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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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2023

It takes more than passion and a course on business basics. There is no standard course for this, but the answers are accessible online, if you know how to search, follow blogs, and interact with the relevant social media groups. Potential resources available to entrepreneurs are enormous, but often under-utilized.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2021

Unfortunately, these goals are often mutually exclusive, and focusing on the wrong ones won’t bring you that business success and satisfaction you crave. Of course, if you wait for the perfect time, you may never start. Do I rely on my own resources of seek investors? Timing is critical for every startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2021

Of course, that’s a personal decision, with many considerations and risks, but in my experience, the answer depends on some key mindset elements you can best assess. Able to marshal people and other support resources. Most people think success depends on first having that innovative and unique idea, but I would beg to differ.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Of course, drivers have to be backed up by some realities, like necessary resources, adequate skills, relentless determination, and a market of people interested in supporting your dream. Most people derive a great sense of satisfaction and accomplishment from developing relationships with people they trust and admire.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Some pundits argue that the E-Myth principle is now outdated, due to the instant access to information via the Internet, pervasive networking via social media, and courses on entrepreneurship at all levels of education. Hence most fail. Perhaps an innate business savvy is no longer a requirement for starting a successful business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2023

It’s also important to make sure they have the resources and training to do their job. In addition, this pushes you and your team to be the best that you can be and brings credibility and additional resources to your challenge. Providing real feedback, active listening, and empathy are crucial.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

With bad management you may even complete a project to satisfaction and on time only to find out that team members quit due to being burned out. Leadership is about creating a shared vision that the entire team buys into and making adjustments when team members persuade you that you’re off course. This is natural.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2023

That’s why I’m impressed with the classic book, “ All Dreams on Deck: Charting the Course for Your Life and Work ,” by Jeremy Cage. A business entity has to be created and real resources applied. The best entrepreneurs relish the challenges, and get great satisfaction from overcoming and learning from adversity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

Over time, I have collected a list of new business attributes that go beyond the initial idea or solution, which often are more critical to long-term success and satisfaction. Assemble the resources needed for the business. Solutions and inventions alone do not make a business. Don’t be afraid to pivot as you learn from the market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2020

It takes more than passion and a course on business basics. There is no standard course for this, but the answers are accessible online, if you know how to search, follow blogs, and interact with the relevant social media groups. Potential resources available to entrepreneurs are enormous, but often under-utilized.

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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. They often show little empathy for the negative impact this can have on capacity, resources, people, and profitability.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2022

Of course, you as the business leader have a key role in making all this happen. Occupational satisfaction. You as a business leader can greatly influence this factor by providing the resources and training to allow team members to do their job better, and appreciate the impact of their work. Social interactions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2022

Of course, such actions are equally applicable to businesses at any stage. These events are also opportunities to get a better handle on customer requirements, as well as measure your customer satisfaction and market trends. Other non-sponsored high-profile events can be used as powerful bonding opportunities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2021

That takes focus, resolve, resources, and problem solving to make it happen. Of course, you must hire the right people and really listen to them, but don’t expect them to do your job. Contrary to popular belief, there is no shortage of good ideas out there. Every investor I know hears the same ones over and over again.

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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. You will never seem to have the time, skills, or resources you need for that key acquisition, global expansion, or new product offering.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

While this approach appears to cost more on the surface, it often actually costs you less, when you consider the hidden costs of rework, poor customer satisfaction, employee management, and training required. Outsourcing vendors hire, train, and manage their own employees, using their own human resources, performance, and appraisal systems.

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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. They often show little empathy for the negative impact this can have on capacity, resources, people, and profitability.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

That’s why I’m impressed with the classic book, “ All Dreams on Deck: Charting the Course for Your Life and Work ,” by Jeremy Cage. A business entity has to be created and real resources applied. The best entrepreneurs relish the challenges, and get great satisfaction from overcoming and learning from adversity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Every successful new business requires focused work – targeting a specific opportunity, sizing the potential and resources required, and defining success. Of course, your experience and gut instinct are relevant, but should never be used alone. Yet, starting a business requires much more than a gut feeling of interest or desire.

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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 never have the time and resources for International expansion, acquisitions, venture capital investors, or going public. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2015

And mid-course corrections are not bad things. To quote a line from a favorite movie of mine � Excalibur � "Looking at the future is like looking at the cookie; you don't know really what it is like until you take a bite and then, of course, it's too late.". What are the technologies or things you think people ought to watch in 2016?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2015

It takes more than passion and a course on business basics. There is no standard course for this, but the answers are accessible online, if you know how to search, follow blogs, and interact with the relevant social media groups. Potential resources available to entrepreneurs are enormous, but often under-utilized.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Some pundits argue that the E-Myth principle is now outdated, due to the instant access to information via the Internet, pervasive networking via social media, and courses on entrepreneurship at all levels of education. Hence most fail. Perhaps an innate business savvy is no longer a requirement for starting a successful business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2018

It takes more than passion and a course on business basics. There is no standard course for this, but the answers are accessible online, if you know how to search, follow blogs, and interact with the relevant social media groups. Potential resources available to entrepreneurs are enormous, but often under-utilized.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2017

They skip from one to the next, providing expert guidance and money, getting their satisfaction (and reward) from the best of the best. Yet there are clear advantages to the parallel approach, if you have the moxy, resources, energy bandwidth, and the ability to multi-task effectively: A portfolio approach versus all eggs in one basket.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2016

Take an honest look at your motivation, resources and relationships before initiating a startup. Buffer your resource estimates by at least 20 percent. Of course, an even more important driver of passion than success is happiness and satisfaction with the lifestyle. Reality check your potential for building a business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2015

The pressures to maintain a profitable and steep growth curve, vs. reinvesting returns in new markets, are very frustrating to entrepreneurs who get their satisfaction from the flexibility of a startup in addressing new opportunities. Public expectation of growth every quarter. Control moves to external directors and the public.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2014

This indicates that lifestyle and satisfaction factors are usually more important than financial ones. Entrepreneurs love the continuous challenges of a startup, and the satisfaction of tackling them. Of course there are some disadvantages that every entrepreneur knows all too well: No regular paycheck. High level of excitement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2013

Some pundits argue that the E-Myth principle is now out-dated, due to the instant access to information via the Internet, pervasive networking via social media, and courses on entrepreneurship at all levels of education. Hence most fail. Perhaps an innate business savvy is no longer a requirement for starting a successful business.

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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 never have the time and resources for International expansion, acquisitions, venture capital investors, or going public. Marty Zwilling.

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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. They often show little empathy for the negative impact this can have on capacity, resources, people, and profitability.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2016

It takes more than passion and a course on business basics. There is no standard course for this, but the answers are accessible online, if you know how to search, follow blogs, and interact with the relevant social media groups. Potential resources available to entrepreneurs are enormous, but often under-utilized.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2013

They skip from one to the next, providing expert guidance and money, getting their satisfaction (and reward) from the best of the best. Yet there are clear advantages to the parallel approach, if you have the moxy, resources, energy bandwidth and the ability to multi-task effectively: A portfolio approach versus all eggs in one basket.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2014

Leading edge technology software and manufacturing require constant course corrections and iterative restarts. You cant isolate your customers from language idiosyncrasies and empowerment issues, per reduced customer satisfaction highlighted a while back by the Wall Street Journal. Dont let leading edge become bleeding edge.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

That’s why I’m impressed with a new book, “ All Dreams on Deck: Charting the Course for Your Life and Work ,” by Jeremy Cage. A business entity has to be created and real resources applied. The best entrepreneurs relish the challenges, and get great satisfaction from overcoming and learning from adversity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

As a result, there have also been many new resources and mentors popping up specifically aimed at women. Chances are you became an entrepreneur to attain some level of satisfaction in the first place, so remember, the fun is in the building, not just the destination. You suck all the fun out of your business.

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