Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2020

According to a classic study from Deloitte , happy employees have been shown to be up to 20 percent more effective in the workplace than unhappy employees, as well as far more loyal and productive. Positive event variety prevents adaptation. People tend to discount events that happen repeatedly, no matter how positive.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 8, 2014

New York Times columnist David Brooks notes in this article that, "Lovers face each other, but friends stand side-by-side, facing the world." Consider a recent study that noted that most people cite their happiest (and saddest) moments as those which involve a relationship. The Power Of Adult Friendships. Friendtorship.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Trying to do too many things at the same time, in my view, results in nothing done well. Take the time to fully focus on each task you are faced with, and your decisions and productivity will improve. Some recent studies by scientists assert that multi-tasking not only reduces your output, but it also reduces your IQ.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2022

His studies show that companies at this stage show five key characteristics, which I believe every startup should strive to achieve from the very beginning: Decision making. Goals are hit more than missed, and people are willing to take timely, corrective action. The ability to readily make and consistently implement decisions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2023

The science and human factors behind this approach are explained in a classic book, Crunch Time: How to Be Your Best When It Matters Most ,” by Rick Peterson and Judd Hoekstra. It’s more satisfying and fun to say “It’s time to add my new innovation for real value.” When times are tough, the first battle always fought is in your mind.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

They outline the new rules for existing brands, but I believe that every entrepreneur who doesn’t yet have a brand yet should study these carefully, as paraphrased for startups below. If you listen to them and respond, they will become your best apostles, delivering on average eight times their own value in new customers.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2012

When you think out the use case, it's all about people who love to have dinner parties at your place, who love to meet new people, and who love to create events, whether they are public or private. You can also make your event private. I used to work for KPMG Advisory Group, and spent time in China and Beijing.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2012

When you think out the use case, it's all about people who love to have dinner parties at your place, who love to meet new people, and who love to create events, whether they are public or private. You can also make your event private. I used to work for KPMG Advisory Group, and spent time in China and Beijing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2013

Compelling Event. Compelling Event is the thing that forces your prospect to realize they need to kick off a project immediately. But you can’t count on this so you must create your own compelling events and the only way I know how is a business case / return-on-investment (ROI) study. We called our methodology PUCCKA.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2022

In a famous Harvard study of 212 new ventures a few years ago, USC professor Noam Wasserman found that half the founders were no longer at the helm after three years, and over time 80% were forced out. The right time to start dilemma. The right time to jump is a function of favorable career, personal, and market circumstances.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2021

He has completed a study of more than 100 CEOs, with feedback from over 8,000 of their employees on this topic. His research concluded that CEOs who received high scores for character also achieved much higher business results – nearly five times the average return on assets (ROA) during the two-year period covered.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

As a new business advisor, I hear facts all the time about how hard an entrepreneur is working, but often have a hard time getting them to quantify results. A more comprehensive study by Gallup showed that 70 percent of employees today lack these attributes. Prioritize all your time spent using the 80/20 rule.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

The solution is to establish and maintain a culture and processes that don’t view change as a discrete event to be spotted and managed, but as an ongoing opportunity to improve competitiveness. This contextual focus is critical to innovation and survival – the right product at the right time. Increase change agility.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 12, 2014

Benedikt Scholz is an exceptional student whom I had the pleasure of instructing when he recently studied at UC Santa Barbara. Before arriving in Santa Barbara, he had already launched his first startup, Rooming , which helps college students manage their living accommodations while studying abroad or interning. Meeting Adam Cheyer.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

I saw him on stage at the event talking about how he used social media to engage audiences. This was 2009 and his understanding of audience engagement was far beyond anything I was hearing from most people at that time. I reached out after the event to learn more.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

At the same time, we're trying to help add women and diversity to technology and entrepreneurship. The idea came about, because we see a lot of people coming through our program at UCLA, who might have the desire to be an entrepreneur, and to get into the technology field, by studying data science or cybersecurity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2021

It does mean that you need to look, listen, and participate in the business world around you, and network through all available channels, like business-oriented social networks online (LinkedIn), local business organizations (Chamber of Commerce), and events or conferences in your school or industry. Don’t skip all business social settings.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

The science and human factors behind this approach are explained in a classic book, Crunch Time: How to Be Your Best When It Matters Most ,” by Rick Peterson and Judd Hoekstra. It’s more satisfying and fun to say “It’s time to add my new innovation for real value.” When times are tough, the first battle always fought is in your mind.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2022

According to a classic Gallup survey , job satisfaction for employees has reached an all-time low. Find the men and women you wish to be more like, talk to them, study them, and learn from them. It has to start long before that, with a mindset event that drives a real change in behavior.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 21, 2021

There are many studies that tell us how various industries reward employees for achievement above a base pay, or beyond expectation. Rewarding a February achievement in December disconnects the reward from the event, reducing the effect of the reward itself. But back to the money issue…. Protection against gaming the system.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

A new poll from the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies found that it’s going to be a close election. Then, in 2018, programming language Python ditched the racist terminology. Let’s start with Prop 22. Instead, their business models trap poor workers into intractable cycles of poverty and economic exclusion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2020

According to studies , the alternative of acquiring new customers still costs you five to seven times more than retaining existing ones. They don’t realize how much it costs in time and money to get there, and only one out of a hundred large consumer product companies around the world have ever made it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2020

I found many of the principles of the new leadership style outlined well in a new book, “ Cracking the Leadership Code ,” by Alain Hunkins, who has spent his career working with leaders in large companies, as well as small, studying the practices and skills that work best today. Use networking events are an opportunity to practice empathy.

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socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2010

On March 10, socaltech.com profiled a study of the financial outcomes of 700+ southern California IT startups from 1995-2009 completed by Jon Funk of OceanRoad Partners and others. This approach can be used to hypothesize the scale of return available at the time liquidity is available. Thus, knowing how (More.).

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

” Case studies get done with ebullient CEO’s espousing the benefits of said software even though their organization was barely using the product. ROI studies were published. Work with customers on business cases (for internal use) and ask for case studies (for you to publish in marketing).

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Each decision you make to commit resources – your money or your use of corporate or personal time – affects the future value of your business. The alternative uses of your time and money. Know first that statistically, 80% of all acquisitions do not meet the intended objectives of the acquirer, making most all acquisitions risky.

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socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2013

Our second measure of the effectiveness of accelerators, was the number of funding events (angel, venture capital, other funding) associated with companies out of the region. According to our tally, over the last year, 18 of the accelerator''s companies received some kind of funding event. Not far behind was Science Inc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2019

With the cost of starting an online business today at an all-time low, I can’t imagine why everyone doesn’t have a web site and an LLC to mitigate liability and minimize taxes. Learn more about business by doing versus studying. Seek out relevant business groups and events. Give yourself a lifestyle choice – employee or owner.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

I roughly know about MakeItWork, but tell me a bit about where you spend your time day-to-day. I have a few meetings with the team, perhaps about the website design, radio show structure, an event we are working on, a sponsorship (perhaps the uniforms for our youth basketball team). Sometimes I make a blog entry. Love the minis!

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Sophiris Bio said Monday that 10 patients who were administered its experimental prostate cancer drug a second time didn’t see any additional benefit. In June, the company said 10 of 37 patients with localized prostate cancer in its Phase 2b study who received the treatment reported a clinically significant response.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 5, 2023

Every one of us would like this to be the “ big bang ” theory, but the reality is just plugging along one step at a time. It’s fair to work both backward and forward from major events, and you must review and update your plan on a regular basis, as you encounter and overcome obstacles. Use self-study and coaching as required.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

These drivers have become the destination for their spaces like Amazon with consumer products, Aetna with healthcare needs, and USAA for life events. In a study conducted at MIT Sloan’s Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), we found that only 12 percent of large companies (with revenues more than $1 billion) are ecosystem drivers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2014

For example, the Harvard Business Review a while back included an analysis of hundreds of studies showing an average of 31% higher productivity, 37% higher sales, with creativity three times higher. Positive event variety prevents adaptation. People tend to discount events that happen repeatedly, no matter how positive.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 10, 2010

Is it all just a waste a time or is there a major breakthrough here waiting to be leveraged? This event will take experts from social media analytics, new media thought leaders and practical marketing masters to help you make up your mind if social media is even worth it and if it can be applied to your business. See [link] (more).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 9, 2019

They have integrated this with internal systems on Slack or Facebook Messenger to allow employees to check the wait times in real time and plan their days accordingly. As businesses expand you naturally find meeting rooms built for 12 but used mostly for 2–4 people at a time that would more effectively be built at 2 meeting rooms.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 7, 2014

Now the clock reads 46:23:50:43, 42, 41… “That’s the amount of time we have left until demo day,” the founder stated with a smile. As Dave McClure, founder of 500 Startups quoted from the Economist puts it… “I’d rather get $100,000 and be a case study than pay $100,000 to read case studies.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2022

Thankfully, most mistakes won’t be as spectacular as the America Online merger with Time Warner for $350 billion, back in 2000, engineered by then superstar entrepreneurs Stephen M. They apparently ignored all conventional wisdom and advisors, and struck a deal which crashed both companies, now a case study in many business schools.

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