Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Fortunately, despite their lack of basic business experience, the destined-to-be-great entrepreneurs never give up, following Bill Gates after his first failure with Traf-O-Data, and Jeff Bezos after early failure with his online auction site. Startups don’t come with formal training courses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Another example is Facebook , maintaining motivation with food, stock options, collaborative office space, an on-site laundry, and a competitive atmosphere that fosters personal growth and learning with great benefits. Good hiring, training, and mentoring are the best motivators. Practice every day what you preach. Start today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Others schedule exhaustive training sessions for everyone on the team, including showcase customers, to make sure that everyone paints a consistent picture. The Founder needs to remember that meetings up to this point have been primarily off-site, with staged demos, and managed personally by the CEO or a small team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2020

Fortunately, despite their lack of basic business experience, the destined-to-be-great entrepreneurs never give up, following Bill Gates after his first failure with Traf-O-Data, and Jeff Bezos after early failure with his online auction site. Startups don’t come with formal training courses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2023

Create mentorship programs and conduct positive team building activities both off-site and on-site. You can help them set goals, and you need to provide resources and access to training required. In hybrid work environments, it’s important that leaders schedule regular office hours, and do virtual and live walk-arounds.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2020

Another example is Facebook , maintaining motivation with food, stock options, collaborative office space, an on-site laundry, and a competitive atmosphere that fosters personal growth and learning with great benefits. Good hiring, training, and mentoring are the best motivators. Practice every day what you preach. Start today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2021

Others schedule exhaustive training sessions for everyone on the team, including showcase customers, to make sure that everyone paints a consistent picture. The Founder needs to remember that meetings up to this point have been primarily off-site, with staged demos, and managed personally by the CEO or a small team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Provide the resources and training to get the job done. Be sure to tie changes back to the “why” – customer value, business objectives, and competition. If you approach your present difficulties as a near-term problem only, your competition will outpace you. Don’t tolerate or play the blame game.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2018

The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( over 200 exist ), or another dating site (over 2500 in the US alone). Creating intellectual property, including patents, is the kay to long-term value and a sustainable competitive advantage. Training and coaching. Accountability.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2015

The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( over 200 active ), or another dating site (now over 2500 in the US alone). Creating intellectual property, including patents, is the key to long-term value and a sustainable competitive advantage. Training and coaching. Accountability.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Santa Monica-based Demand Media has released traffic statistics for its LIVESTRONG.COM web site, its joint venture with cyclist Lance Armstrong, saying that the site now has more than 4 million monthly visits and over 650,000 registered members. The site, which launched in June, is focused on health, fitness, and related information.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2023

Don’t forget to consider customer alternatives, like trains versus airplanes. These days, you can find existing patents and trademarks through Google and the US Patent Office online site without spending thousands of dollars with your favorite patent attorney. Check for intellectual property barriers in your way.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Services Startup Training Writing 105

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2016

The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( over 200 active ), or another dating site (over 2500 in the US alone). Creating intellectual property, including patents, is the kay to long-term value and a sustainable competitive advantage. Training and coaching. Accountability.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

Even a million users on your social media site won’t pay the bills until you sell some advertising or a premium service. It’s your job as a leader to be the model high performer, quantify the team view with metrics, and expand awareness to the best outside competition and new tools. Attract, train, and reward only the best leaders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2020

Describe technology and features, not competitiveness. It should be imbedded in the home page of your web site, the introduction section of your business plan, the heart of your executive summary, and the first slide of your investor pitch. For example, “I have patented a new tire that will double the wear mileage at half the cost.”

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

The fitness professional network develops business tools that make it easier for fitness professionals to run their businesses and keep their clients engaged between training sessions. We knew there’s a better personal training experience to be had, so we set out to create one. Any competition in LA? Who is on your team?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In addition, like an entrepreneur with a new business, you have to factor in all the indirect costs previously covered by employers, including training, health care, and time off for vacations. Here are some key strategies that I recommend to every worker today: Develop and highlight your competitive differentiation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. Capture your “secret sauce.”

Services 61

Services Startup Training Writing 61

Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

New employees are offered $2,000 to quit after the first week of training if they decide the job isn’t for them. Chevron shows it cares about employees by providing health and fitness centers on site or through health-club memberships. It offers other health-oriented programs such as massages and personal training.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

New employees are offered $2,000 to quit after the first week of training if they decide the job isn’t for them. Chevron shows it cares about employees by providing health and fitness centers on site or through health-club memberships. It offers other health-oriented programs such as massages and personal training.

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Southern California Edison Blog

APRIL 21, 2020

Network speeds are closely tied to an organization’s ability to stay productive and remain competitive and profitable at all times. While this doesn’t address remote employees, it could remove some of the strain on your wireless networks by having on-site employees tap into wired networks when available. Upgrade Network Infrastructure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2016

Fortunately, despite their lack of basic business experience, the destined-to-be-great entrepreneurs never give up, following Bill Gates after his first failure with Traf-O-Data, and Jeff Bezos after early failure with his online auction site. Startups don’t come with formal training courses.

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Entrepreneur Training Startup IBM 64

socalTECH

JULY 28, 2014

In an intensely competitive area, how do you differentiate yourself and grow a company? Editor''s note: we''re cross posting this on our Texas site, as Fonality is split between Culver City and Plano, Texas. You can even listen in, as a training technique, to those calls. What does Fonality do?

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socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2010

Albert previously founded CheapCheapCheap.com, an online coupon and deal finding site, and we thought we'd hear from Albert why he thinks the local, group purchasing market is so interesting, and how he hopes to grow the service beyond just Orange County. What is the site all about? How did DealPerk.com come about?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2009

For this morning's interview, we sat down and talked with Nick Desai , CEO of Global Fitness Media , which runs FitOrbit (www.fitorbit.com), an online site looking to help users put together a fitness and connect with fitness trainers. For those who haven't visited your site, what is FitOrbit? Thanks for talking with us.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

Gabe Rivera wrote a post on why TechMeme is now using its editors to curate titles that appear on its site. I would delete my Tweet and then write something like, “ Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. He writes every day so people are trained to get their daily dose of Fred. Headlines matter.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

He offers six tricks for jumping off the excuse train and forge the path to your goals: • Avoid the need to blame others for anything. Here’s something to remember: Your entire life has been a training ground for you to capture your destiny right now. A sparring or running partner is a great way to refresh physical competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

Others schedule exhaustive training sessions for everyone on the team, including showcase customers, to make sure that everyone paints a consistent picture. The Founder needs to remember that meetings up to this point have been primarily off-site, with staged demos, and managed personally by the CEO or a small team.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Entrepreneur 108

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2016

Another example is Facebook , maintaining motivation with food, stock options, collaborative office space, an on-site laundry, and a competitive atmosphere that fosters personal growth and learning with great benefits. Good hiring, training, and mentoring are the best motivators. Practice every day what you preach. Start today.

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Startup Examples Mentor Activity 58

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 24, 2016

For example, you probably never heard that both Facebook and YouTube started out fully intending to be dating sites, but pivoted to something more unique when they found that dating had already become an over-crowded market. Existing users are trained by use, and rarely move for usability alone. Their pivots were early but real.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Our original German site, mitfahrgelegenheit.de , was founded as a student project in 2001. Unfortunately he didn’t own a car so, in order to visit her, he had to shell out a lot of money each weekend on expensive train tickets. Any competition back home? Carpooling.com connects people so they can share their rides.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

This time I’ll use a hypothetical health-care web site company named NewCo as an example to illustrate the points. Two founders have spent $200K of personal and family funds over a one year period to start the company, get a prototype site up and running, and have already generated some “buzz” in the Internet community.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2010

The legal hiring market is very competitive.” Web reputation maligning has become a serious problem, and I can find only a couple of sites so far, like ReputationDefender , which are focused on the issue. Other sites, like Yelp , focus on reviews of businesses. hiring officials use the Internet in vetting job applications.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In the case of MakeSpace we had huge initial successes in New York City as Rahul led the scaling of our drivers, our trucks and our warehouses and we figured out the right price points to beat the local competition. We have been able to build deep customer insights on product, pricing, service, geography, competition, etc.

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