Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2021

If there are financial anomalies, or someone on the team doesn’t know the current strategy, or is unhappy with you or the company, the investment will be jeopardized. Call a company meeting to communicate what is happening, and why. All need to know who will be there and what you expect. Personnel situation is stable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

As an experienced business professional and mentor, I find that most successful peers will admit that they love what they do. I always thought that I must be lucky to have found so much excitement and satisfaction from my work, so I never had any really good answers to those of you who second category who wanted to move to the first.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As a long-time mentor to new entrepreneurs and business owners, I have noticed that many no longer associate more fulfillment and satisfaction with more money, power, and success. In fact, customers today also seem more attracted to companies with a higher purpose than profit. Don’t wait for a crisis to decide what is important.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Everyone seems to espouse extrinsic motivations, such as getting rich, having power, and fulfilling parent dreams, when in fact a focus on satisfying internal interests and desires will likely lead to more success, as well as satisfaction. Satisfaction of doing something great. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.”

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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. He offers a handbook of lessons for what to expect in business, from initial ideas to funding, growth, and possible exits. Every idea has merit and risk.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2023

Customer personalities define customer experience, and sets what they love, and what they hate. Even businesses with highly specialized market segments will find it more effective and simpler to focus on who customers are as people, rather than the “what” of their demographic attributes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Communicate what is happening and why to everyone. Use this opportunity to validate their satisfaction and support for your company and your solution. A hard look will be taken at the technology maturity, the current development progress, and customer satisfaction with early product shipments.

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Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Invest 118

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 30, 2021

Based on my own long experience in business, team satisfaction, engagement, and productivity continues to be a challenge. According to consistent feedback over the past several years, even in the best companies, employees seem stuck at less than 40 percent happy and "fully engaged.” Strive to practice strength-focused leadership.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Customer personalities define customer experience, and sets what they love, and what they hate. Even businesses with highly specialized market segments will find it more effective and simpler to focus on who customers are as people, rather than the “what” of their demographic attributes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2020

According to Gallup surveys , job satisfaction for employees is at an all-time low. As a mentor to many aspiring entrepreneurs, I’m often asked what it takes to switch and get real satisfaction from this lifestyle. These are ones behind many of the modern game-changing companies, like Pinterest and Foursquare.

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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. This enables internal users to swiftly find answers to queries such as "What is our internal IP address?" or "How can I modify my direct deposit account?"

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2023

Even the hot new crowdfunding companies carefully don’t talk about their record of returns to investors. So what can you do, and what are the “red flags” to look for as you do your due diligence before pooling your money with other investors, or accepting money for your startup from investors? What are these people thinking?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2021

Unfortunately, these goals are often mutually exclusive, and focusing on the wrong ones won’t bring you that business success and satisfaction you crave. What do you see as your legacy and exit strategy? His Virgin Group now encompasses over 400 companies, and his legacy as a leader is assured.

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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. In communication to all, focus on your experience and determination to deliver results, no matter what the challenges. Everyone has ideas, but only a few can make them happen. Mission is the road map to get there.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2021

He suggests you begin with the “big three” business objectives of higher revenue, reduced costs, and improved customer satisfaction. Action is when people are drawn into a profitable and sustainable relationship with your company. Now it’s time to cycle back around to measuring what sort of business impact your efforts are having.

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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. Communicate what greatness looks like in the roles you need. Team members will never create your desired culture if they don’t know what you expect of them. Don’t confuse engagement or satisfaction surveys with culture surveys.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Young entrepreneurs and startups, in particular, often remain naively unfocused, despite their passion, of what it takes to provide the high-quality service expected. Make sure you know and communicate well exactly what you mean by high-quality service. Yet the average perception of customer experience has not improved.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2022

Jan Yager, in her classic book “ Work Less, Do More ,” has outlined eight key steps to effective delegation which I endorse: Choose what tasks you are willing to delegate. Jan Yager, in her classic book “ Work Less, Do More ,” has outlined eight key steps to effective delegation which I endorse: Choose what tasks you are willing to delegate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2022

A key influencer of satisfaction and motivation, top-ranked by employees, is positive progress and the completion of meaningful work. Negative leader behaviors affect work satisfaction for everyone. Managing and motivating a team in a startup is more than just using the right interpersonal skills. But work is personal.

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2020

Even the hot new crowdfunding companies carefully don’t talk about their record of returns to investors. So what can you do, and what are the “red flags” to look for as you do your due diligence before pooling your money with other investors, or accepting money for your startup from investors? What are these people thinking?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 9, 2021

You know what needs to be done, and not afraid to make the decisions. You get great satisfaction from overcoming all obstacles, and you have no problem with living or dying by your own decisions. Many of the great entrepreneurs of the past started their companies near business recessions and disruptions. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In my experience as an employee, up to an executive, in large companies as well as small, I’ve found that people who are consistently negative and complain are a big constraint on productivity, as well as the most difficult management problem that most business leaders face. Administer regular morale and satisfaction surveys.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2022

These companies, and many others, are finding that strong leadership and personally-tuned benefits are the key to long-term satisfaction and motivation, certainly more effective than high salaries and financial incentives alone. Practice every day what you preach. Good hiring, training, and mentoring are the best motivators.

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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. This requires that you first know who you are and what you stand for and have a vision for change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2022

Most entrepreneurs who start a company alone soon come to the conclusion that two heads are better than one – someone to share the workload, the hard decisions, costs, and tasks you don’t like. In a moment of crisis, you may be tempted to take on the first person expressing interest as a co-founder. It usually doesn’t work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2022

So what about you? How do you know if you should be running your own company, or concentrating on that queue of work that someone else has built for you? Entrepreneurs find satisfaction in the trappings of success from external sources, like the media and peer organizations. My message is do what you enjoy.

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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. Understand what you can control and accept what you can’t.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2023

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. Product companies sometimes equate customer satisfaction with customer service, but it’s more than that, especially with services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2021

Communicate what is happening and why to everyone. Use this opportunity to validate their satisfaction and support for your company and your solution. A hard look will be taken at the technology maturity, the current development progress, and customer satisfaction with early product shipments.

Technical Review 151

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Invest 151

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2022

He assures us that these apply to an external crisis that you have no control over, or an internal screwup, or just the kinds of growing pains that hit every company: Keep your focus on how to fix the problem. Your people need to know who to follow, what to do, and how to do it. Get advice before jumping to conclusions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

The development stage normally begins with designing and prototyping a product or service, and creating the company legal entity. While legally the entrepreneur has created a business entity, there is nothing of value yet to own since the company has no solution to offer, no customers, and no revenue. Funding and rollout stage.

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Entrepreneur Startup Ideas Satisfaction 108

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2020

More than ever before, people want to buy from, work for, and invest in companies that matter. Your company and team members have to be seen as going above and beyond to solve the problems of internal and external customers. Assemble the best team to assimilate and design what is needed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2020

I hope you are all able to take some time off this holiday period, to contemplate what you do, and why you do it. Personal satisfaction also ranked close behind, with 70 percent of respondents claiming it was a key advantage to running their own business. If you are here in the U.S., Choosing entrepreneurship is no exception.

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2020

No matter what people may proclaim, everyone in business is looking to achieve the highest possible level of satisfaction and financial success in their career. Entrepreneurial thinking in a corporate environment brings many positive career opportunities to the table, and many advantages to your company.

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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. Practice is better than training on what saying ‘yes’ looks like. Ask key team members to step outside the company and record their experience as a customer looking in. Marty Zwilling

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