Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2023

As a business owner, I myself had to learn to depend on skilled partners, rather than jump in and try to solve every business challenge myself, from fund raising to social media. Use your support resources and access to coaching to solidify your mindset and personal values, and don’t back down prematurely.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2020

There is no standard course for this, but the answers are accessible online, if you know how to search, follow blogs, and interact with the relevant social media groups. Utilize business content curators and coaches. Potential resources available to entrepreneurs are enormous, but often under-utilized.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2022

Your role is to provide this enablement, through listening to their needs, and providing personal coaching and mentoring as required. With the Internet and social media, your culture is no longer just an internal thing, but extends broadly to customers, investors, and vendors. Foster collaboration rather than competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2022

I believe these same mindsets are equally applicable to the entrepreneurs I mentor, and all of you small business leaders, so I offer you my summary of the authors’ conclusions, paraphrased here, with my own insights: Be bold in vision, strategy, and resource allocation. Tap the wisdom of elders and the Board to help the business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2019

On the marketing side of the equation, there are so many “marketing gurus” and “marketing resources” out there, the real challenge for most of us is to sort out the basic do’s and the don’ts that apply to startups. I like the guidance from marketing coach David Newman’s classic book “ Do It! Don’t dumb it down for social media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

A business entity has to be created and real resources applied. The business world doesn’t thrive with yet another social media or dating site – it’s begging for paradigm shifts in the technology or business model. As you gather your team, recognize that they will need your help and coaching as well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

Finally, implementation requires a commitment of real money and other resources that can’t be written off so easily as an idea ahead of it’s time. These days, even with the pervasive Internet and social media, it still takes time and money for your marketing and customer communication efforts to have an impact.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2017

On the marketing side of the equation, there are so many “marketing gurus” and “marketing resources” out there, the real challenge for most of us is to sort out the basic do’s and the don’ts that apply to startups. I like the guidance from marketing coach David Newman’s classic book “ Do It! Don’t dumb it down for social media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2014

On the marketing side of the equation, there are so many “marketing gurus” and “marketing resources” out there, the real challenge for most of us is to sort out the basic do’s and the don’ts that apply to startups. I like the guidance from marketing coach David Newman’s recent book “ Do It! Don’t dumb it down for social media.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

We also take advantage of all the information human resources has provided us, and look, we know that someone else you know works at this company, or maybe knows someone who used to work at that company, and can vouch for them. Statistically, you are 10x more likely to get hired through a referral by an employee than a non-referral.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2013

On the marketing side of the equation, there are so many “marketing gurus” and “marketing resources” out there, the real challenge for most of us is to sort out the basic do’s and the don’ts that apply to startups. I found some help from marketing coach David Newman’s new book “ Do It! Don’t dumb it down for social media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2015

There is no standard course for this, but the answers are accessible online, if you know how to search, follow blogs, and interact with the relevant social media groups. Utilize business content curators and coaches. Potential resources available to entrepreneurs are enormous, but often under-utilized.

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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. Due to social media and the Internet, these relationships now need to extend to customers, partners, and suppliers. Diversity and inclusion bring more value than ever.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2018

There is no standard course for this, but the answers are accessible online, if you know how to search, follow blogs, and interact with the relevant social media groups. Utilize business content curators and coaches. Potential resources available to entrepreneurs are enormous, but often under-utilized.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 29, 2014

Professional athletes in the past (and present) always had the money and resources to measure and gather every bit of information to keep them at pristine shape, but all an average person had was a weight scale and a mirror to help determine if they were heading in the right or wrong direction. The MVP option goes at a rate of $5.99/month

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

A business entity has to be created and real resources applied. The business world doesn’t thrive with yet another social media or dating site – it’s begging for paradigm shifts in the technology or business model. As you gather your team, recognize that they will need your help and coaching as well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2016

There is no standard course for this, but the answers are accessible online, if you know how to search, follow blogs, and interact with the relevant social media groups. Utilize business content curators and coaches. Potential resources available to entrepreneurs are enormous, but often under-utilized.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Marketing is free or cheap because of social media. Fortunately, this reality results in valuable resources being applied to a fewer number of viable opportunities. John Wooden, US basketball coach. Top talent is not the only resource you can economically acquire in a downturn. Basically, everything is free.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Helpers may be cheaper and quicker to find, but they cost you dearly in managing, coaching and error recovery. Those entrepreneurs who build a plan then put their head down and charge will find themselves with flat growth and no resources or energy to recover. Team strength trumps team size every time. No proprietary content is death.

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