Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2013

Most leaders agree that poor customer service is a business killer today, in terms of lost customers, reduced profits, and low morale. Yet the average perception of customer experience continues to decline. You have to start with hiring only people who are willing and able to make serious customer service happen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Research has found that people with low resilience are four times more likely to experience burnout, or even premature death. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The result is fewer and fewer new ideas are volunteered by prospective leaders and key team members, and the business suffers from poor customer satisfaction or loss of market share. Find other situations that led to success, or explain why the environment, competition, or opportunity has changed to reduce the risk of failure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2022

These entrepreneurs find it hard to respect customers or team members, and their ventures usually fail. As a team member, low self-esteem leads to low confidence, poor productivity, and no job satisfaction. Current research is conclusive that self-esteem is linked to our sense of competence in the areas that are important to us.

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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. These authors bring a broad range of experience and practice in business leadership, as executives, consultants in the real world, and academic researchers.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

As organizations we have become more open and I believe this is great for businesses and their customers. We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Today’s customers are much more proactive in going online for the latest information, rather than simply reacting to the “push” messages that businesses traditionally use to drive commerce. Discipline is required to continually track results, return on investment, and customer satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

These entrepreneurs find it hard to respect customers or team members, and their ventures usually fail. As a team member, low self-esteem leads to low confidence, poor productivity, and no job satisfaction. Current research is conclusive that self-esteem is linked to our sense of competence in the areas that are important to us.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2022

The research from Wasserman and others outlines the following top ten dilemmas that every founder needs to deal with sooner or later in their career as an entrepreneur: The make money or serve humanity dilemma. You can’t have it all, just like your startup can’t be all things to all customers. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

You must recognize that change is the new norm in business, so problems represent opportunities to learn something new, improve your productivity and competitiveness of the business. Since business is generally not rocket science, relationships with peers, partners, and customers are often more important than skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Most entrepreneurs see their new venture as a fun adventure, until the pressures of a cash flow crisis, or a manufacturing quality problem, or a major customer satisfaction problem hits. Here are the top approaches I recommend, and the entrepreneur mindsets that I see in survivors: Evaluate new competitive threats as new opportunities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2015

These entrepreneurs find it hard to respect customers or team members, and their ventures usually fail. As a team member, low self-esteem leads to low confidence, poor productivity, and no job satisfaction. Current research is conclusive that self-esteem is linked to our sense of competence in the areas that are important to us.

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Entrepreneur Startup Satisfaction Competition 102

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2016

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. He lays out seven thinking strategies for both entrepreneurs and employees that will make them business winners: Focus on the customers at all times.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

These entrepreneurs find it hard to respect customers or team members, and their ventures usually fail. As a team member, low self-esteem leads to low confidence, poor productivity, and no job satisfaction. Current research is conclusive that self-esteem is linked to our sense of competence in the areas that are important to us.

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Startup Satisfaction Entrepreneur Competition 57

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

Today’s customers are much more proactive in going online for the latest information, rather than simply reacting to the “push” messages that businesses traditionally use to drive commerce. Discipline is required to continually track results, return on investment, and customer satisfaction.

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Technical Review Organization Entrepreneur Social Media 68

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2015

Today’s customers are much more proactive in going online for the latest information, rather than simply reacting to the “push” messages that businesses traditionally use to drive commerce. Discipline is required to continually track results, return on investment, and customer satisfaction.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Organization Entrepreneur Social Media 100

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2019

The research from Wasserman and others outlines the following top ten dilemmas that every founder needs to deal with sooner or later in their career as an entrepreneur: The make money or serve humanity dilemma. You can’t have it all, just like your startup can’t be all things to all customers. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2014

These entrepreneurs find it hard to respect customers or team members, and their ventures usually fail. As an employee, low self-esteem leads to low confidence, poor productivity, and no job satisfaction. Current research is conclusive that self-esteem is linked to our sense of competence in the areas that are important to us.

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Startup Satisfaction Entrepreneur Competition 91

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Some peers are always researching the big picture and latest details, and can keep you in the loop on what’s happening in the organization and why. Personal friendships will improve communications and trust, and will definitely improve your personal satisfaction and life balance, between work and play.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2014

Today’s customers are much more proactive in going online for the latest information, rather than simply reacting to the “push” messages that businesses traditionally use to drive commerce. Discipline is required to continually track results, return on investment, and customer satisfaction.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Organization Social Media 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2016

It comes with the territory, and includes cash-flow challenges, fickle customers, belligerent investors and unpredictable economic downturns. The best entrepreneurs tackle these one at a time without losing their stride or their passion and many secretly get their highest satisfaction from overcoming an impossible problem.

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Satisfaction Activity Entrepreneur Competition 59

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2016

These days, there are over 150 credible market-research companies online sizing opportunities, including Nielsen and Gartner. Interact with real customers to validate passion in their feedback. Use social media and live customers to eliminate any reality distortion in your internal perception of value.

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Startup Ideas Entrepreneur Statistics 62

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2014

The research from Wasserman and others outlines the following top ten dilemmas that every Founder needs to deal with sooner or later in their career as an entrepreneur: The make money or serve humanity dilemma. You can’t have it all, just like your startup can’t be all things to all customers. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2017

The research from Wasserman and others outlines the following top ten dilemmas that every founder needs to deal with sooner or later in their career as an entrepreneur: The make money or serve humanity dilemma. You can’t have it all, just like your startup can’t be all things to all customers. Marty Zwilling.

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Entrepreneur USC Statistics Equity 57

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2010

If one of your core values is exceeding your customer expectations for quality and service, and your potential partner ascribes to the low cost, high profit mantra, a successful partnership is highly unlikely over the long-term. In many cases, experts with academic or research credentials are not good partners for a business venture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2013

The research from Wasserman and others outlines the following top ten dilemmas that every Founder needs to deal with sooner or later in their career as an entrepreneur: The make money or serve humanity dilemma. You can’t have it all, just like your startup can’t be all things to all customers. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Entrepreneur Statistics Equity 98

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

In doing some research on this one, I found out that everyone has a favorite list of good reasons for starting a business, so mine really reflects more my personal prioritization of the possibilities than any comprehensive list: You really want to run a business. It means you'll be facing a lot less competition. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2010

Almost every entrepreneur needs to improve their skills in this area, so I did some research in the basic principles. It will inspire loyalty, provide real satisfaction for work done, and become the basis for mentoring and performance reviews. The challenge is delegating the right things, and not delegating the wrong things.

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Entrepreneur Startup SEO Social Media 52

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2014

There’s a healthy balance between allowing a design team to dream up functional requirements, talk with customers, analyze competitors and for technical projects – research the latest cool-kid tools to play with. Design with no constraints becomes a research project. CEOs are time-driven creatures.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

After reviewing her day-by-day recommendations to improve productivity in a single week, I have extrapolated her guidance to ten productivity tips specifically for entrepreneurs to regain that competitive edge: Focus on managing yourself rather than managing others. Savor the satisfaction of success, and watch the stress melt away.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

How to Enchant Your Customer - How to Change the World , November 23, 2010 I love to do business with small businesses—in-store, online, for myself, for others, for pleasure, for work—it doesn’t matter to me. Competing To Win Deals - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 7, 2010 The venture capital business is highly competitive.

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