Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2021

Of course, nothing beats learning from your mistakes , but that’s a painful and very time-consuming journey. Sharing through mentoring amplifies your satisfaction. Best of all, I find mentoring to be fun and fulfilling for both the giver and the receiver. Existing leaders use mentoring to find their replacement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2023

Of course, the end goal of leadership by influence is to get others to willingly engage and follow due to your knowledge, honesty, and heart, rather than because of your title. I recommend that you follow their example, and you too can experience the legacy and satisfaction of long-term success and satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2021

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

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Studies have shown that work productivity is related to a happier work culture , and customer satisfaction and loyalty are also dependent on the culture. The stigma of a clunky desktop today can easily lower worker engagement and satisfaction. Measure results in terms of customer satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2020

Personal satisfaction also ranked close behind, with 70 percent of respondents claiming it was a key advantage to running their own business. This indicates that lifestyle and satisfaction factors are often more important than financial ones. Job creation and innovation are the results, not the drivers. High level of excitement.

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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

MARCH 13, 2023

Here is my list of eight key strategies and tactics, gleaned from my own observations and feedback, which I believe will define you as a trusted leader, and will result in loyal teams to amplify your business initiatives into long-term success and satisfaction: Share your values and expectations to everyone.

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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. I want to tell them to just start anywhere, but I realize that most have no idea where anywhere is.

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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. Timing is critical for every startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Of course, this can be positive if you really need the help and experience in making key decisions. Pivoting early brings satisfaction and saves money and time, except when you don’t pivot due to investor evidence required, and the pain of explaining your mistakes. Many times friends and family have been broken by failed investments.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2021

That takes less time and gives everyone greater satisfaction. Of course, too much time and attention will be viewed as micro-management, can actually reduce productivity, and will limit your ability to deal with necessary process changes. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 01/15/2021.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 26, 2020

Of course, you could fit that definition. The effect of your action is magnified several-fold at the output stage of your business, leading to increased customer satisfaction and increased profits. You can be the bottleneck. Watch for, and stamp out, all those you identify as soon as you find them.

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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

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Measure and measure again, and be quick to course correct. Don’t confuse engagement or satisfaction surveys with culture surveys. Make sure you are hiring, training, and promoting the future leaders who possess what it takes to create the organization you want. Be sure to differentiate compensation and rewards correctly.

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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

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Today, customers are looking for real relationships, a memorable shopping experience, and satisfaction of a higher purpose. Of course, these new customer-facing strategies shouldn’t preclude you from focusing behind the scenes on reducing costs and broadening your product line to supersede competitors.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Of course it may be appropriate to explain your reasoning, or ask what part of the instruction is confusing. Will the requested outcome advance any of your goals – or just provide an increment of satisfaction? We’d never like to think so, or we wouldn’t do it in the first place. Will the output be used in a meaningful way?

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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. 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.

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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

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Make it clear that you always aim for progress, expect mistakes, and recognize that course-corrections or pivots are normal in business. You need both to create better outcomes and increase job satisfaction. Develop self-awareness of your triggers. Diversity and inclusion will get you started.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2020

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. Donation good-cause model. Interest on debt model.

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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. The best entrepreneurs relish the challenges, and get great satisfaction from overcoming and learning from adversity. Turning dreams into reality is never easy.

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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. Just as importantly, every leader deserves to feel success and satisfaction from their efforts, rather than continual stress and negative feedback from employees and customers alike.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2020

Set up training courses that highlight agility, and adopt agile working practices. Future growth and vitality requires equal attention to different metrics, including customer satisfaction, partnership growth, time to market tracks for new products, and internal change counts.

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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. I want to tell them to just start anywhere, but I realize that most have no idea where anywhere is.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Of course, skills in decision-making are not enough alone to make a great entrepreneurial leader. Work on the right characteristics, and think hard about those five key pivotal decisions that can make or break your satisfaction and your legacy. It’s more fun when you are the entrepreneur leader you want to be. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Of course, every lifestyle entrepreneur wants their business to be “successful,” but I find that the definition of success and the expectations along the way differs from that usually associated with what I call “growth startups.” This can be a key source of personal satisfaction, as well as the ultimate success factor and legacy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

But very quickly, it is becoming obvious to startups that the value and satisfaction exceeds the costs. Of course, investors still require a profitable business model, and the potential for high returns. Startups can use social responsibility as a competitive advantage.

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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

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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2022

Of course the work must be done well, but your way or the highway is not the right way. It will inspire loyalty, provide real satisfaction for work done, and become the basis for mentoring and performance reviews. This requires hiring people with the right skills, not the least expensive or friends and family.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2023

There is no guarantee, of course, that any combination or process will work, but thinking bigger about any new idea will certainly improve your odds and satisfaction. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 04/24/2023

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Measure and measure again, and be quick to course correct. Don’t confuse engagement or satisfaction surveys with culture surveys. Make sure you are hiring, training, and promoting the future leaders who possess what it takes to create the organization you want. Be sure to differentiate compensation and rewards correctly.

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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. 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

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. Define and focus on a mission to add value.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Of course, too many or obnoxious advertisements are especially harmful to a site’s credibility. Follow-up for customer satisfaction. If you can have an affiliate relationship with any recognized brand names, or any connection to publicly recognized experts, highlight these and provide links to their websites.

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