Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2022

Second, in your search for partners, you need to be aware of the many considerations that can make the difference between success and failure in the business, as well as your satisfaction with the relationship. Investors routinely decline to fund co-founders who are siblings, or in a romantic relationship.

Startup 140

Startup Satisfaction Writing Entrepreneur 140

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2020

Funding and rollout stage. 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. Business owners get their satisfaction from happy customers and happy stakeholders.

Ideas 127

Ideas Entrepreneur Satisfaction Summary 127

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

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.

Startup 174

Startup Training Services Writing 174

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The result is fewer and fewer new ideas are volunteered by prospective leaders and key team members, and the business suffers from poor customer satisfaction or loss of market share. Here I recommend that you narrow your focus, if possible, and document specifics of impact, cost, and value.

Ideas 116

Ideas Netflix Resource Customer 116

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2015

As a startup investor, I often see business proposals looking for funding that really look like expensive hobbies looking for donations. I still see entrepreneurs who spend money and time for months on a new business idea without any separation of personal and business funds, and any formal accounting system for their new business.

Outsource Development 99

Outsource Development Startup Competition Ideas 99

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2020

As a side benefit, Amazon has ranked as #1 for customer satisfaction for many years in a row. It turns out that there is some real scientific evidence that replacing PowerPoint slides with " briefing documents " is a meeting time saver. He repeatedly refers to what he calls " divinely discontented " customers.

Slides 137

Slides Customer Custom Satisfaction 137

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2014

This is a fancy title for a personnel manager in a large corporation who keeps track of all the hiring and firing, and has a staff to build job descriptions and personnel policy documents. They should get their satisfaction from building their business, rather than building their title. c-level entrepreneur funding startup titles'

CTO Hire 100

CTO Hire Funding Cloud Computing CIO 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2020

This required ability is aided by some supportive personal attributes, such as confidence, initiative, problem solving, and determination, but the basic learning principles must include the following: Satisfaction will come from learning something new every day. This is a key part of enjoying the journey, as well as the destination.

Social Media 127

Social Media Startup Education Entrepreneur 127

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2016

As a startup investor, I often see business proposals looking for funding that really look like expensive hobbies looking for donations. I still see entrepreneurs who spend money and time for months on a new business idea without any separation of personal and business funds, and any formal accounting system for their new business.

Ideas 62

Ideas Outsource Development Startup Competition 62

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2015

The best part of being an entrepreneur is having the independence to make your own decisions, the flexibility for a better work/life balance, and personal satisfaction from driving change. Even when orders are clearly on the upswing, you need more funding to cover inventory and lagging accounts receivable. Marty Zwilling.

Entrepreneur 111

Entrepreneur Search Engine Optimization Satisfaction Social Media 111

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2015

Funding and rollout stage. 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. Business owners get their satisfaction from happy customers and happy stakeholders.

Entrepreneur 109

Entrepreneur Ideas Satisfaction Summary 109

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2019

Second, in your search for partners, you need to be aware of the many considerations that can make the difference between success and failure in the business, as well as your satisfaction with the relationship. Investors routinely decline to fund co-founders who are siblings, or in a romantic relationship.

Startup 70

Startup Satisfaction Writing Entrepreneur 70

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2013

CapLinked also netted in new customers such as Thomson Reuters, Sun Capital, and Equity Partners, NextView Ventures and crowd-funding service AI Verified which will take advantage of its iPad compatibility, bulk uploading, and reporting tools. According to Eric M. The innovation is in line with the industry trends.

Mobile 91

Mobile Report Pricing Tool 91

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.

Services 72

Services Startup Training Writing 72

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2016

The best part of being an entrepreneur is having the independence to make your own decisions, the flexibility for a better work/life balance, and personal satisfaction from driving change. Even when orders are clearly on the upswing, you need more funding to cover inventory and lagging accounts receivable. Marty Zwilling.

Search Engine Optimization 55

Search Engine Optimization Satisfaction Entrepreneur Social Media 55

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2016

Funding and rollout stage. 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. Business owners get their satisfaction from happy customers and happy stakeholders.

Startup 66

Startup Ideas Satisfaction Entrepreneur 66

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2015

This required ability is aided by some supportive personal attributes, such as confidence, initiative, problem solving, and determination, but the basic learning principles must include the following: Satisfaction will come from learning something new every day. This is a key part of enjoying the journey, as well as the destination.

Entrepreneur 102

Entrepreneur Social Media Startup Education 102

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.

Services 105

Services Startup Training Writing 105

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2017

Second, in your search for partners, you need to be aware of the many considerations that can make the difference between success and failure in the business, as well as your satisfaction with the relationship. Investors routinely decline to fund co-founders who are siblings, or in a romantic relationship. “We

Startup 59

Startup Satisfaction Entrepreneur Writing 59

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

You have to persuade the right partners to join and build the solution, the right investors to fund it and the right customers to buy it. They want to fund and work with people who are willing and able to move an idea into the execution phase. Good marketing is just a subset of these efforts and skills.

Ideas 56

Ideas Study Entrepreneur Customer 56

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Second, in your search for partners, you need to be aware of the many considerations that can make the difference between success and failure in the business, as well as your satisfaction with the relationship. Investors routinely decline to fund co-founders who are siblings, or in a romantic relationship. “We

Startup 96

Startup Entrepreneur Satisfaction Writing 96

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.

Services 61

Services Startup Training Writing 61

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2016

This required ability is aided by some supportive personal attributes, such as confidence, initiative, problem solving, and determination, but the basic learning principles must include the following: Satisfaction will come from learning something new every day. This is a key part of enjoying the journey, as well as the destination.

Entrepreneur 61

Entrepreneur Social Media Startup Education 61

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Second, in your search for partners, you need to be aware of the many considerations that can make the difference between success and failure in the business, as well as your satisfaction with the relationship. Investors routinely decline to fund co-founders who are siblings, or in a romantic relationship. “We

Startup 97

Startup Satisfaction Entrepreneur Writing 97

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

Second, in your search for partners, you need to be aware of the many considerations that can make the difference between success and failure in the business, as well as your satisfaction with the relationship. Investors routinely decline to fund co-founders who are siblings, or in a romantic relationship. “We

Startup 95

Startup Satisfaction Entrepreneur Writing 95

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Being transparent about our workload, our struggles, our fund raising, whatever. We wanted to be the YouTube of document sharing so rather than requiring users to download documents we converted them into Flash so you could scroll through them online (I know this is common today, it wasn’t when we launched).

Organization 280

Organization Customer Custom Tips 280

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2010

Second, in your search for partners, you need to be aware of the many considerations that can make the difference between success and failure in the business, as well as your satisfaction with the relationship. Investors routinely decline to fund co-founders who are siblings, or in a romantic relationship. “We

Startup 82

Startup Entrepreneur Satisfaction Writing 82

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. Seth raised $100k in angel funding to fuel operations.

Startup 286

Startup Venture Capital Web Ideas 286