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Balance Your Focus Between Passion And Perspiration

Startup Professionals Musings

Having enough revenue to finally give yourself a salary is an inspiring event, and one that you should savor. New business models that provide an ongoing revenue stream, or a secondary stream from advertising, raise your margins and can give you some additional satisfaction. Celebrate the ability to pay yourself a salary.

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Celebrating the Life and Work of Tony Hsieh

Tech.Co

Tony was also our neighbor for 8 years in downtown Las Vegas, where the company grew its homebase and hosted monthly events for locals and visitors from around the world, with Hsieh’s Downtown Project. We also shared a passion for seeing others launch new ideas and grow them.

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LA CEOs: Building High Performing Cultures

SoCal Tech Calendar

The result is industry-leading productivity, innovation, collaboration, and job satisfaction. This event is restricted to qualified CEOs and CFOs ONLY, no service providers. Participants will leave with the ability to assess their workplace and upgrade each to their most effective potential. Confirmed RSVP a must. See [link] (more)

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Missed Expectations and the 80% M&A Rule.

Berkonomics

Study the literature about companies that have succeeded in their acquisitions, finding how and why such successes rose to the top twenty percent of all acquisitions when measured by the acquiring company CEO satisfaction ratings after a year. Emulate those actions that are appropriate.

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Maintain Your Startup Motivation While Working Harder

Startup Professionals Musings

Having enough revenue to finally give yourself a salary is an inspiring event, and one that you should savor. New business models that provide an ongoing revenue stream, or a secondary stream from advertising, raise your margins and can give you some additional satisfaction. Celebrate the ability to pay yourself a salary.

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6 Ways To Test Your New Venture Sustainability Early

Startup Professionals Musings

Proof of any business model starts with a finished product or solution, sold to a new customer for full price, with high satisfaction for the value received. Of course, that has be a repeatable event, with enough revenue to sustain the business. Customer support is more than handling exceptions.

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6 Tips For Combining Passion And Purpose To Stand Out

Startup Professionals Musings

Both ends of this spectrum fail to bring long-term satisfaction or success. Outside of work, it’s important to join a club, do volunteer work, and help at local events. Both should be thought of as in perpetual motion, so finding your sweet spot is not a one-time event. Establish a team-defined declaration of purpose.

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