Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2022

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 Research Satisfaction Study 116

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

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. Don’t wait for competitors to force the need for better products, lower prices and better customer service.

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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. This is the pain of the endless stream of email, phone calls, and daily crises which prevent any really important accomplishments, like closing customers. There is just not enough time! Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

In this age of millennials and social media, individual workers are more driven by the greater good, work-life balance, and peer culture, than by organizational pressures. They are more sensitive to customer needs and see peer collaboration as the most effective decision process. Office jobs and communication technology have evolved.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2021

Others are really marketers out to make money fast, and believe that they can entice customers to any offering. External forces (competitors and customers). Or they get strong feedback from early adopters and outspoken customers who may not be representative of the real potential. But none have any lock on success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Practicing these will ensure greater productivity, less stress, more job satisfaction, and an improved overall sense of well-being. Consciously identify the tasks that come easy to you, such as email and texting, versus tougher tasks, maybe including customer complaints or confronting coworkers.

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Email Activity Product Social Media 96

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2020

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. Don’t wait for competitors to force the need for better products, lower prices and better customer service.

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Entrepreneur Training Resource Customer 125

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 15, 2014

At least wait until later, when you ready to scale, and have some “leverage” based on a proven business model, some real customers, and real revenue. Fundraising and investor governance are never-ending tasks, which will take real focus away from building the right product and finding real customers.

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Startup Entrepreneur Satisfaction Legalzoom 110

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Practicing these will ensure greater productivity, less stress, more job satisfaction, and an improved overall sense of well-being. Consciously identify the tasks that come easy to you, such as email and texting, versus tougher tasks, maybe including customer complaints or confronting coworkers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 9, 2019

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 Research Satisfaction Study 89

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2013

At least wait until later, when you ready to scale, and have some “leverage” based on a proven business model, some real customers, and real revenue. Fundraising and investor governance are never-ending tasks, which will take real focus away from building the right product and finding real customers.

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Startup Satisfaction Entrepreneur Legalzoom 105

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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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. You must convince dispassionate, objective customers that your value proposition is worthy of their cash. They relish learning.

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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 Research Satisfaction Study 56

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 Research Satisfaction Study 95

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2013

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.

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Startup Framework Competition Pricing 80

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2012

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.

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Competition Startup Pricing Framework 94

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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Startup Research Satisfaction Study 101

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. Don’t wait for competitors to force the need for better products, lower prices and better customer service.

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Entrepreneur Training Resource Satisfaction 109

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.

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Startup Competition Pricing Framework 86

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

The confidence, energy, passion and humor that are hallmarks of Jonathan became muted in the pressures of needing to show financial successes to match one’s enormous product vision and ambitions. The financial pressures of running a startup started to hit Jonathan. I saw this first hand. I saw it first hand.

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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. This is the pain of the endless stream of email, phone calls, and daily crises which prevent any really important accomplishments, like closing customers. There is just not enough time! Marty Zwilling.

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Product Entrepreneur Email Customer 108

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. This is the pain of the endless stream of email, phone calls, and daily crises which prevent any really important accomplishments, like closing customers. There is just not enough time! Marty Zwilling.

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Product Entrepreneur Email Customer 117

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 Research Satisfaction Study 88

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Practicing these will ensure greater productivity, less stress, more job satisfaction, and an improved overall sense of well-being. Consciously identify the tasks that come easy to you, such as email and texting, versus tougher tasks, maybe including customer complaints or confronting coworkers.

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Email Activity Product Social Media 100

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

It may sound counterintuitive, but the greater constraint investors place on their financial resources during a downturn, the better your chances of success, given (of course) that your adVenture is able to either secure funding or generate adequate revenue from customers, as described below in reason #7 – Customer Dollars Taste Great.

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Company Companies Startup Study 257

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.

Startup 88

Startup Research Satisfaction Study 88

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2016

These could include customer penetration, revenue growth, budget guidelines, and industry visibility. Team members begin by working with industry experts, advisors, and customers to validate assumptions, implementation plans, and financial parameters. It takes the right people to make a breakthrough happen. A dream is not enough.

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Startup Metrics Entrepreneur Resource 56

Berkonomics

AUGUST 18, 2022

Business unit managers are under lots of pressure to perform, and occasionally are tempted to step over the line finding ways to look better than reality reflects. Customer perspective: Ratings of customer satisfaction, statistics of customer retention, market share and even brand strength. A real win for all.

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Satisfaction Statistics Course .Net 156

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.

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Startup Press Los Angeles Entrepreneur 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2014

There’s a healthy balance between allowing a design team to dream up functional requirements, talk with customers, analyze competitors and for technical projects – research the latest cool-kid tools to play with. Knowing the way my mind works, in many people time pressure drives creative bursts.

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Software Startup Design Course 344

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

They keep projects on track and are often met with large amounts of pressure from multiple directions. You always want perfect data on what customers are doing. But what does the customer physically do at the theatre when they’re there and making a choice? Product management, can be extremely high pressure.

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Product Fandango Design Startup 87

Berkonomics

JULY 21, 2016

Business unit managers are under lots of pressure to perform, and occasionally are tempted to step over the line finding ways to look better than reality reflects. Customer perspective: Ratings of customer satisfaction, statistics of customer retention, market share and even brand strength. A real win for all.

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Satisfaction Statistics Course .Net 120

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. Savor the satisfaction of success, and watch the stress melt away.

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Tips Activity Startup Product 100

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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Course Software Review Customer Custom 88

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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Course Startup Software Review Customer 48

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2021

These people may include one of your business partners, an investor, a key vendor, or even one of your best customers. Do not allow tension to escalate, and your blood pressure and sanity will thank you for it. One thing is certain in any business – not everyone you have to deal with will be like you, or will like you (and vice versa).

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Satisfaction Tool Marketing Customer 174