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. Even with all my years of experience mentoring in business, I can’t predict how you will prepare for and react to pressure situations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Here are some key strategies that I recommend to every worker today: Develop and highlight your competitive differentiation. Use blogging, outside publication, and speaking or mentoring opportunities to establish credibility and stand out above peers. Market yourself both inside and outside your current job.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2015

By demand, entrepreneurs are crisis managers, and can be busy reacting 24 hours a day to urgent short-term issues. Apply the same high bar to product quality, employee satisfaction, social responsibilities and customer service. Don’t let day-to-day demands take the reins and drag you off course.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2019

You will then experience satisfaction, instead of increased pressure. Set aside time to seek out experts in your field for ideas, as well as mentoring and coaching. This space must be associated only with rest and recovery, to offset the stress and demands of the office. Save 30 percent of your energy for outside activities.

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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. Startups can use social responsibility as a competitive advantage. That’s a real competitive edge that you can use in your marketing and positioning. Socially responsible products typically sell at a premium price.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2017

You will then experience satisfaction, instead of increased pressure. Set aside time to seek out experts in your field for ideas, as well as mentoring and coaching. This space must be associated only with rest and recovery, to offset the stress and demands of the office. Save 30 percent of your energy for outside activities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2021

Ongoing momentum requires a move to mainstream, or even late adopters, who demand simplicity in your base function. Utilize outside expertise and mentoring. No matter how much energy, experience, and passion you have, there is always more you can learn from an Advisory Board of external experts or a mentor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2022

As with most investors and advisors, I always look first at some key personal characteristics and leadership strategies that I find often make you a more likely survivor and winner in the highly competitive world of businesses, both new and mature. I believe in the old axiom, “ no risk means no reward.”

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