Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Freelancers and consultants have to demonstrate results, without training and mentoring, so they can help you more quickly and probably at a lower total cost. Full-time employees require considerable overhead for facilities, training, severance, and benefits for performance. Prioritize demonstrated execution versus potential.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Both are required to stay competitive. Current surveys and case studies show that the more mature workers are just as productive as their younger counterparts, are just as successful in training, take less short-term time off, and offer better judgment based on years of experience. Explore benefits of employing “mature” workers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2019

While thinking about it, I realized that it’s really not that different from the toughness required and trained into America’s elite military force of Navy SEALs, who are known to be cool under fire, able to sense danger before it’s too late, and never give up on achieving their objective. Achieve twenty times more than you think you can.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Wednesday, September 22, 2010 -- Social Enterprise Venture Competition. The program provides training and mentoring programs for mission-based nonprofits seeking to create an earned income stream through a social venture.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 19, 2012

Professional investors laugh when they hear an entrepreneur state, “We have no competition.” If you are training your sales staff, work especially hard on responding to emotional and factual counters to a final close of a sale. That statement has killed more investment deals than almost any other.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2021

Irvine-based analytics software developer Alteryx says it has launched a program which allows educators, students, and life-long learners to access its training, software, and certifications for no cost.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

As an investor, I always listen carefully to what an entrepreneur says, and does not say, about competition. Every business area has competition and every customer has alternatives, so a smart entrepreneur needs to acknowledge these as a positive in defining a big market, and position the features of a new solution in this context.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2014

Competition for your new hydrogen fuel auto engine is not limited to other hydrogen auto engine offerings, or even other autos. Remember the transportation transitions from horses to autos to trains to airplanes. Prior recognition and visibility in the target market is invaluable from a competitive perspective. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Last week, the University of Southern California 's Viterbi School of Engineering announced that it had established a new, business plan competition, the Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition ([link] specifically aimed at students in the engineering school. Why a business plan competition, and why in engineering school?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The only “sustainable competitive advantage” in business is self-awareness. They don’t hesitate to get help from executive coaches, Meyers Briggs training, or other peer groups, such as the EO Network. It’s a recipe for disaster.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2022

Most businesses spend big money testing their brand logo, catchy marketing phrases, and demographics, but spend little time training and validating that their employees can and do deliver exceptional experiences to their customers. They have to out-behave and outperform your competition. Gregg Lederman, in his classic book, “ ENGAGED!:

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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. Train and coach continuously. Train and coach continuously.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2023

With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. You have no shelf life, so you can’t make money while you sleep.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Competition for your new hydrogen fuel auto engine is not limited to other hydrogen auto engine offerings, or even other autos. Remember the transportation transitions from horses to autos to trains to airplanes. Prior recognition and visibility in the target market is invaluable from a competitive perspective.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2023

Show that you have a process to hire, fire, and train others as required. For progress and success assessment, each of these needs some metrics defined, a training plan, and responsibility assignments within your team. No mention usually means no plan and not competitive. Formalize the use of tools and information technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2023

Creating intellectual property, including patents, is the kay to long-term value and a sustainable competitive advantage. Training and coaching. Sustainable innovation is really the only sustainable competitive advantage. Accountability.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2010

One of the most important questions you will be asked by potential investors is how your solutions beats the competition, not just today, but over the three to five year life of their investment. The concept is called “sustainable competitive advantage.” That implies competitive now, and the potential to stay in the lead.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

El Segundo-based The List , a startup which operates a matchmaking service for business professionals, is one of four, female-led startups which is part of Beta Boom , a startup accelerator focused on training traditionally overlooked founders, such as women and people of color.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 29, 2019

When ProGuides pulled the covers off of its service earlier this year, the young Los Angeles-based startup intended to give gamers a way to train with professional and semi-pro esports players from around the world. The LA-based company also has some venture-backed competition on the East Coast.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. You have no shelf life, so you can’t make money while you sleep.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Highlight the competitive edge you bring to the market. Proactively provide training and team member rotation. Keep up with new technology for internal processes, actively hire people with new skills, and provide industry training for exposure to new techniques and competition. This is not a place for friends and family.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 9, 2020

The venture is also one of the few e-motorcycle companies drawing engineering tips from competition. Track competition is a secondary arena for Energica. But the competition is closing in on some of the Italian EV maker’s numbers. MotoE Worldcup racing, Image Credits: Energica.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Many entrepreneurs I have mentored make big mistakes in this area, by hiring low-cost friends and family, with minimal skills or training, and expecting them to have the same work ethic , passion, and business knowledge as the founder. You contract expertise rather than train employees. with experience.

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socalTECH

APRIL 19, 2019

Forge's software lets businesses may interview, hire and train other employees from nearby businesses who are non-competitive in the network and looking for more hours. Financial details of the partnership with Mall of America were not announced. Forge is led by CEO Stacey Ferreira.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 1, 2019

From experience and from information about the competition, a coach creates a playbook that contains detailed plans for actions or plays that the entire team must know without question and execute without pause in order to win games and advance toward the playoffs. Trained employees execute their tasks better than those who are not.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 23, 2021

Here are my recommendations for training and managing your team to keep their delivery memorable for customers, as well as profitable for your business: Hire team members who enjoy customer interaction. Provide training, tools, and required decision authority. That approach still is meaningful today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2023

Train customer-facing team to collaborate with customers. Internal training and policies are not adequate to create great customer experiences. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2021

Waste in a startup is any activity that burns resources, but creates no value or competitive advantage in the eyes of customers. Trying to do too many things with too few resources, usually means the startup will not shine at anything, and will not survive the competition. In the startup world, this is often seen as a lack of focus.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2022

I call this linear thinking , and it’s a sure way to be ultimately overrun by your competition. For example, Elon Musk, who owns many battery patents , normally kept for a competitive edge, decided to open them all to any competitors in an effort to expand the market for his electric vehicles. Always practice thinking outside the box.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2022

As an introvert and a techy, I know well the challenges of building relationships in today’s competitive world. Startups don’t come with formal training courses. New entrepreneurs quickly find that what they learned in business school is no substitute for real-world business experience and training.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

In today’s knowledge-based and highly competitive environment, strategic leadership and company direction can still most quickly be decided and executed in a hierarchical organization. Leadership and hierarchy perform strategic functions. Innovations, both inside and outside the company, are driven more by great thinkers than organizations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2020

Show that you have a process to hire, fire, and train others as required. For progress and success assessment, each of these needs some metrics defined, a training plan, and responsibility assignments within your team. No mention usually means no plan and not competitive. Formalize the use of tools and information technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

For new entrepreneurs and startups, I recommend an initial focus on these six steps from the very beginning to set the right culture and save the tremendous cost of a transformation and risky competitive catch-up later: Start with an overriding top-down focus on customer experience. Find the best of the best models, and aim even higher.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Hire and train your own managers for internal and external work projects. Adapting to culture goes both ways, and training is the key. You will need to invest more in training your own team, and increase your capital budget for new hardware and software. With the high-speed Internet, our workers can be anywhere in the world.”

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Email readers, continue here…] Too often the person you call your chief financial officer is trained in accounting, which is primarily a process of looking backward over events in the past. Fourth is competitive risk. Third is finance risk. This consists of two separate risks. first appeared on BERKONOMICS.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2021

He later closed more than 8,000 of his stores for a day to provide employee racial-bias training. In today’s world, every organization needs to be in a constant state of change to stay competitive. They provide ongoing motivation by recognizing and rewarding effort, and the training to do the job right.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 26, 2020

Reports indicate that Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna Maria-Onore Bryant, and seven other passengers were on board a helicopter traveling to Bryant’s basketball training facility Mamba Academy. There were no survivors. “This loss is shocking and puts into perspective how precious our moments on this earth really are.

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