Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2021

Every startup founder feels the pressure of the thousands of things that need to get done, all seemingly at the same time. Among other things, she identified ten general productivity principles to give you a competitive edge, which I have adapted here for entrepreneurs: Control yourself well, but don’t try to control others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Every entrepreneur and most professionals wish there were more hours in a day to get their work done. Practicing these will ensure greater productivity, less stress, more job satisfaction, and an improved overall sense of well-being. I concur, based on my own extended career in business and mentoring entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Every entrepreneur and most professionals wish there were more hours in a day to get their work done. Practicing these will ensure greater productivity, less stress, more job satisfaction, and an improved overall sense of well-being. I concur, based on my own extended career in business and mentoring entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2012

Every startup founder feels the pressure of the thousands of things that need to get done, all seemingly at the same time. Among other things, she added ten general productivity principles to give you a competitive edge, which I have adapted here for entrepreneurs: Control yourself well, but don’t try to control others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Anyone who works with entrepreneurs will tell you that all are different. Others are really marketers out to make money fast, and believe that they can entice customers to any offering. The Opportunist is the speculative part of the entrepreneur in all of us. Of course, discovering your entrepreneur type is only the beginning.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 9, 2012

Pressure Helps You Break Through Your Breakdowns. "Mickey In Pressure , I note how singer/songwriter Jim Croce wrote several top ten songs immediately after learning that his wife was pregnant. As Seth Epstein makes clear in this talk , entrepreneurs constantly experience breakdowns, followed by breakthroughs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2013

Eighty percent of new entrepreneurs used this approach, with only six percent using investor funding. The remaining entrepreneurs borrowed from family and friends, or acquired a loan. If you chose the entrepreneur lifestyle to be your own boss, don’t accept money from anyone. Entrepreneurs need to start small and pivot quickly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Customers and peers still expect follow-up and timeliness. Businesses grow based on customers served. Successful business people find a way to escape the pressures of work on a regular basis – through family, a hobby, sports, or other recreation. Customers and peers want to follow leaders, not processes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Every entrepreneur I know feels the pressure of the thousands of things that need to get done, all seemingly at the same time. These are the endless stream of email, phone calls, and daily crises which prevent really important accomplishments, like closing customers. There is just not enough time! Rest makes you more productive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2014

Every new entrepreneur has to initiate the right actions to be perceived as a leader in their chosen business domain by their team and by their customers, or the road to success and satisfaction will be lost along the way. No entrepreneur can build a business alone. Constantly strengthening your network of relationships.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2013

As the business economy rebounds, many entrepreneurs are thinking that life will soon get easier, and their opportunity can only grow. You are never the only alternative, hopefully just the best, in price, utility, and satisfaction. At some level of function, availability, and price performance, customers jump ship away from you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2013

Every startup founder feels the pressure of the thousands of things that need to get done, all seemingly at the same time. Among other things, she identified ten general productivity principles to give you a competitive edge, which I have adapted here for entrepreneurs: Control yourself well, but don’t try to control others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2014

Whether yours is terrible or great, that same tone flows out to your customers, and regulates your productivity inside. According to many studies and observations, group pressure entices us to rethink our own opinions, and can even change our actual perceptions. Our satisfaction is strongly driven by this role set.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2012

As the business economy rebounds, many entrepreneurs are thinking that life will soon get easier, and their opportunity can only grow. You are never the only alternative, hopefully just the best, in price, utility, and satisfaction. At some level of function, availability, and price performance, customers jump ship away from you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2016

In reality, that’s the definition of a successful startup these days, so every aspiring entrepreneur should take note, as well as every existing corporate executive. I like their seven step approach, which I have paraphrased here for entrepreneurs as follows: Pull together a great multi-functional team. A dream is not enough.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

There has recently been a common theme among the entrepreneurs I have interviewed and the conferences I have attended: despite the relatively weak state of the world economy, now is a great time to create a high-tech startup. As noted in Now Is Never Too Early , successful entrepreneurs are not inclined to wait. Hard Knocks U. “You

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 9, 2017

Whether yours is terrible or great, that same tone flows out to your customers, and regulates your productivity inside. According to many studies and observations, group pressure entices us to rethink our own opinions, and can even change our actual perceptions. Our satisfaction is strongly driven by this role set.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

You are never the only alternative, hopefully just the best, in price, utility, and satisfaction. At some level of function, availability, and price performance, customers jump ship away from you. Bargaining power of customers. Small differentials and more competitors give customers higher leverage. It’s a painful end.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Every entrepreneur and most professionals wish there were more hours in a day to get their work done. Practicing these will ensure greater productivity, less stress, more job satisfaction, and an improved overall sense of well-being. I concur, based on my own extended career in business and mentoring entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Whether yours is terrible or great, that same tone flows out to your customers, and regulates your productivity inside. According to many studies and observations, group pressure entices us to rethink our own opinions, and can even change our actual perceptions. Our satisfaction is strongly driven by this role set.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In a world where more and more people are realizing that experiences, not stuff, can lead to more happiness and satisfaction with their life, the problem is�there are still lots of experiences you just can't have without stuff. That creates such incredible, unnatural pressure, it's almost a self-inflicted death wound. It's critical.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2010

Whether yours is terrible or great, that same tone flows out to your customers, and regulates your productivity inside. According to many studies and observations, group pressure entices us to rethink our own opinions, and can even change our actual perceptions. Our satisfaction is strongly driven by this role set.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2011

This is a hard and painful process for everyone, but it’s usually better than the alternative of liquidating or losing the assets and antagonizing many customers. The challenge was to locate current staff with enough product/customer knowledge but with enough drive and desire and willingness to make the required changes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2011

Whether yours is terrible or great, that same tone flows out to your customers, and regulates your productivity inside. According to many studies and observations, group pressure entices us to rethink our own opinions, and can even change our actual perceptions. Our satisfaction is strongly driven by this role set.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

This is a hard and painful process for everyone, but it’s usually better than the alternative of liquidating or losing the assets and antagonizing many customers. The challenge was to locate current staff with enough product/customer knowledge but with enough drive and desire to make the required changes.

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