Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Customers react poorly when they hear your value claims for them, and see more value to you (bottled water in your hotel room at a high price as a “convenience” to you). If you are looking for a lasting competitive advantage, I recommend that you follow the steps outlined here to create experiences that your customers crave.

Custom 158

Custom Customer Social Media Satisfaction 158

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Incidentally, if you never thought of yourself as being an A-Player employee, you probably will struggle even more in the competitive entrepreneur world. These look exactly like the strategies I have been recommending to every entrepreneur for growing their business, versus developing a solution.

Entrepreneur 159

Entrepreneur Custom Customer Competition 159

Berkonomics

JULY 26, 2012

If every development engineer could control the release date of the component or product for which s/he is responsible, the dates for completion would certainly extend outward and vary from plan. And yet, who would not want the highest quality product to place into a competitive marketplace?

Satisfaction 136

Satisfaction Competition Pricing Design 136

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2020

Entrepreneurs need to document a process of responding to a market need, sizing opportunity, assigning a specific business model, and planning for marketing, sales, and customer satisfaction. Solution development and delivery. Hobbies are developed ad-hoc, driven by personal needs.

Entrepreneur 131

Entrepreneur Outsource Development Startup Competition 131

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2021

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. Visit reference customers, partners, and vendors. Traction in the marketplace.

Technical Review 151

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Invest 151

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As a builder of new things and people development, you are not afraid to speak out on significant issues and world challenges. Entrepreneurs at this level will seek the minimum cost and quality to be more competitive. Advertising, pricing and support practices may show questionable integrity.

Entrepreneur 110

Entrepreneur Organization Custom Customer 110

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Both want personal satisfaction and financial success. There are some key strategies I recommend in developing that mindset, whether you are currently and employee or an aspiring entrepreneur: Keep the business customer at the top of your pyramid. The ideal customer will see so much value that price becomes unimportant.

Entrepreneur 93

Entrepreneur Satisfaction Custom Customer 93

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2019

I found some good guidance on this subject in a new book, “ The Leader You Want To Be ,” by Amy Jen Su, a managing partner in an executive coaching and leadership development firm. I get much more satisfaction, and can provide more realistic help, in steering you through specific pricing, organizational, or competitive challenges you face.

Help 123

Help Entrepreneur Course IBM 123

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In essence, as a contractor, you are a consultant who is competing regularly for new work, and you constantly have to differentiate your offering from other candidates, including price. Here are some key strategies that I recommend to every worker today: Develop and highlight your competitive differentiation.

Startup 98

Startup Outsource Development Competition Social Media 98

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2020

As a builder of new things and people development, you are not afraid to speak out on significant issues and world challenges. Entrepreneurs at this level will seek the minimum cost and quality to be more competitive. Advertising, pricing and support practices may show questionable integrity.

Entrepreneur 126

Entrepreneur Organization Custom Customer 126

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

Customers react poorly when they hear your value claims for them, and see more value to you (bottled water in your hotel room at a high price as a “convenience” to you). If you are looking for a lasting competitive advantage, I recommend that you follow the steps outlined here to create experiences that your customers crave.

Custom 100

Custom Customer Social Media Training 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2015

Entrepreneurs need to document a process of responding to a market need, sizing opportunity, assigning a specific business model, and planning for marketing, sales, and customer satisfaction. Solution development and delivery. Hobbies are developed ad-hoc, driven by personal needs.

Outsource Development 99

Outsource Development Startup Competition Ideas 99

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2015

In reality, resource constraints should be seen by startups a competitive advantage, by forcing them to develop new markets, and to think differently and act differently than existing players. Adding priced services is another way to augment a product business. Create new kinds of solutions. It’s still a hard road to success.

Resource 98

Resource Entrepreneur Competition Startup 98

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2013

Explain that they may be called, and use the opportunity to check their satisfaction with your company and your product. This will cover the technology, the current state of development, and customer satisfaction. This will involve an analysis of the company’s distribution channels, advertising, and pricing strategy.

Technical Review 97

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Summary 97

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2016

Entrepreneurs need to document a process of responding to a market need, sizing opportunity, assigning a specific business model, and planning for marketing, sales, and customer satisfaction. Solution development and delivery. Hobbies are developed ad-hoc, driven by personal needs.

Ideas 62

Ideas Outsource Development Startup Competition 62

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2016

Customers react poorly when they hear your value claims for them, and see more value to you (bottled water in your hotel room at a high price as a “convenience” to you). If you are looking for a lasting competitive advantage, I recommend that you follow the steps outlined here to create experiences that your customers crave.

Custom 97

Custom Customer Social Media Training 97

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2012

Explain that they may be called, and use the opportunity to check their satisfaction with your company and your product. This will cover the technology, the current state of development, and customer satisfaction. This will involve an analysis of the company’s distribution channels, advertising, and pricing strategy.

Technical Review 98

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Training 98

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2015

In addition, good marketing and support plans can take as long as product development. Paradigm-shift solutions have no competition." The real competition to a new paradigm is the old paradigm. The first airplane faced major competition from trains and automobiles. Do both in parallel to be timely.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Startup Social Media Competition 60

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

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. Visit reference customers, partners, and vendors. Traction in the marketplace.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Entrepreneur 108

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. Analyze how competition will react. Will your competitors quickly copy you, or under-price you? These don’t get funded. Marty Zwilling.

Technology 91

Technology Funding Competition Entrepreneur 91

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Incidentally, if you never thought of yourself as being an A-Player employee, you probably will struggle even more in the competitive entrepreneur world. These look exactly like the strategies I have been recommending to every entrepreneur for growing their business, versus developing a solution.

Entrepreneur 54

Entrepreneur Custom Customer Competition 54

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Explain that they may be called, and use the opportunity to check their satisfaction with your company and your product. This will cover the technology, the current state of development, and customer satisfaction. This will involve an analysis of the company’s distribution channels, advertising, and pricing strategy.

Technical Review 91

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Summary 91

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. Analyze how competition will react. Will your competitors quickly copy you, or under-price you? These don’t get funded. Marty Zwilling.

Funding 88

Funding Entrepreneur Competition Pricing 88

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

As a builder of new things and people development, you are not afraid to speak out on significant issues and world challenges. Entrepreneurs at this level will seek the minimum cost and quality to be more competitive. Advertising, pricing and support practices may show questionable integrity.

Entrepreneur 101

Entrepreneur Organization Custom Customer 101

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2018

As a builder of new things and people development, you are not afraid to speak out on significant issues and world challenges. Entrepreneurs at this level will seek the minimum cost and quality to be more competitive. Advertising, pricing and support practices may show questionable integrity.

Entrepreneur 66

Entrepreneur Organization Custom Customer 66

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2014

As a builder of new things and people development, you are not afraid to speak out on significant issues and world challenges. Entrepreneurs at this level will seek the minimum cost and quality to be more competitive. Advertising, pricing and support practices may show questionable integrity.

Entrepreneur 102

Entrepreneur Organization Custom Customer 102

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. On the product development side, we conduct retrospectives twice a month — there is an open exchange of ideas for improvement.

Venture Capital 115

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Santa Barbara SaaS 115

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? We had several emails back and forth where he provided basic details on the concept. What went wrong? Keep going. Keep going.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175