Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2023

The challenge is finding and using qualified affordable support organizations for each stage. Don’t waste your resources on the wrong ones. If you need help at this stage, look for a local university teaching online courses on entrepreneurship , or how to build a business plan. Early or embryonic stage. Funding or rollout stage.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 2, 2020

So, we’ve previously discussed why it is important for you to build consensus in an organization in most every major decision. If you’re secure in your position, you should never fear empowering direct reports to make decisions that fall within the resources allocated to them and within the budget agreed to with them.

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Report Organization Course Resource 156

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Waiting over a year to see results is too long, since your chance of mid-course correction is greatly reduced. Make sure you provide the resources necessary to hit the plan, including money, new hire authorizations, and above all, clear instruction and delegation form the top. It is all about execution. So, take heed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2021

An underutilized, but valuable resource, every startup should investigate is a formal or informal connection to your alma mater, including any local university. Every university has entrepreneurial courses or evening classes that can provide assistance on creating your initial plan. Start by contacting the law school organization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2022

In my experience as a business advisor, most organizations, large and small, struggle to keep up with the pace of change and competitive forces today. Hawkes, as the Founder of Growth River consulting, speaks from his experience helping to create high performance organizations around the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2012

The challenge is finding and using qualified affordable support organizations for each stage. Don’t waste your resources on the wrong ones. If you need help at this stage, look for a local university teaching night courses on entrepreneurship , or how to build a business plan. Early or embryonic stage. Funding or rollout stage.

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Resource Startup Organization Incubator 94

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Every organization has limited resources, especially money and time. So a leader who is able to focus upon the core needs of the organization, eliminating all the surrounding noise, is one who uses the limited resources available to best effect. The first quality in a great leader is to have laser focus.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 25, 2019

For most small and medium-sized businesses, there are lots of wheels spinning around the core that take up the attention and resources of management but add little or no value to the core of the business. These are new times, enhanced by our global ability to find resources anywhere on earth to complement the core of our business.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

The “doers” in your organization. You course correct. You motivate, cajole, reassign tasks, hire, fire and push the organization forward. You motivate, cajole, reassign tasks, hire, fire and push the organization forward. Marketing of course often feels the opposite. You set direction. Startup life.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 26, 2020

These include ensuring the continued health of the organization, setting the moral compass for your stakeholders, providing for succession by training and documenting, leading the effort in compliance of regulations and safety needs, and … elimination of all possible bottlenecks that impede the efficiency of your organization.

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Xconomy

JUNE 27, 2019

Degreed , which helps businesses upgrade the skills of their staffers through an online gateway to learning resources, announced Thursday it has raised $75 million to grow the service and expand internationally. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2023

It’s true that gifted visionaries bring many good things to an organization, including big picture ideas, seeing around corners, and a hunter mentality. They often show little empathy for the negative impact this can have on capacity, resources, people, and profitability. Yet they also come with a set of shortcomings.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2014

Moving from a company that had less resources (and presumably by the time their raising depleted resources) to a company with newfound resources can be telling. I have seen many companies raise their first $3 million and still act like a company that has no resources at all. You can do them all yourself, of course.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

Of course, every alternative has advantages and disadvantages, so any given one may not be available or attractive to you. These organizations, like Y Combinator , are very popular these days, and are often associated with major universities, community development organizations, or even large companies.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Of course, the response depends upon lots of variables, including whether the company is in a fund-raising mode (in which case the CEO may be spending up to 80% of his or her time on this alone). 15% might be spent networking with those in the CEO’s relationship circle, including the roundtable organizations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Unfortunately, most of us don’t have enough resources to bootstrap our own startups, so we are completely dependent on investors to help turn great ideas into great businesses. Of course, you need to show how your business will make money and provide an impressive investor return, but that should be only the beginning.

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Ideas Entrepreneur Equity Resource 140

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

[Email readers, continue here…] As an investor and board member for numerous companies, it is increasingly easy for me to quickly evaluate the quality of senior team members in an organization as I probe for strengths and weaknesses in the enterprise. Weeks ago in these posts, we explored strategic planning within the enterprise.

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Organization Course Resource Email 243

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The Ant of course “Because she showed lack of motivation and had a negative attitude.”. We build our companies with layers of management in the natural course of growth, often quoting that a manager should have no more than six direct reports, or that managers should be freed to do the important, high value work. Thank you, again!

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2021

As I “grew up” in business in big companies, including IBM, I always wondered why the real innovations seemed to come from startups, while we had more resources and more experience. Of course, you have to propose solutions, request funding, and marshal peer support for credibility. Balance the focus on productivity versus creativity.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 31, 2016

But these are all individual roads to Rio – which is the stated goal for the organization. Yes, if you are a bad leader of people, you will lose human resources and frustrate your attempt to reach to goal. And that’s not as easy as “simply” selling the company or achieving a financial goal over time.

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Resource Satisfaction Metrics Course 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2020

It’s true that gifted visionaries bring many good things to an organization, including big picture ideas, seeing around corners, and a hunter mentality. They often show little empathy for the negative impact this can have on capacity, resources, people, and profitability. Yet they also come with a set of shortcomings.

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Startup Ideas Organization Entrepreneur 131

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

She claims that, by reducing the number of issues to three, her team is better able to devote mental and physical resources to a solution than if she allowed her meetings to address a laundry list of issues faced by each of its members. The lesson is powerful but simple.

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Cloud Computing Resource Report Course 120

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2021

Of course, it helps to pick a business model that minimizes these costs, such as e-commerce to minimize initial staff and facilities, or professional services, where you are the initial product. Assess your resource potential before you start. Build your plan around resources you know.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2022

Great leaders strive to treat each person in their organization as a valued individual, rather than as a “human resource.” Strong leaders define and explain the organization’s purpose (why), priorities in delivering on that purpose, and demonstrate their own personal commitment to each.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2022

Further, based on results from the Sierra-Cedar HR Systems Survey , businesses that use data and tools in their people management, rather than traditional manual processes, see a 79% higher return than other organizations, suggesting the time is ripe for relying on data and analytics. Working on the wrong problem or assumption.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 28, 2018

The challenge is finding and using qualified affordable support organizations for each stage. Don’t waste your resources on the wrong ones. If you need help at this stage, look for a local university teaching online courses on entrepreneurship , or how to build a business plan. Early or embryonic stage. Funding or rollout stage.

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Funding Startup Organization Incubator 94

socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2020

By bringing data, processes and people together in a converged approach, the Alteryx APA Platform enables high-impact business outcomes and rapid upskilling of people across the organization. Every news station and source has been talking about the analytics of COVID, recovery and vaccine distribution.

Southern California 140

Southern California Technical Review Platform Organization 140

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

For the rest of us, the following suggestions will help you survive the valley of death: Accumulate some resources before you start. Of course, we all realize that this approach will take longer, and could jeopardize both roles if not managed effectively. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Set expectations accordingly.

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Startup Technical Review Equity Incubator 136

Berkonomics

MAY 17, 2012

It is a rule that early stage managers should find, protect and grow the core business, finding resources wherever possible to service that core in the form of variable expense, to be added to or shed at will as the company finds its niche and establishes a pattern of growth. But it proved impossible to shed overhead during downturns.

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Organization Course Resource Email 168

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2021

In today’s world, every organization needs to be in a constant state of change to stay competitive. Of course, talking and giving orders is no substitute for doing. If a project is off-schedule, the right people need to know, with recovery plans and additional resources required. Take a positive and active role in the execution.

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Training Examples Startup Social Media 173

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

So, we’ve discussed why it is important to build consensus in an organization in most every major decision. A manager secure in the position should never fear empowering direct reports to make decisions that fall within the resources allocated to them and within the budget agreed to with them.

Report 185

Report Organization Course Resource 185

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

Of course, every alternative has advantages and disadvantages, so any given one may not be available or attractive to you. These organizations, like Y Combinator , are very popular these days, and are often associated with major universities, community development organizations, or even large companies.

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Funding Startup Equity Examples 174

Berkonomics

MAY 14, 2015

Waiting over a year to see results is too long, since your chance of mid-course correction is greatly reduced. Make sure you provide the resources necessary to hit the plan, including money, new hire authorizations, and above all, clear instruction and delegation form the top. It is all about execution. So take heed.

Resource 120

Resource Guide Course Email 120

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2022

In my experience, your biggest challenge will be to rationalize the disparate input from your sales and marketing organizations, who each want more resources and more credit for ROI. Here there is no substitute for independent analysis from experts outside the organizations involved.

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Customer Custom Acquisition Technical Review 100

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2022

Of course, experience is the ultimate teacher of the differences between smart and wise. This world is now too complex for one entrepreneur to have all the resources and products needed to satisfy their customers. Wise leaders are authentic, timeless, and enduring. This flexible fortitude keeps them aligned with the long-term benefit.

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Entrepreneur Startup Ideas Course 117

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2013

The challenge is finding and using qualified affordable support organizations for each stage. Don’t waste your resources on the wrong ones. If you need help at this stage, look for a local university teaching online courses on entrepreneurship , or how to build a business plan. Early or embryonic stage. Funding or rollout stage.

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Entrepreneur Funding Incubator Startup 102

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2021

Through personal outreach, as well as industry organizations, they are constantly on the lookout for people smarter and more experienced in their domain. Of course, it’s good to have both, but don’t confuse the two. Networking requires sharing as well as taking. Even the best have mentors they really use.

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