Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

They ask me for a perspective on the pros and cons of that dream, the potential for increased satisfaction , and the probability of their long-term growth and success. The key to work satisfaction in the long-term is living your core values. Firing sooner is more important than hiring quickly.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 24, 2020

Relativity Space has a new customer for its 3D-printed rockets: Established satellite maker and operator Iridium, which has picked the company for launches in 2023. To accomplish those, and other launches like them, the company is also setting up a new launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2019

Most of you aspiring entrepreneurs have no idea how dramatically your own role has to evolve as you develop a solution, start a business, and expect it to scale into a successful self-managed company. You likely have hired a few helpers, such as an assistant, a social media coordinator, and a bookkeeper. Feel free to join us.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 24, 2017

As my enterprise computer software company which produced innovative lodging systems for hotels and resorts grew quickly, we found ourselves straining to keep up with the hiring and training of good customer support representatives, a critical part of the equation then and still so today in the 24-hour environment of hotel front desk operations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The traditional model for hiring permanent employees who can grow their career with your company just doesn’t work, and can jeopardize your business before it even gets traction. You need a faster and more flexible on-demand hiring strategy, based on the current gig-economy of remote freelancers, contract personnel, and specialists.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Whether you are a business professional in a big company, or an entrepreneur with a startup, innovation is a key strategy. New businesses driven only by a passion for big profit margins, rather than customer value and a higher cause, are perennially high risk with low satisfaction for you and the team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Thus if you want to change the world with your new business, you need to follow the example of startups like Zappos , which hires according to cultural fit first. Good hiring, training, and mentoring are the best motivators. Your display of pride in the company and respect for the customer will translate directly into motivation.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

As Guy Kawasaki pointed out in our recent conversation , “…it is cheaper than ever to start a company. If there was ever a time to start a company, this is it.”. Determining the perfect moment to enter the startup market, whether by creating a company or joining an ongoing venture, is akin to timing the financial markets. “The

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 3, 2020

It turns out the virtual and augmented reality companies aren’t dead — as long as they focus on the enterprise. Specifically, making talent management, training and hiring easier for employers in certain industries. Talespin previously raised $5 million in financing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2020

Personal satisfaction also ranked close behind, with 70 percent of respondents claiming it was a key advantage to running their own business. This indicates that lifestyle and satisfaction factors are often more important than financial ones. Hiring and firing decisions are hard, and that’s just the beginning. Few paid benefits.

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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. Communicate your desire to achieve work-life balance for all team members.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Redfin employs real estate agents who are paid based on client satisfaction rather than commission, and is centered around iOS, Android apps, and a website, all geared towards clients more comfortable with technology than people. The company also offers up lower fees for both sellers and buyers. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Creating the right company culture must be a top priority of every entrepreneur and business leader. You need to paint a compelling future for your company that they can all connect with. Make sure you are hiring, training, and promoting the future leaders who possess what it takes to create the organization you want.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

One of the most stressful and unanticipated challenges that comes with starting a new business is hiring and managing employees. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

Creating the right company culture must be a top priority of every entrepreneur and business leader. You need to paint a compelling future for your company that they can all connect with. Make sure you are hiring, training, and promoting the future leaders who possess what it takes to create the organization you want.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Unfortunately, in mature companies, a larger and larger percentage of employees forget company survival and customers as the objectives, and focus only on their own personal gain. People in larger organizations move away from day-to-day contact with the end customer, and focus becomes company internal and isolated.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

All prefer more flexible hours, the chance to work from home, and the traditions of lifetime loyalty to one company no longer apply. Loyalty to a given company now has to be inspired rather than assumed. Measuring attendance-only from nine-to-five is not satisfying or productive for the company or the team. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 23, 2021

For example, I commonly see metrics to keep track of revenue per employee, overtime, and absenteeism, but I don’t often see measures of overall customer satisfaction with individual employees. Yet, as a business consultant, I often find minimal focus on improving employee engagement and assessing their customer-facing performance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. For startups, the entrepreneur and founder is almost always the face of the company. How much goodwill can you and your company command today?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

As a business consultant with experience in large companies as well as startups, I often hear about dysfunctional management hierarchies, as well as the value provided by exceptional ones. These authors provide inside details of recent management experiments, as well as historical data from both successful and failed traditional companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2022

They include people like Sir Richard Branson , born in 1950, who has founded over 400 companies, and claims to be just getting started. They want to share your satisfaction in success, maybe as a reward for their own mistakes and learning earlier in life in their own businesses. Supportive co-founder and executive positions.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The company’s round was led by Vulcan Capital with additional participation from Madrona Venture Group, Tenaya Capital and Marubeni Corp. Wrench is one of a growing number of companies that are using technology to adapt what had previously been infrastructure-heavy services closer to a more consumer-friendly, convenient business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Assuming you are lucky enough to get hired, what can you do to survive, and even stand out above the rest in this environment? Here are some tips from a classic book by Harvey Mackay, “ Use Your Head to Get Your Foot in the Door ,” which work even better in a startup than they do in a bigger company: Make yourself indispensable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

This book is focused on strategic customer support jobs in every company, but I believe the hiring rules apply equally well to every job in a startup, since customer focus has to be pervasive from the beginning in modern new companies. Highlight your good relationships. Tendency to question and qualify.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2023

To compensate, every visionary entrepreneur needs to find a partner who gets great satisfaction from results, and loves the discipline of making things happen on a day-to-day basis. Tends to hire helpers and not develop talent. This may cause a wonderful 90-day spike in performance, but in the end often sabotages their original vision.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

You have to start with hiring only people who are willing and able to make serious customer service happen. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Creating the right company culture must be a top priority of every entrepreneur and business leader. You need to paint a compelling future for your company that they can all connect with. Make sure you are hiring, training, and promoting the future leaders who possess what it takes to create the organization you want.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2020

Thus if you want to change the world with your new business, you need to follow the example of startups like Zappos , which hires according to cultural fit first. Good hiring, training, and mentoring are the best motivators. Your display of pride in the company and respect for the customer will translate directly into motivation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2020

Very few entrepreneurs can play both roles, so find a partner or hire an integrator to help. These are the timeless principles that must guide all hiring, marketing, and execution decisions. There are also many more stories of companies that pivoted too late. Build a business culture to match your core values.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2021

From his experience as a consultant with major brands, and as a Top 50 Keynote Speaker in the World, Simon outlines six key steps in moving your company to this new reality. The evidence is clear that companies that help people in need, and the environment, are paid back in revenue by the rest of us. Practice your agility.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2020

To compensate, every visionary entrepreneur needs to find a partner who gets great satisfaction from results, and loves the discipline of making things happen on a day-to-day basis. Tends to hire helpers and not develop talent. This may cause a wonderful 90-day spike in performance, but in the end often sabotages their original vision.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Bureaucracy can appear quickly in startups as well as large companies. Every organization must constantly review its hiring practices, training, and leadership to make sure the focus is on people who are motivated, open-minded, and empowered. The real problem is inflexible people. Continually watch for new opportunities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2022

This requires hiring people with the right skills, not the least expensive or friends and family. It will inspire loyalty, provide real satisfaction for work done, and become the basis for mentoring and performance reviews. Learn the traits, values, and characteristics of those who will perform well when you delegate to them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Every new entrepreneur has to initiate the right actions to be perceived as a leader in their chosen business domain by their team and by their customers, or the road to success and satisfaction will be lost along the way. Reward failures as well as successes if the result is a lesson that advances the company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2016

Business success is all about having the best team, yet the average entrepreneur has little prior experience with hiring people and building top-notch teams. Hiring requirements must be anticipated and implemented with the same precision and tracking as manufacturing volumes, sales leads, and customer service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2021

You have to start with hiring only people who are willing and able to make serious customer service happen. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2022

I see that model changing today to one of team collaboration and decision making, per companies such as Amazon, Google, and Zoom. Modern companies like Amazon credit much of their growth and success to rewarding of change innovations, including failures. You will find improved morale and satisfaction all around as well.

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