Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2019

Unfortunately, work and satisfaction have become an oxymoron in many businesses. Regularly asking for insight, and then following up, to fix these wasted efforts, will improve job satisfaction, as well as productivity. For example, you can share stories of customer satisfaction, and acknowledge people’s contributions to their peers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2023

Be accessible on social media, write a blog or articles for industry publications, and participate in conference panels and speaking engagements. Product companies sometimes equate customer satisfaction with customer service, but it’s more than that, especially with services. Be a visible and available expert in your domain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2023

Utilize all the avenues for networking, including industry conferences, investor meetings, peer gatherings, and local civic organizations, to make your presence and value known. But if you do it right, the joys and satisfaction, as well as financial returns, of your success can’t be beat.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

Be accessible on social media, write a blog or articles for industry publications, and participate in conference panels and speaking engagements. Product companies sometimes equate customer satisfaction with customer service, but it’s more than that, especially with services. Be a visible and available expert in your domain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2022

It’s been happening for some time, but business changes, accelerated by the recent pandemic, have highlighted the need for all of us to review our positions, image, and satisfaction at work. Now may be the time to build new credentials is this digital age by taking time for education courses and attending digital conferences.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Actively seek out and attend key outside business conferences in order to meet and get to know people who can help you, and you can help in return. You will find your efforts are returned many times over, and your feelings of isolation and stress are replaced with connections and satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2015

New business models that provide an ongoing revenue stream, or a secondary stream from advertising, raise your margins and can give you some additional satisfaction. Enjoy that first video interview at an industry conference, or the newspaper story which enhances your startup visibility and credibility.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Allocate time for active participation in relevant outside industry conferences, and public panels or TED talks that look ahead. That doesn’t mean that you can’t be an entrepreneur today, or feel success and satisfaction from your efforts. Online it may be time to take a formal position via blogs and interviews.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This may mean attending industry conferences, taking college courses, or reading some key books. The more you use your new-found leadership ability, the greater will be your satisfaction and confidence. Increase your own knowledge in areas of interest. Display personal leadership often to build momentum.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 3, 2015

Many women rose to the top of their careers only to discover how unsatisfying, soul-draining and unhealthy a lifestyle it was and completely changed careers to find satisfaction doing something completely different where they once again became successful, but in a more balanced manner.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Find time in your work schedule for networking, working lunches, and business conferences, where you can test your ideas, learn, and generate support. Take satisfaction from wins to balance against setbacks. Define a clear break between work and private activities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Without a measurable objective, you will be constantly frustrated by not seeing progress, and you will never feel success satisfaction. Don’t be too busy to attend industry conferences, mingle with experts, and negotiate partner relationships to fill gaps. Avoid fuzzy goals, like making big money or being a market leader.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2016

New business models that provide an ongoing revenue stream, or a secondary stream from advertising, raise your margins and can give you some additional satisfaction. Enjoy that first video interview at an industry conference, or the newspaper story which enhances your startup visibility and credibility.

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socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2011

Then I remember another data point, 2 years ago when I sponsored the UC Irvine Entrepreneurship Conference; the keynote was given by a woman who's company delivered school lunches to kids. But I remember her dedication and something more I could sense: she was enjoying a supreme sense of satisfaction as she fulfilled her ambitious dreams.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Today, customers and future managers put a higher value on relationships, and expect to know you from industry conferences, social media, or recommendations from peers. Focus on the ultimate customer, and find a way to improve satisfaction, grow revenue, or cut costs. Market yourself both inside and outside your current job.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

Be accessible on social media, write a blog or articles for industry publications, and participate in conference panels and speaking engagements. Product companies sometimes equate customer satisfaction with customer service, but it’s more than that, especially with services. Be a visible and available expert in your domain.

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Xconomy

JUNE 23, 2016

At their annual developer conferences, Google I/O, held last month, and Apple’s WWDC, last week they both announced updates to their development platforms. There were also areas in which the focus of the two conferences diverged. In many ways, Apple and Google are following similar paths.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

Be accessible on social media, write a blog or articles for industry publications, and participate in conference panels and speaking engagements. Product companies sometimes equate customer satisfaction with customer service, but it’s more than that, especially with services. Be a visible and available expert in your domain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2014

I’ve written about this before, but I was reminded again a while back at a conference for startups when an entrepreneur started berating investors for not funding early-stage startups. Make sure they understand the sense of urgency to address customer satisfaction and market needs. “I And like water or food, it isn’t free.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

Be accessible on social media, write a blog or articles for industry publications, and participate in conference panels and speaking engagements. Product companies sometimes equate customer satisfaction with customer service, but it’s more than that, especially with services. Be a visible and available expert in your domain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

It also highlights all aspects of required customer service, satisfaction, testimonials, and referrals to friends in the business. You need to use the modern vehicles for promotion and relationship building, including a professional web site, social media, and industry conferences to show your expertise, credentials, and connections.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2013

I’ve written about this before, but I was surprised again recently at a conference for startups when a couple of entrepreneurs started berating investors for their low rate of funding for early-stage startups. Make sure they understand the sense of urgency to address customer satisfaction and market needs. “I

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2012

I’ve written about this before, but I was surprised again recently at a conference for startups when a couple of entrepreneurs started berating investors for their low rate of funding for early-stage startups. Make sure they understand the sense of urgency to address customer satisfaction and market needs. “I

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Steve Reich

JUNE 11, 2012

They have periodic conference calls with groups of users. User satisfaction shot up, and the revenue will soon be replaced either by a sponsorship from a golf vendor, or by fewer ads specifically targeted to golfers. They read product reviews obsessively. More importantly, they act on the input.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2011

I’ve written about this before, but I was surprised again recently at a conference for startups when a couple of entrepreneurs started berating investors for their low rate of funding for early-stage startups. Make sure they understand the sense of urgency to address customer satisfaction and market needs. “I

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

“CEOs need to derive satisfaction from the nuts and bolts of building a company, not just building product and articulating the vision. The truth is I have never enjoyed running team meetings, managing processes & procedures and deciding HR policies, promotions and org structures.

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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. You must feel satisfaction. The challenge is when and how to make the switch to the entrepreneur lifestyle.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

There has recently been a common theme among the entrepreneurs I have interviewed and the conferences I have attended: despite the relatively weak state of the world economy, now is a great time to create a high-tech startup. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.”. Bargains Galore.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 27, 2011

In a pivotal scene from his book Start-up , Jerry Kaplan describes how he mesmerized a group of jaded Kleiner Perkins venture capitalists (VC) by throwing his leather portfolio onto a conference table and dramatically describing it as a handheld device that could digitize handwriting.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2014

We feel pressure to hit milestones for a variety of reasons: Investor presentations, conference demos, customer sales meetings, competitive pressures, a need to drive revenue, business development commitments – whatever. Obviously you can’t always present at conferences to hit delivery dates or this would happen.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

It was just minutes before I was supposed to go on stage for the very first time and present The Lean Startup to a large audience, at a big conference. Keep going. You feel like maybe, possibly, you kinda got it now. Keep going.

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