Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Most entrepreneurs start from a base of one or two co-founders, and their vision and focus is on developing an innovative solution, rather than developing people. Measure and measure again, and be quick to course correct. Don’t confuse engagement or satisfaction surveys with culture surveys.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2019

Unfortunately, work and satisfaction have become an oxymoron in many businesses. I found many more helpful suggestions in a new book, “ The Culture Question ,” by Randy Grieser, Eric Stutzman, Wendy Loewen, and Michael Labun, who have spent years providing leadership and professional development training to companies around the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Of course, this kind of leadership has a big risk, since you have no one to blame if you get it wrong. The challenge is how to develop that self-leadership in every aspiring entrepreneur and business professional role. This may mean attending industry conferences, taking college courses, or reading some key books.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2022

Of course, these are great, but they don’t happen without enlightened leadership coming first. Leaders today must always project confidence and help others develop confidence, courage, and curiosity. I believe that business cultures are a function of people and leadership, more than programs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2023

Both ends of this spectrum fail to bring long-term satisfaction or success. For example, the handmade-item platform Etsy sponsors free entrepreneurship courses for underemployed and unemployed people, including assistance in setting up a store on Etsy, thus adding more artists and artisan sellers to their platform.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Both ends of this spectrum fail to bring long-term satisfaction or success. For example, the handmade-item platform Etsy sponsors free entrepreneurship courses for underemployed and unemployed people, including assistance in setting up a store on Etsy, thus adding more artists and artisan sellers to their platform.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2023

Of course, margin and profitability are important, but must be committed to adding more value to the lives of your clients, and making the world a better place. Seek customer feedback on ways to improve value and satisfaction. Develop a mindset of improvement versus defense. Define and focus on a mission to add value.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2023

To compensate, every visionary entrepreneur needs to find a partner who gets great satisfaction from results, and loves the discipline of making things happen on a day-to-day basis. This person is the glue that can hold the people, processes, systems, priorities, and strategy of a developing startup together.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2020

Of course, most of you expect that raising money will be difficult, as well as staving off competitors, and handling that occasional toxic customer. Then there are those pesky competitor responses, always driving down margins and forcing you to develop new features. You need all the positive traction you can get to survive and prosper.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2022

The concept of “ force multipliers ” originally was developed in military science, but certainly applies equally well to business. Of course, such actions are equally applicable to businesses at any stage. It refers to multiplication factors that occur when complementary actions or approaches are used together for greater impact.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2019

I found some good guidance on this subject in a new book, “ The Leader You Want To Be ,” by Amy Jen Su, a managing partner in an executive coaching and leadership development firm. Of course, there are good ways and bad ways to ask for help.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 11, 2010

I’ve seen that in courses and in design specs many times, and it’s a HORRIBLE IDEA. Of course, improving customer satisfaction is a goal, but the system would drill down to specific issues such as knowledge of store layout. In fact, we’ve also used it as a means of some fairly generic goal setting processes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Of course, you can be overly confident or unrealistic in your expectations, without the skills or plans to run a business. I often hear entrepreneurs talk about wanting to get rich quickly, when I know that money is not usually the key to satisfaction or happiness. Always be your own best (and most honest) friend.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2020

To compensate, every visionary entrepreneur needs to find a partner who gets great satisfaction from results, and loves the discipline of making things happen on a day-to-day basis. This person is the glue that can hold the people, processes, systems, priorities, and strategy of a developing startup together.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Of course, entrepreneurs of any age can be young at heart and equally fearless, and still able to use their greater experience as an advantage. The realities of new product development may require living on ramen noodles and sleeping on a cot in the back room for a week. Satisfaction is not connected to money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Of course, your experience and gut instinct are relevant, but should never be used alone. Develop clear decision criteria to evaluate options. For most people these criteria would include relevant finances, experience, interest, and satisfaction. The result is lost time, and the window of opportunity may have passed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

The crowd gets the satisfaction of helping, with minimal risk, and no expectation of any high return. Of course, there are thousands of other companies that don’t achieve their minimum goal, requiring all contributions to be returned. Product pre-order model. Interest on debt model. angels crowdfunding entrepreneur investor'

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2015

The best part of being an entrepreneur is having the independence to make your own decisions, the flexibility for a better work/life balance, and personal satisfaction from driving change. But nobody said it would be easy. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Creating an innovative new business is guaranteed to test your skills, patience and determination, and you need to derive satisfaction from the journey, as well as the destination. Contrary to a popular myth, problem-solving is a talent that can be developed. It never ends.

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MARCH 2, 2015

My courses are rigorous and demanding. I am likewise pleased that my courses have not been rated "easy," earning an overall 2.9 I am proud that students who express satisfaction with my classes also note that they involve a significant time commitment. Challenging. out of 5 in both Helpfulness and Clarity. for Easiness.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Of course, these are great, but they don’t happen without enlightened leadership coming first. Leaders today must always project confidence and help others develop confidence, courage, and curiosity. I believe that business cultures are a function of people and leadership, more than programs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

This is a variation on the two previous ones, where investors get the satisfaction of helping, and immediately get a pre-determined reward or perk of value, such as a t-shirt, or other recognition, but no equity or finished product. Of course, this might also lead to investors, partners, and licensing opportunities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2019

Trying to develop that personal connection might not come easily for some of us, but in time it becomes natural. Of course, coaching only works with people that are coachable. Every entrepreneur and every manager should strive to develop that same insight, and I assure you, it will make you the leader you need to be.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Of course, the right ones cost may you equity, but a small percentage of a big business is worth far more to you than a large chunk of nothing. Develop and propose their own problem solutions. Of course, finding the right people is never easy, just like creating an innovative new solution is not easy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2012

This is a variation on the two previous ones, where investors get the satisfaction of helping, and immediately get a pre-determined reward or perk of value, such as a t-shirt, or other recognition, but no equity or finished product. Of course, this might also lead to investors, partners, and licensing opportunities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2016

The best part of being an entrepreneur is having the independence to make your own decisions, the flexibility for a better work/life balance, and personal satisfaction from driving change. But nobody said it would be easy. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2014

If you have a software development background like mine, Im sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2015

To compensate, every visionary entrepreneur needs to find a partner who gets great satisfaction from results, and loves the discipline of making things happen on a day-to-day basis. This person is the glue that can hold the people, processes, systems, priorities, and strategy of a developing startup together.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

And of course, product managers relay the abstract to the engineering teams to ensure the delivered product is, what it was planned to be. The term a gile development is defined, and the panel agreed unanimously that maintaining this mindset is necessary. He has over 10 years of experience designing and developing digital products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

Most entrepreneurs start from a base of one or two co-founders, and their vision and focus is on developing an innovative solution, rather than developing people. Measure and measure again, and be quick to course correct. Don’t confuse engagement or satisfaction surveys with culture surveys.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2016

If you have a software development background like mine, I’m sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 7, 2017

Of course, these are great, but they don’t happen without enlightened leadership coming first. Leaders today must always project confidence and help others develop confidence, courage, and curiosity. I believe that business cultures are a function of people and leadership, more than programs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2012

To bring real money and credibility to your company, and help you avoid costly mistakes in development and strategy, a first-class Advisory Board is a small investment. Once your company is past the startup stage, you do need a board of directors. What better candidates than your Advisory Board?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2016

Develop marketing content and communicate with trusted advisors and employees to make sure the right message can be delivered with clarity and integrity. Of course, an even more important driver of passion than success is happiness and satisfaction with the lifestyle.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2013

Of course, that leads to further isolation. Most people by nature get some satisfaction from team interaction, working toward the same goal. If you are not naturally charismatic, practice diligently to develop these skills of body language and verbal language. It doesn't have to be lonely at the top. Build a trusted team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2016

To compensate, every visionary entrepreneur needs to find a partner who gets great satisfaction from results, and loves the discipline of making things happen on a day-to-day basis. This person is the glue that can hold the people, processes, systems, priorities, and strategy of a developing startup together.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2011

To bring real money and credibility to your company, and help you avoid costly mistakes in development and strategy, a first-class Advisory Board is a small investment. Once your company is past the startup stage, you do need a board of directors. What better candidates than your Advisory Board?

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