Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The first electric bulb was actually invented by Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, who demonstrated the concept, but gave up trying to develop a practical product after only three attempts. A first step is empowering yourself to achieve success and feel satisfaction from doing your job. Thomas Edison is a classic example.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2021

Train them fully, give them authority, make them accountable, and tie their pay to customer satisfaction. It must be understandable, written down, and verifiable, with regular measurements and metrics to make it real, benchmarked against the competition. Know your customers intimately. Make your service deliver process “happy.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2022

As you look forward from where you are today, I recommend that each of you consider the following points that the authors and I all agree are key to your satisfaction, as well as your success in business: You love solution creation more than managing business. No one else can do the solution delivery like you can.

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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. Embrace the real you as your competitive advantage. Your team will quickly sense your insights and sincerity , leading to greater impact and satisfaction by everyone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2022

Don’t wait for the harsh reality of the demanding business world to start thinking about these tradeoffs. No one wants to put in money until you have a product, and you need money to build the product. Startups are usually founded by product or service experts who don’t enjoy the various growth phases. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2022

You will then experience satisfaction, instead of increased pressure. The most productive and respected business people know their limits and assertively protect them. Time spent building and maintaining key work relationships can dramatically improve your productivity, reduce stress, and raise your melting point.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 19, 2022

People see you as great for demanding customers and team bonding. In a critical extension to this thinking, the authors and I would outline another dimension to these personality types and motivators, by defining five motivation grade levels that also impact entrepreneurial motives, actions, and satisfaction: Level A.

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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. A solution I often recommend, as least in early growth, is the use of outsourcing for critical tasks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2020

People see you as great for demanding customers and team bonding. In a critical extension to this thinking, the authors and I would outline another dimension to these personality types and motivators, by defining five motivation grade levels that also impact entrepreneurial motives, actions, and satisfaction: Level A.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

In today’s world of growing competition and customer evolution , holding your own, and growing to the next level is a constant challenge that can never be ignored. Treat employees like your most demanding customers. A great business purpose is better than a great product. The reality could not be further from the truth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2013

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

AUGUST 10, 2019

Don’t wait for the harsh reality of the demanding business world to start thinking about these tradeoffs. No one wants to put in money until you have a product, and you need money to build the product. Startups are usually founded by product or service experts who don’t enjoy the various growth phases. Marty Zwilling.

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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

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

MAY 31, 2019

You will then experience satisfaction, instead of increased pressure. The most productive and respected business people know their limits and assertively protect them. Time spent building and maintaining key work relationships can dramatically improve your productivity, reduce stress, and raise your melting point.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Too many entrepreneurs develop a new product without regard to market demand, then build an entire strategy based on creating a need, rather than acting on an existing market need. Temper your product with actual market and customer feedback. Analyze how competition will react. These don’t get funded. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Like startup investors several layers deep, parent company executives often demand approval rights and exert their power, without understanding the issues of starting a new business. Corporate entities operate under strict competitive and accounting rules. Every such deal was an exception.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2013

Train them fully, give them authority, make them accountable, and tie their pay to customer satisfaction. It must be understandable, written down, and verifiable, with regular measurements and metrics to make it real, benchmarked against the competition. Know your customers intimately. Make your service deliver process “happy.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2014

Don’t wait for the harsh reality of the demanding business world to start thinking about these tradeoffs. No one wants to put in money until you have a product, and you need money to build the product. Startups are usually founded by product or service experts who don’t enjoy the various growth phases. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Too many entrepreneurs develop a new product without regard to market demand, then build an entire strategy based on creating a need, rather than acting on an existing market need. Temper your product with actual market and customer feedback. Analyze how competition will react. These don’t get funded. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

People see you as great for demanding customers and team bonding. In a critical extension to this thinking, the authors and I would outline another dimension to these personality types and motivators, by defining five motivation grade levels that also impact entrepreneurial motives, actions, and satisfaction: Level A.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2018

People see you as great for demanding customers and team bonding. In a critical extension to this thinking, the authors and I would outline another dimension to these personality types and motivators, by defining five motivation grade levels that also impact entrepreneurial motives, actions, and satisfaction: Level A.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2017

Don’t wait for the harsh reality of the demanding business world to start thinking about these tradeoffs. No one wants to put in money until you have a product, and you need money to build the product. Startups are usually founded by product or service experts who don’t enjoy the various growth phases. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2014

People see you as great for demanding customers and team bonding. In a critical extension to this thinking, the authors and I would outline another dimension to these personality types and motivators, by defining five motivation grade levels that also impact entrepreneurial motives, actions, and satisfaction: Level A.

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Entrepreneur Organization Customer Custom 102

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2013

Don’t wait for the harsh reality of the demanding business world to start thinking about these tradeoffs. No one wants to put in money until you have a product, and you need money to build the product. Startups are usually founded by product or service experts who don’t enjoy the various growth phases. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2017

You will then experience satisfaction, instead of increased pressure. The most productive and respected business people know their limits and assertively protect them. Time spent building and maintaining key work relationships can dramatically improve your productivity, reduce stress, and raise your melting point.

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