Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2012

You hear a lot of talk these days about the importance of customer satisfaction, but customer loyalty is the real win. Herein lies an opportunity for startups to beat the big guys. Whatever the reasons for the change, and there are many, it represents a big opportunity to the small businesses and startups who recognize it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2020

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. Many researchers conclude that more than 60 percent of employees at large corporations are not committed to their business. Maintain a meaningful competitive advantage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

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. Identify and redirect unhealthy competition and comparisons. Fortunately, both can be fixed.

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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

AUGUST 10, 2019

Most entrepreneurs struggle with many startup founders quandaries in building their business, and these key dilemmas are probably the biggest source of pain and failure for the entrepreneur lifestyle. People may jump into the lifestyle to be their own boss, achieve great wealth, start a new trend, or all the above.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2013

Young entrepreneurs and startups, in particular, often remain naively unfocused, despite their passion, of what it takes to provide the high-quality service expected. It’s a tough job, and inexperienced entrepreneurs just don’t know where to start, and how to do it. Know your customers intimately. Involve, empower, and inspire.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2022

According to a classic survey conducted by Dimensional Research for Zendesk , 90 percent of respondents asserted that positive online reviews influenced buying decisions, and 86 percent admitted buying decisions were influenced by negative online reviews. Bureaucracy can appear quickly in startups as well as large companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2015

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. Identify and redirect unhealthy competition and comparisons. Fortunately, both can be fixed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2022

In my role of business advisor to startups, I often recommend these to increase initial brand identity and market penetration. With the rate of market change today, and the advent of worldwide competitors, you need every strategy you can muster to keep up, and respond quickly to new threats. Stay current.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

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. Identify and redirect unhealthy competition and comparisons. Fortunately, both can be fixed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2014

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. Identify and redirect unhealthy competition and comparisons. Fortunately, both can be fixed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2013

Most entrepreneurs struggle with many startup Founders dilemmas in building their business, and these key dilemmas are probably the biggest source of pain and failure for the entrepreneur lifestyle. People may jump into the lifestyle to be their own boss, achieve great wealth, start a new trend, or all the above.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

According to a classic survey conducted by Dimensional Research for Zendesk , 90 percent of respondents asserted that positive online reviews influenced buying decisions, and 86 percent admitted buying decisions were influenced by negative online reviews. Bureaucracy can appear quickly in startups as well as large companies.

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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. Take satisfaction from wins to balance against setbacks. Write down your top 5 core values and review them often.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2016

Take an honest look at your motivation, resources and relationships before initiating a startup. These days, there are over 150 credible market-research companies online sizing opportunities, including Nielsen and Gartner. No amount of passion and startup planning will make everything work exactly right the first time.

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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. Many researchers conclude that more than 60 percent of employees at large corporations are not committed to their business. Maintain a meaningful competitive advantage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about “ Ten of the Worst Reasons for Starting a Business ,” so naturally a reader challenged me to turn that around and talk about the right reasons for starting a business. This is a necessary, but not sufficient reason to start a business now. This is the right context for being your own boss.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

This is part of my ongoing posts on Startup Advice. The world has changed much since I started my first company in 1999. Tim started to change our processes. Tim encouraged us to set up a blog and start talking openly about what we were doing as a company and inviting comments. Back then it seemed foreign.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

In big business, as well as startups, I have found that your effectiveness can be highly correlated to your ability to build and maintain people relationships, often more so than hard work, or how many hours you give. Work to make your ability to manage relationships your sustainable competitive advantage. A good coach is not a critic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2016

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. Also, most people don’t realize that Richard Branson has dyslexia, which made him a poor student, so he faced adversity well before his first startup effort.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2014

Most entrepreneurs struggle with many startup Founders dilemmas in building their business, and these key dilemmas are probably the biggest source of pain and failure for the entrepreneur lifestyle. People may jump into the lifestyle to be their own boss, achieve great wealth, start a new trend, or all the above.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2010

A week ago I talked about how and where to find a co-founder in “ How to Select an Ideal Startup Co-Founder ”. If you team with a Gen-Y type who likes to start work in the late morning, and reserves the weekend for other activities, the partnership will likely not work. Look impartially from all angles and do the follow-up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2015

According to a survey conducted by Dimensional Research for Zendesk , 90 percent of respondents asserted that positive online reviews influenced buying decisions, and 86 percent admitted buying decisions were influenced by negative online reviews. Bureaucracy can appear quickly in startups as well as large companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

According to a classic survey conducted by Dimensional Research for Zendesk , 90 percent of respondents asserted that positive online reviews influenced buying decisions, and 86 percent admitted buying decisions were influenced by negative online reviews. Bureaucracy can appear quickly in startups as well as large companies.

Technical Review 68

Technical Review Organization Entrepreneur Social Media 68

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2017

Most entrepreneurs struggle with many startup founders dilemmas in building their business, and these key dilemmas are probably the biggest source of pain and failure for the entrepreneur lifestyle. People may jump into the lifestyle to be their own boss, achieve great wealth, start a new trend, or all the above.

Entrepreneur 57

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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 always starts with trust. Set a definite task completion date and a follow-up system. In this way you can check up on progress before the final deadline, without fuzzy questions like “How are you doing?”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2014

According to a recent survey conducted by Dimensional Research for Zendesk , 90 percent of respondents asserted that positive online reviews influenced buying decisions, and 86 percent admitted buying decisions were influenced by negative online reviews. Bureaucracy can appear quickly in startups as well as large companies.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Organization Social Media 100

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Most of you business professionals that I know have at least thought about or talked about starting their own business, to get more control, make more money, or to get more satisfaction out of their life. As a mentor to young aspiring entrepreneurs , I often get asked for tips on a strategy to get started.

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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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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. 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 ?

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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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