Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2012

You hear a lot of talk these days about the importance of customer satisfaction, but customer loyalty is the real win. I think these tough economic times and social networks have re-awakened consumers to the fact that there is more to a business transaction than price. Ask your suppliers for help in maintaining margins.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2017

Highlight your interest in helping and giving back. Going out of your way to help a customer or help a good cause pays big dividends these days. As an example, early businesses that were willing to publish their commitment to “customer satisfaction or your money back” became influencers. Now customers look for more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Many soon find that what you do in a personal context doesn’t necessarily translate to your business, and measuring business value is quite different from measuring personal satisfaction. When it comes to social media for your business, expect a high learning curve, but rest assured it’s not rocket science. billion users).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2015

The challenge is that every new business needs to be innovative and different, in order to rise above the crowd, bring real change to the world, and give you the satisfaction you seek. Social Media. Social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn manage communities comprised of millions of people worldwide.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 20, 2013

And all of our tech toys, cheap travel, social networks and real-time communications will never replace true human relationships. They gain satisfaction and status from knowing “stuff” and one-upping other men in sharing and debating facts. And this story was written pre Internet, pre smartphone, pre social networks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2017

The challenge is that every new business needs to be innovative and different, in order to rise above the crowd, bring real change to the world, and give you the satisfaction you seek. Social Media. Social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn manage communities comprised of millions of people worldwide.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2018

We have enough social network startups. You won’t be effective centering your life around someone else’s view of success, satisfaction, and happiness. That means knowing when to delegate, enlist help, and say no. Enlarge your circle of influence, and manage risk as an opportunity, not a negative.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

The challenge is that every new business needs to be innovative and different, in order to rise above the crowd, bring real change to the world, and give you the satisfaction you seek. Social Media. Social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn manage communities comprised of millions of people worldwide.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

Maybe it’s just another example of nature abhorring a vacuum, but I prefer to think it’s a natural evolution of the pervasive social networking communities where people relate to, and expect to interact with businesses and products they like. They drive the market, rather than the other way around.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2016

We have enough social network startups. You won’t be effective centering your life around someone else’s view of success, satisfaction, and happiness. That means knowing when to delegate, enlist help, and say no. Enlarge your circle of influence, and manage risk as an opportunity, not a negative.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

High on my list is the joy and satisfaction of having helped many entrepreneurs face-to-face this year, and hopefully many more by my blog reaching out over the Internet. These last couple of years have not been great financially for entrepreneurs, but it always helps to look at the cup as half full, rather than half empty.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Braykion CEO Jon Wilensky said the smart wristband is intended to help prevent the spread of hospital-acquired infections by tracking whether doctors, nurses, and other caregivers are washing their hands before they interact with patients, who would also be wearing a Braykion wristband. billion in medical expenses annually.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

What we’re doing at Meebo is trying to socially enable websites by allowing them to immediately get not only the social graph information but to do useful stuff with it. Over time we’ll continue to build out the applications – helping make the entire web more social.&#. They help make rational decisions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2010

Rather than negotiating bureaucracy with a corporate to-do list, an enthusiastic intern at a startup will help you by learning to make quick decisions, and doing more with less. Satisfaction vs. Stress. Successful startups survive and prosper through their ability to constantly create and adapt to stay ahead of the game.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2011

The second company in which I invested, back in 2001, was a novel concept from the serial entrepreneur who invented social networking. The entrepreneurial life is one of challenge, work, dedication, perseverance, exhilaration, agony, accomplishment, failure, sacrifice, control, powerlessness…but ultimately, extraordinary satisfaction.

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