too much of your time. Provide resources to implement initiatives. People need to feel motivation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2017

Most business leaders today realize that smart management of scarce resources is the key to competitive success. Yet the truth is that a more scarce resource is really the time, talent, and energy of your team. Leaders who are able to optimize these find multipliers of 20 percent up to nine times the average productivity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2023

How will work productivity and quality be impacted, and what effect will it have on personal careers, job satisfaction, and work-life balance? In my experience, a great office culture will enhance every team member productivity, as well as personal satisfaction. Coaching – Practice active listening and feedback.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2022

Jeff Bezos credits much of Amazon’s long-term ability to grow and thrive to his funding of new product experiments, even when he did not agree. Limit resources to be applied to optimizing processes. The drive to create efficient and repeatable processes can absorb all your resources, and actually make it harder to accommodate change.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 2, 2017

In my book, “Extending the Runway” (Second Edition, Berkus Press 2014), I explore the thesis that there are five basic types of resources an entrepreneur must exploit in growing a successful business: time, money, process, relationships and context. Being able to adapt to the realities and changes in the fast-moving environment is essential.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2021

Engaged people are more productive than your best process. Un-motivated people are also a huge drain on all resources. You may be tempted to delegate people issues to human resources specialists, and focus your time on process issues, which are more concrete and specific.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2023

These should come as no surprise to you, since they haven’t changed in many decades, and I expect will serve you well in the current turbulent times we all face: Spend time nurturing productive work relationships. In my experience, relationships are still the key to career opportunities, new clients, and collaborative results.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2022

Yet I find, as a mentor and outside consultant, that many of you focus only on working conditions and compensation as the key factors determining team engagement , health, and productivity. Every person requires some level of positive human interaction with co-workers and others to be satisfied and productive.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women have made great inroads into the tech world in recent years, but there remains a long way to go before we reach a truly equitable state of affairs in workforce numbers, remuneration and product development. Entity’s sweet spot is a bifurcated one, Schwab said in an interview.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2022

They skimp on the design of their website, procrastinate on the rollout to make sure the product is perfect, and get so excited about technology features that they forget about creating value for customers. I like the guidance from marketing coach David Newman’s classic book “ Do It! Don’t waste your time following up.

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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 hired a head of product for a reason.

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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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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. They love the continuous hunt, for investment capital, resources, talent, and new markets. Only a few of these slide into farming, as the company grows in employees and products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2022

Provide tools and resources as required. I have found that micro-management can be especially productive if you are working with a first-time or unique situation, or working with a new team with little experience. The challenge for many bosses is to recognize when their team should be coaching them.

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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. Allocate your time and resources to customer expectations and competitor challenges. Poor work-life balance will leave you and your team working more hours but being less productive.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 2, 2014

Many startups these days are started by young, technical or product founders who are in the idealistic phase of their lives and careers. It’s why I called out the importance of “executive coaches” in this post. Given how important people management is it’s surprising more of us don’t have group coaches.

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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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Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

Certainly, bootstrapping is a preferred method of funding growth if it does not hold back the speed of growth or hobble the quality of product or service to the extent that better-funded competitors can overtake the business. There is a lot to say about retaining control. It’s an option, even though an expensive one.

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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

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The first electric bulb was actually invented by Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, who demonstrated the concept, but gave up trying to develop a practical product after only three attempts. Don’t be hesitant to use coaches, mentors, and other resources to test and improve your image by others, and your perceptions of business realities and biases.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 5, 2023

We all need help in achieving our objectives, whether it be mentoring, education, or resources. Use self-study and coaching as required. The first rule of productivity is that doing what you know and love is the key to maximizing your value and output, making it a win-win for everyone around you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2018

New product process. Training and coaching. Ongoing coaching from the top is essential to maintain the attitude and spirit. Make sure all team members have some connection with the product – has either used it, or sold it, or assembled it. People are your best innovation resource. Failure is the best teacher.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 10, 2016

Virtual employees can be more productive. My employees will lose control of their time and resources. Let your employees manage their own time –– but provide tools and resources. One more thing: supervisors need first–hand experience of working virtually in order to support, motivate and coach their teams. Really real.

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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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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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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 5, 2016

This money will be used to further grow the studio and amplify resources for [build], rhubarb studios ’ three-month immersive coaching program which takes startups from conception to series A. “We The brilliant people in these teams are key to our portfolio companies’ success,” said rhubarb studios co-founder Ryan Prust.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2016

I saw the key ones outlined well in a recent book, “ Creating High Performers ,” by William Dann, a leading coach to experienced CEOs. Your standards for product quality, sales growth, and customer satisfaction must be documented and reviewed prior to results and performance reviews. Set the standards for good performance in each role.

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