Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2022

If you are like most entrepreneurs I know, there just aren’t enough hours in a day to get all your own work done, as well as run the many one-hour meetings each team member seems to demand for decisions and mentoring. Team members need your critique of their work to learn, but attacking the person is never productive.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Most simply defined , an entrepreneur is a person who identifies a need and starts a business to fill that void. But others will argue that a “true” entrepreneur must come up with an innovative new product or service and then operates their business to sell and profit from that innovation. What makes someone an entrepreneur?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2023

In my experience in large businesses as well as years of advising startups, I see far too much focus on product skills, and too little on people and process skills. They demand interactive relationships with you, and depend on the relationships you have with their friends. Opening relationships and creating opportunities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2022

The Art and Science of Good Decisions ,” summarizes good decision making as: Identifying all reasonable actions. This is a problem with many product-based companies. Their goal is to create profitable products, but too often they don’t research what their customers really want, and what they are willing to pay.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2015

Today’s customers demand more than a good product; they expect a great customer experience. People love Apple’s whole customer experience, and willingly pay a premium for the product. People love Apple’s whole customer experience, and willingly pay a premium for the product. Experience using the product is only one stage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2015

If you are like most entrepreneurs I know, there just aren’t enough hours in a day to get all your own work done, as well as run the many one-hour meetings each team member seems to demand for decisions and mentoring. Team members need your critique of their work to learn, but attacking the person is never productive.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 5, 2020

So, it is important for the entrepreneur to identify, address and mitigate each of these in order to increase valuation and decrease the risk of ultimate loss of the business. First: Product risk. . Is the product or service possible to produce at all, let alone economically enough to. compete in the marketplace?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2022

Ask the right questions to identify the innate personality traits in potential new hires, regardless of level and function, to bring on board those most likely to succeed in and shape your organization. By adding to perceived value, a company attracts more sophisticated and demanding customers less expensively and more quickly.

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Berkonomics

MAY 2, 2013

The definition of a bottleneck in your business is one that constricts the flow of work from one area to another in the flow of product or service through your organization. A bottleneck in your organization’s flow of product or service can happen, shift, or disappear quickly. Email readers, continue here.]

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2022

The canvas is a visual chart with elements describing your value proposition, structure, finances, and customers, to help companies identify and align business activities. Think of value propositions as bundles of services or products that create benefits (value) for customers. Investors will demand clear channel definitions.

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socalTECH

MAY 28, 2015

Los Angeles-based HelloTech (www.hellotech.com) wants to be the service that you refer all of your friends and family to, instead--by offering up low cost, on-demand, in-home technical support. First and foremost, it's an on-demand, in -home technical support service. How does HelloTech work? This pain point is pretty common.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 5, 2015

Watch this 93-second clip and see if you can identify the pricing pitfall addressed in this humorous snippet. A recurring entrepreneurial challenge is to determine the optimal price of a new product, especially absent a directly competitive alternative. Anecdotally, it seems that SaaS products often behave as Giffen goods.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2023

For example, witness the current creation of the space tourism industry, vaccines to control new viruses, or simply providing a free product to the needy for every product sold. Reframing means re-conceptualizing a problem by look at it from a different perspective and identifying alternative solutions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2022

Equally often, I see startups who are on the road to implementing an idea, but haven’t figured out what problem it solves – the business plan waxes on eloquently for 20 pages about how great this product and technology is, but never gets around to defining the problem (investors call this the “solution looking for a problem” syndrome).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2022

Visionary entrepreneurs tend to identify and map strategic new opportunities, rather than grow existing current ones, based on market insights emerging technology. Both risks and opportunities in this area can arise from many aspects of your startup, before and after product development. Embrace the risk of standing in your own line.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Green, which supports my view, and is full of practical advice for aspiring entrepreneurs, including easy ways to identify sure-bet opportunities, most not requiring any invention, before you finalize your innovative business idea. Fields) are examples of what were once pedestrian products that have driven successful new businesses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2022

Then they are surprised to see productivity and creativity take a big dip. She also identifies the typical myths against using this approach, and describes how to overcome each one: “Entrepreneurs are born, not made.” Again, you get what you demand and reward. The reality is that all entrepreneurial skills are learnable skills.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 14, 2019

So, it is important for you to identify, address and mitigate each of these in order to increase valuation and decrease the risk of ultimate loss of the business. First: Product risk. . Is the product or service possible to produce at all, let alone economically enough to compete in the marketplace? Second: Market risk. .

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Outsource Development Ideas Resource Patents 120

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 29, 2019

If you are like most entrepreneurs I know, there just aren’t enough hours in a day to get all your own work done, as well as run the many one-hour meetings each team member seems to demand for decisions and mentoring. Team members need your critique of their work to learn, but attacking the person is never productive.

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Mentor Technical Review Coach Slides 124

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Yet these relationships require special efforts on both sides to be productive and satisfying. Identify strengths and weaknesses early. The most common challenges involve time and accessibility demands on either side, or the level of help expected. Mentoring is not as simple as one person giving the other all the right answers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2023

I believe that a fully engaged team is the key to both productivity and agility in the face of change. Start by getting people comfortable with what they don’t know, showing them you are open to new ideas, and don’t demand perfection in all deliverables. Show humility by being honest about mistakes.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 17, 2020

Under the agreement, Impact will identify and develop film ideas in four specific genres over the next year that they will then bring to Netflix to produce and distribute, through a global submission process. The companies did not disclose the financial terms of the agreement. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Ask the right questions to identify the innate personality traits in potential new hires, regardless of level and function, to bring on board those most likely to succeed in and shape your organization. By adding to perceived value, a company attracts more sophisticated and demanding customers less expensively and more quickly.

Organization 128

Organization Startup Pricing Customer 128

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

In my experience in large businesses as well as years of advising startups, I see far too much focus on product skills, and too little on people and process skills. They demand interactive relationships with you, and depend on the relationships you have with their friends. Opening relationships and creating opportunities.

Entrepreneur 134

Entrepreneur Startup Sales Customer 134

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2023

Leading change is even harder, trying to balance the demands of the customers against the needs and expectations of employees. You can change products and services, but service and quality to customers must endure. But you have to change to survive and thrive. Think critically and creatively on tough choices.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2022

Consider the following principles and how they apply to you as you do your own reality check: Identify your passion first, and list alternatives to get there. For an inventor , the product is everything, and managing cash flow in a business may be the least satisfying part. You can’t really succeed in life if you are not happy.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Dealing with their precocious students and demanding parents can cause a single day to be filled with poignant highs and unnerving lows. I am often asked, "John, how do I identify a great startup opportunity?" I am often asked, "John, how do I identify a great startup opportunity?" Passionate Problems. Higher Purpose.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2013

It’s what I call “ the evangelical phase ” of a company in which you’re out trying to persuade customers that a product you’ve designed is going to meet their needs better than other solutions on the market. Invariably your first efforts at product won’t quite hit the mark – and this is OK. question in sales.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 4, 2013

Their deep understanding of their customers, an uncompromising drive to create a quality product and the courage to ignore the music industry's formulaic approach to producing hits resulted in the creation one of the top selling non-compilation albums of all time. This audience feedback allowed the band to iteratively modify their creation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2022

Design a product or service that you can sell. Sure, you may need to give the product away for free to get traction, but assume you will have to sell something someday to get profitable and stay alive. When their deep pockets went empty, Facebook stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 15, 2012

So it is important for the entrepreneur to identify, address and mitigate each of these in order to increase valuation and decrease the risk of ultimate loss of the business. First: Product risk. Is the product or service possible to produce at all, let alone economically enough to compete in the marketplace?

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Outsource Development Ideas Resource Patents 200

socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2019

If you think out the recent incident at Gatwick due to a huge disruption by a drone, were able to identify and mitigate drones operating in that airspace. We allow you to immediately know when a drone is in an airspace, gain situational awareness, identify whether it is friend or foe, why it is in that airspace.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2019

The canvas is a visual chart with elements describing your value proposition, structure, finances, and customers, to help companies identify and align business activities. Think of value propositions as bundles of services or products that create benefits (value) for customers. Investors will demand clear channel definitions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

I see entrepreneurs every day who are trying to change the world with a new idea, and startups that are trying to survive their hyper-growth phase by changing processes to meet demand. The last thing you need in a startup is a false start, where you can’t deliver on a product change deadline, or a new marketing channel.

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Southern California Edison Blog

APRIL 21, 2020

Network speeds are closely tied to an organization’s ability to stay productive and remain competitive and profitable at all times. Also, the increased frequency of video conferencing places high bandwidth demands on networks for extended periods of time. Wavelength Services – high speeds and secure data transfer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

The Art and Science of Good Decisions ,” summarizes good decision making as: Identifying all reasonable actions. This is a problem with many product-based companies. Their goal is to create profitable products, but too often they don’t research what their customers really want, and what they are willing to pay.

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Entrepreneur Ideas Research Demand 92

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2018

As a business advisor, one of the things I see most often as a drag to productivity and growth is employees who, despite their best efforts, can’t change things that they know are hurting the company. I’ve spent many hours identifying the causes of this dichotomy, and working on specific steps to fix it.

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