Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Burnout occurs for many when your job demands are too many, the hours are too long, and the resources to handle them are too few. To survive, you must focus on recovery and resiliency, strive to achieve a balance between resources and demands, and set clear boundaries between work and non-work.

Coach

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2023

Project management requires that you see the big picture, understand who and what resources are required, have the ability the communicate and motivate people, and have the skills to track progress. Successful people are able to find enough personal time off to balance personal needs against the constant barrage of work demands.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2022

These are responding to the demands of this new world for collaboration, trust, and transparency. Establish vehicles, like a formal customer satisfaction program, to recognize and reward staff and customers for sharing what they can do to help you. Shared knowledge packaging (shareability).

Organization

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.

Outsource

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2022

Recognize limited resources. Too many business people let the daily challenges cause them to revert to emotional and autocratic demands, failure to communicate, and inability to coach and mentor team members. Demonstrate how one key objective addresses your long-term, as well as short-term goals.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2021

Gather your resources before scaling the business. You need the funding and support, but venture capitalists can be very demanding, and set high targets. It’s an amazing ride, and there is no satisfaction like creating something out of nothing. Mergers and acquisitions also require new skills.

Technical Review

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2019

Key resources. Investors will demand clear channel definitions. Then there is the follow-up to provide customer support and satisfaction. Every partner has their own set of activities and required resources. Every team and every individual should know their own cost contributions required to complete their activities.

Activity

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2020

What you don’t expect is to feel out of control , or to always be fighting the many demands for your time. You will never seem to have the time, skills, or resources you need for that key acquisition, global expansion, or new product offering.

Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2015

These are responding to the demands of this new world for collaboration, trust, and transparency. Establish vehicles, like a formal customer satisfaction program, to recognize and reward staff and customers for sharing what they can do to help you. Shared knowledge packaging (shareability).

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2014

These are responding to the demands of this new world for collaboration, trust, and transparency. Establish vehicles, like a formal customer satisfaction program, to recognize and reward staff and customers for sharing what they can do to help you. Shared knowledge packaging (shareability).

Organization

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

They had the huge financial and technical resources of a large company, and they had the right dreams, but they also had a set of challenges that most entrepreneurs don’t have to deal with: Team members are not selected based on entrepreneurial acumen. Every such deal was an exception. A single-minded focus and commitment is hard to maintain.

IBM

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Too many entrepreneurs develop a new product without regard to market demand, then build an entire strategy based on creating a need, rather than acting on an existing market need. Only people and organizations with their own big resources will survive. Investors characterize this approach as a “solution looking for a problem.”

Technology

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. Beware of the allure and demands of early adopters. Solutions and inventions alone do not make a business.

Tips

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Too many entrepreneurs develop a new product without regard to market demand, then build an entire strategy based on creating a need, rather than acting on an existing market need. Only people and organizations with their own big resources will survive. Investors characterize this approach as a “solution looking for a problem.”

Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Focus on the ultimate customer, and find a way to improve satisfaction, grow revenue, or cut costs. You can’t please everyone all the time, so don’t kill yourself trying to satisfy a bad boss or an overly demanding customer. If you find yourself playing it safe, or not willing to take a risk, it’s time to think again.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2017

Key resources. Investors will demand clear channel definitions. Then there is the follow-up to provide customer support and satisfaction. Every partner has their own set of activities and required resources. Every team and every individual should know their own cost contributions required to complete their activities.

Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2016

Moonshots are simply efforts that demand breakthroughs that are not possible within business-as-usual practices. It’s time for the executive team and advisory board to commit the necessary funds and people resources to complete the plan. In addition, you will like the exhilaration and satisfaction that comes with a successful moonshot.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2023

Startups have limited resources, so the founders have to enjoy trying things, and learning from their mistakes. Don’t demand or expect immediate gratification. But if you are looking for investors, team members, and demanding customers, it helps to understand what their biases might be in committing to and helping the ideal partner.

Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

These are responding to the demands of this new world for collaboration, trust, and transparency. Establish vehicles, like a formal customer satisfaction program, to recognize and reward staff and customers for sharing what they can do to help you. Shared knowledge packaging (shareability).

Organization

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2019

These are responding to the demands of this new world for collaboration, trust, and transparency. Establish vehicles, like a formal customer satisfaction program, to recognize and reward staff and customers for sharing what they can do to help you. Shared knowledge packaging (shareability).

Organization

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2021

That takes focus, resolve, resources, and problem solving to make it happen. Starting a new business does put you in control, but you will face a harrowing new set of demands from partners, investors, suppliers, and customers. Contrary to popular belief, there is no shortage of good ideas out there.

Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

You will learn to recognize that some friends and colleagues are always downers, and get their satisfaction from snuffing out your aspirations through negative thinking. A first step is empowering yourself to achieve success and feel satisfaction from doing your job. Don’t let anyone kill your dreams and passion.

Startup

socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2015

You may have obstacles you were unprepared for, but these opportunities to learn and grow help you gain the experience and resiliency needed to run a successful company in a demanding industry. His role is to ensure KeyInfo retains its technological leadership and remains focused on client satisfaction. When we returned to the U.S.

San Fernando

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

If your product is really new and disruptive, make sure you have supply to meet the demand at rollout, and a patent to prevent others from jumping in quickly. I always recommend that a startup create an advisory board of two or three outside experts, who have connections to even more resources. Marty Zwilling.

Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2020

If your product is really new and disruptive, make sure you have supply to meet the demand at rollout, and a patent to prevent others from jumping in quickly. I always recommend that a startup create an advisory board of two or three outside experts, who have connections to even more resources. Rely on a verbal agreement in business.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

You get the personal satisfaction of making something out of almost nothing. As your services gain demand, your time becomes more valuable and you can charge more. When you don't accept capital from someone else, you aren't beholden to anyone else's input. You get to call the shots. Dick's Sporting Goods was started with $300.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2022

If your product is really new and disruptive, make sure you have supply to meet the demand at rollout, and a patent to prevent others from jumping in quickly. I always recommend that a startup create an advisory board of two or three outside experts, who have connections to even more resources. Rely on a verbal agreement in business.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2015

If your product is really new and disruptive, make sure you have supply to meet the demand at rollout, and a patent to prevent others from jumping in quickly. I always recommend that a startup create an advisory board of two or three outside experts, who have connections to even more resources. Rely on a verbal agreement in business.

Technical Review

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2018

If your product is really new and disruptive, make sure you have supply to meet the demand at rollout, and a patent to prevent others from jumping in quickly. I always recommend that a startup create an advisory board of two or three outside experts, who have connections to even more resources. Rely on a verbal agreement in business.

Technical Review