Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 9, 2021

In my own view, the recovering pandemic economy is ripe for new startups, but successful startups are more about the right person, than the right idea or the right climate. You get great satisfaction from overcoming all obstacles, and you have no problem with living or dying by your own decisions. What are you waiting for?

Startup 168

Startup Ideas Satisfaction Entrepreneur 168

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Both want personal satisfaction and financial success. Every business depends on customers to thrive, and every employee role has some correlation to customer satisfaction. Corporate employees often think only about their narrow silo, their workload, and view customers as someone else’s problem. In fact, U.S.

Entrepreneur 93

Entrepreneur Satisfaction Customer Custom 93

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2020

Business success is all about having the best team, yet the average entrepreneur has little prior experience with hiring people and building top-notch teams. Hiring requirements must be anticipated and implemented with the same precision and tracking as manufacturing volumes, sales leads, and customer service. Marty Zwilling.

Organization 135

Organization Satisfaction Entrepreneur Screening 135

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2022

Don’t wait for the harsh reality of the demanding business world to start thinking about these tradeoffs. If you take investor money, expect a push for hockey-stick growth and a liquidity event, like going public (IPO) or sale (M&A), to get the payback. That’s not an attractive statistic if you crave control and power.

Startup 130

Startup USC Entrepreneur Statistics 130

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2017

Outbehave Your Competition to Create Customers for Life ,” offers eight key principles for defining and managing the experience to keep it consistent and profitable: Keep every employee on stage, delivering an experience. They have to out-behave and outperform your competition. No more gamed employee satisfaction surveys.

Customer 69

Customer Custom Training Satisfaction 69

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Outbehave Your Competition to Create Customers for Life ,” offers eight key principles for defining and managing the experience to keep it consistent and profitable: Keep every employee on stage, delivering an experience. They have to out-behave and outperform your competition. No more gamed employee satisfaction surveys.

Customer 106

Customer Custom Training Satisfaction 106

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

Outbehave Your Competition to Create Customers for Life ,” offers eight key principles for defining and managing the experience to keep it consistent and profitable: Keep every employee on stage, delivering an experience. They have to outbehave and outperform your competition. No more gamed employee satisfaction surveys.

Customer 97

Customer Custom Training Satisfaction 97

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. Constant search for ways to increase sales and profitability. More sales are the only way to reach real business success. Maintain a meaningful competitive advantage.

Entrepreneur 55

Entrepreneur Sales Customer Custom 55

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2019

Don’t wait for the harsh reality of the demanding business world to start thinking about these tradeoffs. If you take investor money, expect a push for hockey-stick growth and a liquidity event, like going public (IPO) or sale (M&A), to get the payback. That’s not an attractive statistic if you crave control and power.

Startup 97

Startup USC Entrepreneur Statistics 97

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2018

It’s easy to see how cultures go astray, for example, when you pay only for sales volume, but expect a high focus on customer satisfaction. These metrics need the same top management attention as customer retention and sales metrics. Practice humility and openness by being transparent about your own weaknesses and mistakes.

Metrics 57

Metrics Startup Netflix Customer 57

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 9, 2012

Even if you fail to achieve your financial goals, at least you will have the satisfaction of doing something you enjoy and you will never have to ask yourself, " What If? " You don't have to worry about the money; it will take care of itself. The downside of this approach is minimal. " [Tweet this quote]. Just Start. "The

Tips 277

Tips Startup Entrepreneur Entertainment 277

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. Curious to learn more about the pain and joys of bootstrapping a business, I sat down with Jim Semick, the company’s Co-Founder and Chief Strategist.

Venture Capital 115

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Santa Barbara SaaS 115

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

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. Our sales guys were on the front line and heard what they needed to win deals. Tim started to change our processes.

Organization 280

Organization Customer Custom Tips 280

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2013

Mission statements tend to be narrow, business oriented statements such as “Be the leader in customer satisfaction.” Be clear about what you stand for, inside and outside your company. The best way to be clear about them is to regularly engage team members, customers, and suppliers. Get your team right and do it quickly.

Startup 101

Startup Training Study Customer 101

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2016

Business success is all about having the best team, yet the average entrepreneur has little prior experience with hiring people and building top-notch teams. Hiring requirements must be anticipated and implemented with the same precision and tracking as manufacturing volumes, sales leads, and customer service.

Organization 57

Organization Entrepreneur Satisfaction Screening 57

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2012

Mission statements tend to be narrow, business oriented statements such as “Be the leader in customer satisfaction.” Be clear about what you stand for, inside and outside your company. The best way to be clear about them is to regularly engage team members, customers, and suppliers. Get your team right and do it quickly.

Training 109

Training Startup Study Customer 109

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2014

Don’t wait for the harsh reality of the demanding business world to start thinking about these tradeoffs. If you take investor money, expect a push for hockey-stick growth and a liquidity event, like going public (IPO) or sale (M&A), to get the payback. That’s not an attractive statistic if you crave control and power.

Entrepreneur 107

Entrepreneur Statistics Equity Satisfaction 107

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2017

Don’t wait for the harsh reality of the demanding business world to start thinking about these tradeoffs. If you take investor money, expect a push for hockey-stick growth and a liquidity event, like going public (IPO) or sale (M&A), to get the payback. That’s not an attractive statistic if you crave control and power.

Entrepreneur 57

Entrepreneur USC Statistics Equity 57

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2013

In my own view, the recovering economy is ripe for new startups, but successful startups are more about the right person, than the right idea or the right climate. You get great satisfaction from overcoming all obstacles, and you have no problem with living or dying by your own decisions. Your office would be where you want it.

Startup 103

Startup Ideas Entrepreneur Satisfaction 103

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2013

Don’t wait for the harsh reality of the demanding business world to start thinking about these tradeoffs. If you take investor money, expect a push for hockey-stick growth and a liquidity event, like going public (IPO) or sale (M&A), to get the payback. That’s not an attractive statistic if you crave control and power.

Startup 98

Startup Entrepreneur Statistics Equity 98

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

In my own view, the recovering economy is ripe for new startups, but successful startups are more about the right person, than the right idea or the right climate. You get great satisfaction from overcoming all obstacles, and you have no problem with living or dying by your own decisions. Your office is where you want it.

Startup 109

Startup Ideas Software Review Entrepreneur 109

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. You get great satisfaction from overcoming all obstacles, and you have no problem with living or dying by your own decisions.

Startup 90

Startup Entrepreneur Software Review Satisfaction 90

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 ”. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. The passion has to be in the business context – meaning results oriented, customer oriented, and sensitive to competition. Marty Zwilling.

Software Review 92

Software Review CTO Hire Outsource Development Startup 92

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2021

Your focus for momentum could be sales, profitability, or number of customers, but trying to keep all possible parameters growing is simply not practical. In most companies, maintaining momentum requires the right strategic partners and acquisitions, in lieu of short-term price adjustments and special sales.

Technical Review 160

Technical Review Technical Advisors Startup Mentor 160

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2014

As obvious as it seems I assure you that many projects I’m involved with don’t sit down and have hard enough conversations about the need to hit time-based deadlines – so dates slip. I wrote about it in this post on The Urgency Addiction. CEOs are time-driven creatures.

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Software Startup Design Course 344

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2022

If you are looking for a way to get a competitive edge, now is the time to start building a relationship with your customers, which includes active listening. Requests for input that are thinly disguised sales pitches won’t work. Others admit to surfing the web even during religious services.

Customer 104

Customer Custom Product Social Network 104

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2020

If you are looking for a way to get a competitive edge, now is the time to start building a relationship with your customers, which includes active listening. Requests for input that are thinly disguised sales pitches won’t work. Others admit to surfing the web even during religious services.

Customer 128

Customer Custom Activity Social Network 128

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2015

If you are looking for a way to get a competitive edge, now is the time to start building a relationship with your customers, which includes active listening. Requests for input that are thinly disguised sales pitches won’t work. Others admit to surfing the web even during religious services.

Customer 104

Customer Custom Startup Social Network 104

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2014

If you are looking for a way to get a competitive edge, now is the time to start building a relationship with your customers, which includes active listening. Requests for input that are thinly disguised sales pitches won’t work. Others admit to surfing the web even during religious services.

Customer 106

Customer Custom Entrepreneur Social Network 106

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

If you are looking for a way to get a competitive edge, now is the time to start building a relationship with your customers, which includes active listening. Requests for input that are thinly disguised sales pitches won’t work. Others admit to surfing the web even during religious services.

Customer 53

Customer Custom Social Network Study 53