Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2014

Demand for coaching, counseling, and discipline training is high. Top team members rarely quit the company. Examples of exemplary companies practicing this model include Starbucks Coffee and the Whole Foods. Toxic relationships are emotional, often personal, disagreements which are counter-productive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2023

Here is my list of eight key strategies and tactics, gleaned from my own observations and feedback, which I believe will define you as a trusted leader, and will result in loyal teams to amplify your business initiatives into long-term success and satisfaction: Share your values and expectations to everyone. The former is acceptable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2022

It is no secret that the recent pandemic has exacerbated this problem as companies lost more and more of their employees due to illness, economic contraction, and voluntary resignations. Burnout occurs for many when your job demands are too many, the hours are too long, and the resources to handle them are too few.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

He went on to start many successful companies, including General Electric. You will learn to recognize that some friends and colleagues are always downers, and get their satisfaction from snuffing out your aspirations through negative thinking. The business world today is very competitive, and customers are more and more demanding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Michelli, with inspiring stories on how one well-known company, Mercedes-Benz, made the transition and is profiting as a result. Your competition is global, so today’s customers are demanding world-class service. Ask key team members to step outside the company and record their experience as a customer looking in.

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socalTECH

JULY 17, 2013

The blog had run a story a couple of weeks ago saying that Beachmint had returned money to its investors and ejected its founders, a story which was vehementaly denied by the company. This isn''t the first time Beachmint has clashed with PandoDaily; the two also had clashed over coverage of a restructuring of Beachmint in March.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2022

These are responding to the demands of this new world for collaboration, trust, and transparency. In fact, Conscious Capitalism companies, for example, historically have outperformed the S&P 500 index by a factor of ten. They may not have noticed the wave of “open businesses,” spawned by the Internet and social media.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Landline , the operator of a bus network in the Midwest, is one of the latest companies to raise venture capital. The company is actually based out of LA, too, but has completed its initial launch in Minnesota, where there’s greater demand for short-term bus travel. WordPress parent company Automattic secures $300M.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2022

We have all heard the examples of the great new company cultures, popularized by Google, Zappos, and Facebook, which seem to imply that company perks are the secret to success. Over 16 percent of workers are still actively disengaged , and half have left at least one job because they hated their boss.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Train them fully, give them authority, make them accountable, and tie their pay to customer satisfaction. Companies with great service routinely spend 3% to 5% of salaries training team members – experienced as well as new. Make sure you know and communicate well exactly what you mean by high-quality service. Marty Zwilling

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Michelli, with inspiring stories on how one well-known company, Mercedes-Benz, made the transition and is profiting as a result. Your competition is global, so today’s customers are demanding world-class service. Ask key team members to step outside the company and record their experience as a customer looking in.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2022

These authors have enjoyed leadership positions in big companies, as well as small, and distill their advice from interviews with dozens of business owners of all sizes around the country. Even a successful bigger business will bring additional responsibilities, new competition, and more demands on your time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2022

They are not having the impact they expected, and they are not feeling the personal satisfaction they need for next level motivation. Your team will quickly sense your insights and sincerity , leading to greater impact and satisfaction by everyone. This is a tough challenge for every coach and mentor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Demand for coaching, counseling, and discipline training is high. Top team members rarely quit the company. Examples of exemplary companies practicing this model include Starbucks Coffee and the Whole Foods. Toxic relationships are emotional, often personal, disagreements which are counter-productive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2022

The canvas is a visual chart with elements describing your value proposition, structure, finances, and customers, to help companies identify and align business activities. Investors will demand clear channel definitions. Then there is the follow-up to provide customer support and satisfaction. Customer relationships.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

In my business of mentoring new entrepreneurs and advising small company owners, I recognize that most don’t start as experienced leaders, and most don’t realize that people leadership is a primary key to their future success. Building a business is not a one-person job, and leading by edict rarely works today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2021

Train them fully, give them authority, make them accountable, and tie their pay to customer satisfaction. Companies with great service routinely spend 3% to 5% of salaries training team members – experienced as well as new. Make sure you know and communicate well exactly what you mean by high-quality service. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2022

Don’t wait for the harsh reality of the demanding business world to start thinking about these tradeoffs. Should you start a company solo or find co-founders to help you? Should the founder keep the company small, try to adapt, or step aside in favor of a seasoned business executive? The founding team size dilemma.

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Southern California Edison Blog

MAY 15, 2020

Media and content creation businesses expanding their services to meet future content needs require a network that can support growing media content demands. Looking to future needs, CDNs allow media companies to ramp up their ability to continue to push out media content without a decline in quality or accessibility. in 2018 was 228.8

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 19, 2022

People see you as great for demanding customers and team bonding. In a critical extension to this thinking, the authors and I would outline another dimension to these personality types and motivators, by defining five motivation grade levels that also impact entrepreneurial motives, actions, and satisfaction: Level A.

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

With Generative AI and LLMs, new avenues for improving operational efficiency and user satisfaction are emerging every day. In layman's terms, while conventional search mechanisms demand exact phrases or keywords to return relevant results, LLMs can understand and interpret the intent and context behind a query.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2019

For example, when John Mackey of Whole Foods made it clear to employees that his larger purpose was helping people live a healthier life, his team and his customers found a new excitement beyond groceries, resulting in growth and profitability that easily outpaced the industry, as well as awards as one of the best companies to work for.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

While this approach appears to cost more on the surface, it often actually costs you less, when you consider the hidden costs of rework, poor customer satisfaction, employee management, and training required. Customers won’t know that vendors are not employees of your company. Outsourcing can give your startup a more mature image.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

At Amazon, Jeff Bezos leads a relentless drive to invent dramatic new ways to delight customers, not waiting for customer demands or competitors to show the way. Make your company a ground-breaking invention machine. New inventions bring risk and cost, and they don’t see other companies using them until it is too late.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2019

Demand for coaching, counseling, and discipline training is high. Top team members rarely quit the company. Examples of exemplary companies practicing this model include Starbucks Coffee and the Whole Foods. Toxic relationships are emotional, often personal, disagreements which are counter-productive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2015

Companies that have focused on sustainability and social responsibility, in addition to ethical business practices, such as Patagonia and Zappos , claim more than three times the return of average companies over the last 10 years. Manage your company based on long-term priorities. You must be the model of the culture you want.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2020

People see you as great for demanding customers and team bonding. In a critical extension to this thinking, the authors and I would outline another dimension to these personality types and motivators, by defining five motivation grade levels that also impact entrepreneurial motives, actions, and satisfaction: Level A.

Entrepreneur 126

Entrepreneur Organization Customer Custom 126

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2019

The canvas is a visual chart with elements describing your value proposition, structure, finances, and customers, to help companies identify and align business activities. Investors will demand clear channel definitions. Then there is the follow-up to provide customer support and satisfaction. Customer relationships.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2019

We have all heard the examples of the great new company cultures, popularized by Google, Zappos, and Facebook, which seem to imply that company perks are the secret to success. Over 16 percent of workers are still actively disengaged , and half have left at least one job because they hated their boss.

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Customer Custom Coach Satisfaction 92

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2018

Thus without thinking, every company becomes more static. In fact, innovation needs to be an integral part of the company culture and every process from the beginning. When innovations are driven by increased customer value and satisfaction, business growth will come naturally from repeat business, new customers, and referrals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2018

As a business advisor, one of the things I see most often as a drag to productivity and growth is employees who, despite their best efforts, can’t change things that they know are hurting the company. Yet every CEO I know believes that his team is motivated and empowered to make the business better for both customers and the company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2019

Of course, nothing is totally free, and I have heard the horror stories of relatively small companies finding thirty or more employees spending most of their time scanning and using social media for promotions, or engaging high-priced consultants who never seem to be able to show any real return for all of their efforts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2019

These are responding to the demands of this new world for collaboration, trust, and transparency. In fact, Conscious Capitalism companies, for example, historically have outperformed the S&P 500 index by a factor of ten. They may not have noticed the wave of “open businesses,” spawned by the Internet and social media.

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Organization Social Media Examples Customer 52

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2019

Don’t wait for the harsh reality of the demanding business world to start thinking about these tradeoffs. Should you start a company solo or find co-founders to help you? Should the founder keep the company small, try to adapt, or step aside in favor of a seasoned business executive? The founding team size dilemma.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2013

But very quickly, it is becoming obvious to startups that the value and satisfaction exceeds the costs. I believe this option will spread quickly to other companies, states and countries. By adding to perceived value, it can attract more sophisticated and demanding customers less expensively and more quickly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Even companies with long-established and well-respected brands, such as Apple and Amazon, can’t afford to rest on their laurels. According to experts , as many as 50 percent of the existing S&P 500 companies will be pushed aside in the next 10 years, and the lifespan of successful companies is getting shorter and shorter.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 30, 2013

For instance, a friend of mine found it difficult, as a young engineer, to establish a relationship with his company''s CTO. Good mentors are in demand and they will quickly lose patience if you do not adequately appreciate their time and attention. The CTO''s calendar was booked solid, except for lunch, which he spent running.

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