Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2020

Set up training courses that highlight agility, and adopt agile working practices. The passion and commitment that characterizes startups inevitably fades, particularly if things aren’t always going well. Concern about what the future might hold often results in hidden waves of passive resistance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2023

Of course, starting and running your own business comes with financial and personal risks, so I always recommend that you do your homework first, and follow some tried and proven strategies to improve your odds of success. These days, you can’t start and run a business alone. Define key metrics to measure progress and success.

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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. To do it well requires a focus on several key activities and practices, including the following: Maintain a positive attitude, since startup problems are normal.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 1, 2021

Of course, any highly emotional and unmanaged conflict can certainly lead to chaos and a dysfunctional organization. To get you started on the right foot, here are the key principles that I see most often working: Make the resolution a part of a larger process. Don’t let it be just a conflict over graphic design.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2021

Proof of any business model starts with a finished product or solution, sold to a new customer for full price, with high satisfaction for the value received. Of course, that has be a repeatable event, with enough revenue to sustain the business. Start selling it before you build it. Marketing is everything these days.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2016

It seems like every entrepreneur I meet these days is quick to proclaim themselves a visionary, expecting that will give more credibility to their startup idea, and improve their odds with investors. In reality, I’m one of the majority of investors who believe that startup success is more about the execution than the idea.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2019

Image via Pixabay After a frustrating meeting with a small business client recently who didn’t “have time” for social media, I was surprised to find evidence on the Internet that up to one quarter of small business owners are still hesitant to invest time, money, and effort into a social media strategy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2015

Proof of any business model starts with a finished product or solution, sold to a new customer for full price, with high satisfaction for the value received. Of course, that has be a repeatable event, with enough revenue to sustain the business. Start selling it before you build it. Marketing is everything these days.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2015

It seems like every entrepreneur I meet these days is quick to proclaim themselves a visionary, expecting that will give more credibility to their startup idea, and improve their odds with investors. In reality, I’m one of the majority of investors who believe that startup success is more about the execution than the idea.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Every new business dreams of growing from a startup to a global market leader in a few years, like Amazon.com, but that goal is elusive. In my view, every startup in today’s world would do well to adopt a management system with the same key objectives: Start with a customer-obsessed business model.

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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. You don’t have enough control over your time, investors, the market, or your startup. But nobody said it would be easy. It’s very frustrating.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2018

We have all heard how messages change, when passed up or down the line, even without any politics or personal agendas. Market changes happen rapidly and regularly these days, requiring a realignment of skills, processes, and approaches to keep up. You need to hear first-hand what is working well, and what is not delighting customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Of course, skills in decision-making are not enough alone to make a great entrepreneurial leader. Proactively sets metrics and track goals. Work on the right characteristics, and think hard about those five key pivotal decisions that can make or break your satisfaction and your legacy. Willing to question assumptions and adapt.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

I have been watching ProductPlan for several years, as the founders are both friends and pillars of the Santa Barbara Startup Community. Greathouse: We’ve known each other for a long time but let’s start with the basics for my readers. How did you and your co-founder, Greg Goodman, get started? Had you worked together before?

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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. You don’t have enough control over your time, investors, the market, or your startup. But nobody said it would be easy. It’s very frustrating.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2015

Of course, skills in decision-making are not enough alone to make a great entrepreneurial leader. Proactively sets metrics and track goals. Work on the right characteristics, and think hard about those five key pivotal decisions that can make or break your satisfaction and your legacy. Willing to question assumptions and adapt.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2018

Of course, skills in decision-making are not enough alone to make a great entrepreneurial leader. Proactively sets metrics and track goals. Work on the right characteristics, and think hard about those five key pivotal decisions that can make or break your satisfaction and your legacy. Willing to question assumptions and adapt.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2014

Of course, skills in decision-making are not enough alone to make a great entrepreneurial leader. Proactively sets metrics and track goals. Work on the right characteristics, and think hard about those five key pivotal decisions that can make or break your satisfaction and your legacy. Willing to question assumptions and adapt.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Something from a motivational panel, discussing Biz Dev strategies or maybe how to launch a lean start up. And of course, product managers relay the abstract to the engineering teams to ensure the delivered product is, what it was planned to be. Her description starts off with a standup meeting with her product team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In any business, accountability ideally starts at the top. Of course, at all levels of an organization or business, there are opportunities for accountability that can make or break your career or your leadership perception in the eyes of others. Setting your own metrics, and measuring yourself , will facilitate accountability.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2022

Of course, my years of experience in business gives me insights that you might not yet have, but I’ve found that the major value from coaching comes from getting you into the right mindset. Open up to growth and refuse to prejudge yourself. Believe me, having you start in the right mindset will be more productive for both of us.

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