Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The more successes you can help them create, the more chances they will have to interpret these wins as permanent, pervasive, and personal. Measure and measure again, and be quick to course correct. Don’t confuse engagement or satisfaction surveys with culture surveys. Transform team member mindsets, behavior, and results.

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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. Most freelancers are already experts and confident from previous assignments, and that image will help your business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2023

Of course, margin and profitability are important, but must be committed to adding more value to the lives of your clients, and making the world a better place. Seek customer feedback on ways to improve value and satisfaction. Define and focus on a mission to add value. Make customer experience your key priority.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2022

Of course, such actions are equally applicable to businesses at any stage. These events are also opportunities to get a better handle on customer requirements, as well as measure your customer satisfaction and market trends. At least, these professional networking events allow you to get out of the office and meet people who can help.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 1, 2021

Of course, any highly emotional and unmanaged conflict can certainly lead to chaos and a dysfunctional organization. For example, in a conflict over the right branding logo , it may help to understand who and how the ultimate decision will be made, including key elements driving the decision, such as targeted customers and competition.

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Activity Organization Examples Satisfaction 145

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2021

These are the ultimate chess players in the game of business, always looking to be two or three moves ahead of the competition. Of course, discovering your entrepreneur type is only the beginning. Ultimately, most get the best help from business advisors and mentors. The Builder loves building a business from the ground up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2014

This indicates that lifestyle and satisfaction factors are usually more important than financial ones. Entrepreneurs love the continuous challenges of a startup, and the satisfaction of tackling them. Beat the competition. Competition drives innovation, and innovation drives competition. High level of excitement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2014

So before you decide to move your manufacturing, software development, or call center out of town, make sure you understand the following considerations: Dont give someone else control of your competitive advantage. Saving cost wont help you if you cant make the daily innovations required to stay competitive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2012

But very quickly, it is becoming obvious to startups that the value and satisfaction exceeds the costs. Of course, investors still require a profitable business model, and the potential for high returns. Startups can use social responsibility as a competitive advantage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2016

So before you decide to move your manufacturing, software development, or call center out of town, make sure you understand the following considerations: Don’t give someone else control of your competitive advantage. Saving cost won’t help you if you can’t make the daily innovations required to stay competitive.

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Outsource Development Outsource Software Review Technical Review 53

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2016

It helps to document a total business plan rather than rely on your total recollection of all essential elements. Of course, an even more important driver of passion than success is happiness and satisfaction with the lifestyle. Buffer your resource estimates by at least 20 percent.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

The more successes you can help them create, the more chances they will have to interpret these wins as permanent, pervasive, and personal. Measure and measure again, and be quick to course correct. Don’t confuse engagement or satisfaction surveys with culture surveys. Transform team member mindsets, behavior, and results.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Without taking a dime of outside capital, the company has achieved impressive success in a competitive, SaaS market segment, landing companies such as Nike, Intuit, NASA, AutoDesk and PBS. Some of the products I’ve helped validate and launch include GoToMyPC, GoToMeeting and AppFolio. Of course there are risks. Semick: They are.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2010

Of course the work must be done well, but your way or the highway is not the right way. It will inspire loyalty, provide real satisfaction for work done, and become the basis for mentoring and performance reviews. This requires hiring people with the right skills, not the least expensive or friends and family. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2023

They are rightly thinking about a strategy to be better prepared for future challenges , recognizing that more are coming in this age of accelerating change and global competition. It leads to better team member retention and will ultimately give you a competitive advantage, more productivity, and fewer customer crises. Prepare now.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2014

We feel pressure to hit milestones for a variety of reasons: Investor presentations, conference demos, customer sales meetings, competitive pressures, a need to drive revenue, business development commitments – whatever. CEOs are time-driven creatures. This happens on 100% of projects. This happens on 100% of projects.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2010

Due in large part to the current economy and an ultra-competitive job market, a Gen-Y entrepreneurial tsunami is already upon us. And today, more than 2,000 colleges and universities offer entrepreneurship courses – up from the just 70 schools that Boomers and Gen-X had to choose from in 1970. Satisfaction vs. Stress.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Instead, having your own business going shows initiative, leadership, wider experience, and makes you more competitive for any role available. Start networking for potential partners or people who can help. Doing good, like helping society and planet sustainability, is a key to maximizing satisfaction, as well as profit.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 20, 2013

And of course it happened while I was on the road and unavailable. They gain satisfaction and status from knowing “stuff” and one-upping other men in sharing and debating facts. Men are generally chest beaters and competitive. I was home before the end of the week but it wasn’t there like I should have been.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

These are the ultimate chess players in the game of business, always looking to be two or three moves ahead of the competition. Of course, discovering your entrepreneur type is only the beginning. Ultimately, most get the best help from business advisors and mentors. The Builder loves building a business from the ground up.

Entrepreneur 96

Entrepreneur Mentor Framework Web 96