Berkonomics

MAY 2, 2013

These include ensuring the continued health of the organization, setting the moral compass for your stakeholders, providing for succession by training and documenting, leading the effort in compliance of regulations and safety needs, and … elimination of all possible bottlenecks that impede the efficiency of your organization.

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Organization Demand Satisfaction Training 222

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 1, 2021

Don’t let it be just a conflict over graphic design. After-the-fact communication and documentation are also important, with a clearly defined resolution, follow-on action plan, and metrics to assess progress. Evaluate conflict win-lose versus win-win potential. Most business issues have some negative implications, as well as positive.

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Activity Organization Examples Satisfaction 145

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2012

Many writers have outlined the critical success factors for product companies, like sell every unit at a profit, patent the design, and continuous product improvement. Define and document the service process you sell. You can’t measure, scale, or patent a service process that is not clearly documented.

Satisfaction 91

Satisfaction Patents Outsource Development Services 91

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2017

Design a structure flexible enough for change. Be aware that communication is much more than just talking and documenting – it’s active listening, building relationships, and walking the walk as well as the talk. Part of employee satisfaction is having a well-understood purpose, but they also have to enjoy the execution.

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Satisfaction Customer Custom Startup 56

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. If you can’t quantify or document your service for repeatability and new employee training, you will kill yourself trying to grow the business. Capture your “secret sauce.”

Services 72

Services Startup Training Writing 72

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2015

The development stage normally begins with designing and prototyping a product or service, and creating the company legal entity. Business owners know that growth as a business versus a startup requires replicable and documented processes, a focus on marketing and sales, personnel management skills, and detailed planning.

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Entrepreneur Ideas Satisfaction Summary 109

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Many writers have outlined the critical success factors for product companies, like sell every unit at a profit, patent the design, and continuous product improvement. Define and document the service process you sell. You can’t measure, scale, or patent a service process that is not clearly documented.

Product 91

Product Services Satisfaction Patents 91

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. If you can’t quantify or document your service for repeatability and new employee training, you will kill yourself trying to grow the business. Capture your “secret sauce.”

Services 105

Services Startup Training Writing 105

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features. I used to always tell my development team, “you need to design a product that my dad could use. It was humbling.

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Organization Customer Custom Tips 280

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2016

The development stage normally begins with designing and prototyping a product or service, and creating the company legal entity. Business owners know that growth as a business versus a startup requires replicable and documented processes, a focus on marketing and sales, personnel management skills, and detailed planning.

Startup 66

Startup Ideas Satisfaction Entrepreneur 66

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. If you can’t quantify or document your service for repeatability and new employee training, you will kill yourself trying to grow the business. Capture your “secret sauce.”

Services 61

Services Startup Training Writing 61

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2014

The more conventional VP of Marketing role should cover branding, as well as other marketing advertising, design, public relations and customer service requirements. They should get their satisfaction from building their business, rather than building their title. Chief Risk Officer. Chief Diversity Officer. Marty Zwilling.

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CTO Hire Funding Cloud Computing CIO 100

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

The more conventional VP of Marketing role should cover branding, as well as other marketing advertising, design, public relations and customer service requirements. They should get their satisfaction from building their business, rather than building their title. Chief Risk Officer. Chief Diversity Officer. Marty Zwilling.

Startup 97

Startup Invest CTO Hire Cloud Computing 97

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The more conventional VP of Marketing role should cover branding, as well as other marketing advertising, design, public relations and customer service requirements. They should get their satisfaction from building their business, rather than building their title. Chief Risk Officer. Chief Diversity Officer. Marty Zwilling.

Startup 90

Startup CTO Hire Cloud Computing CIO 90

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

In 1995, while in high school, Seth wanted to start a business scanning paper documents for companies, but realized it was a non-starter when he learned that a scanner costs $4k. Leverage a feedback platform like Get Satisfaction or UserVoice. Why do you love speaking to students at universities?

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Startup Venture Capital Web Ideas 286

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Recently, I completed a new book, “ Clockwork: Design Your Business to Run Itself ,” by Mike Michalowicz, that really helped me pull my own thoughts and recommendations together for the beleaguered business owners I try to help. Make sure you focus your design efforts on this area, and delegate or cut time spent on all the rest.

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Resource Examples Design Entrepreneur 60