Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2016

That’s productivity. That is a huge hit on productivity. For insight, I recommend the details provided in a recent book “ The 5 Choices: The Path to Extraordinary Productivity, ” by Kory Kogon, Adam Merrill, and Leena Rinne. Practice productivity planning with your key team members. That’s extraordinary productivity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2019

Having a breakthrough idea or technology alone does not assure business success. “ Successful businesses require innovative people, who have built an abundance of innovation capital, to win support and resources for their ideas. Professional investors are adept at looking for innovation capital, beyond the passionate pitch.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Many entrepreneurs have a passion and an idea, or even invent a new product, but are never able to execute to the point of creating a startup. Thus, in my view, entrepreneurship is an evolution of an idea through a series of developmental stages, culminating in a self-sustaining business. Startup and development stage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2021

As an advisor to startups and entrepreneurs, I often hear the myth that all new businesses must start with a great idea. I believe the best entrepreneurs start by finding a large opportunity, and only then use good ideas to capitalize on that opportunity. It takes a real selling opportunity to sustain a business idea.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

In this context, I definitely agree with the need for new ideas and principles, as was expressed in a new book, “ Wild Thinking: 25 Unconventional Ideas to Grow Your Brand and Your Business ,” by branding though leaders Nick Liddell and Richard Buchanan. A great business purpose is better than a great product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Entrepreneurs have always believed that their product or service must show real value to customers, but today the smart ones are even able to make their marketing valuable. The days are gone when marketing was all “pushing product.” Make your content answer some unmet customer need or question without pushing a product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2012

A startup begins with a great idea, but all too often, that’s where it ends. Ideas have to be implemented well to get the desired results. That’s why investors invest in entrepreneurs, rather than ideas. Maximize technology architecture and standards. Communicate effectively with the team and customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Many product innovations come from quality improvement focuses, like the Japanese Kaizen initiative. Some innovations are clearly implementations of visionary ideas, but anyone at the operational level can think outside the box, individually or as a team, to suggest and implement innovations. Innovations come from people, not culture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

In this case, the primary cash outflow would be for product development and operating expenses, with potentially enough runway to build the initial product, get a patent, attract some early adopters, and build the initial revenue stream. It’s why most investors proclaim that they invest in people, more than the idea.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Deliver edgy product demonstrations. New products being used in innovative and unusual ways spark buzz and attract followers. Get your community involved in both the idea and the delivery. Maximize your online brand and media presence. Why not make your idea an unstoppable movement, and not just a business?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2021

Many product innovations come from quality improvement focuses, like the Japanese Kaizen initiative. Some innovations are clearly implementations of visionary ideas, but anyone at the operational level can think outside the box, individually or as a team, to suggest and implement innovations. Innovations come from people, not culture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2016

Every startup begins with an idea, but from that point forward, it’s all about execution. Founders soon learn that customers only spend real money for solutions rather than ideas. Investors have also learned not to invest in ideas but only in entrepreneurs and teams who can deliver solutions. But Google is not unique.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2016

It’s still popular these days for startup founders to operate in stealth mode, meaning no details about the idea or progress are shared with anyone until the big reveal and rollout. The common reason given is that this prevents any competitor from stealing their idea and beating them to market. Get competitors to surface early.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Trying to do everything is a sure way to maximize stress, lower job satisfaction, and minimize productivity. If you are a genius at invention, for example, then that is the role you should seek to keep you motivated and productive. We all need to play to our strengths, and team with others for complementary needs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Within the startup realm, there is a big difference between having an innovative product versus an innovative business. Others take an existing product, and give it new life with a creative business model. Celebrate ideas. Flush out ideas and let go of the ones that fail. Maximize diversity. Think small.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2022

In school, you're taught to stretch weak ideas to reach your document page limit. The challenge is to communicate your idea in one page, and close the deal quickly. Maximizing Business Productivity. Productivity is much more than doing everything faster. Business Email and Texting. Touch-Typing for Business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2012

The real solution is better productivity and less procrastination, to put you back in control of your business. Jan Yager, a recognized expert on the subject of time management, just released a new edition of her most popular book, “ Work Less, Do More: The 14-Day Productivity Makeover.” Rest makes you more productive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2021

Deliver edgy product demonstrations. New products being used in innovative and unusual ways spark buzz and attract followers. Get your community involved in both the idea and the delivery. Maximize your online brand and media presence. Why not make your idea an unstoppable movement, and not just a business?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2020

Many entrepreneurs have a passion and an idea, or even invent a new product, but are never able to execute to the point of creating a startup. Thus, in my view, entrepreneurship is an evolution of an idea through a series of developmental stages, culminating in a self-sustaining business. Startup and development stage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2019

Image via Jisc As an advisor to startups and entrepreneurs, I often hear the myth that all new businesses must start with a great idea. I believe the best entrepreneurs start by finding a large opportunity, and only then use good ideas to capitalize on that opportunity. It takes a real selling opportunity to sustain a business idea.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2013

Within the startup realm, there is a big difference between having an innovative product versus an innovative business. Others take an existing product, and give it new life with a creative business model. Celebrate ideas. Flush out ideas and let go of the ones that fail. Maximize diversity. Think small.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

You don’t like it, millennials won’t put up with it, and current productivity levels at work continue to decline. She has lived and worked in five countries, and consulted with major corporations, as well as startups, in transforming their workplaces to be more productive as well as more satisfying. Sophie Wade.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2022

With social media and smart phone apps, real product information spreads at astounding speeds. Here are some key strategies to maximize the agility required for you to survive and prosper: Stamp out organizational inflexibility. An agile business doesn’t wait for their current product line to fail, before planning some enhancements.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2023

The idea has four principles guiding and underlying every business: Higher purpose. Business can and should be done with a higher purpose in mind, not just with a view to maximizing profits. The most common failures are solutions looking for a problem, lack of a defined market, and giving away the product.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

What are the elements needed to focus upon in making the attempt to take a product viral? I am past chairman of a company that distributes its product through over one hundred fifty retail Internet travel channels, all websites where someone else spent the money attracting their users and attempting to go viral. Third: cost.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

A better maxim for entrepreneurs is: Focus on meeting genuine human needs. Myth: If the idea is good, then the money will follow. The truth about ideas is that we don’t know if they are good; only customers know that. A better maxim for entrepreneurs is: Place small bets fast. Myth: Measure twice, cut once.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2019

In fact, some very innovative individuals, known as ‘idea people’ or inventors, often end up creating the most dysfunctional teams. The only way to build productive, collaborative, innovative, and cohesive teams is by resolving core dysfunction issues and implementing a structured process for innovation. Generate ideas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2011

If you want people to invest in your idea, then my best advice is first write a business plan, and keep it simple. On the other end of this spectrum are entrepreneurs who present long product specifications with a few financials at the end. Don't confuse your business plan with a doctoral thesis or the back of a napkin. It won’t work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2021

Every entrepreneur tries to maximize his startup growth by building and selling more product and services for the widest geographic area that he can support. Startups often find it difficult to retain key personnel and to control proprietary ideas. External scanning for resources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2020

The idea has four principles guiding and underlying every business: Higher purpose. Business can and should be done with a higher purpose in mind, not just with a view to maximizing profits. The most common failures are solutions looking for a problem, lack of a defined market, and giving away the product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

As a consultant, I often get asked what can be done to improve team relationships and maximize the impact of the whole organization. On the other hand, most business leaders agree than great team collaboration leads to more innovation, better decisions, and a more productive and satisfied workforce.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2012

A better maxim for entrepreneurs is: Focus on meeting genuine human needs. Myth: If the idea is good, then the money will follow. The truth about ideas is that we don’t know if they are good; only customers know that. A better maxim for entrepreneurs is: Place small bets fast. Myth: Measure twice, cut once.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Johnson in their classic book, “ Business Alchemy: Turning Ideas Into Gold ,” these different success expectations are what separates a lifestyle entrepreneur from a growth entrepreneur: Owner is the only one “in charge.” If you are living your passion, you want to interact with customers, and “touch and feel” the product every day.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2016

In fact, some very innovative individuals, known as ‘idea people’ or inventors, often end up creating the most dysfunctional teams. The only way to build productive, collaborative, innovative, and cohesive teams is by resolving core dysfunction issues and implementing a structured process for innovation. Generate ideas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2011

A better maxim for entrepreneurs is: Focus on meeting genuine human needs. Myth: If the idea is good, then the money will follow. The truth about ideas is that we don’t know if they are good; only customers know that. A better maxim for entrepreneurs is: Place small bets fast. Myth: Measure twice, cut once.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 11, 2013

These varied responsibilities are analogous to those of a startup CEO, as movie production crews are essentially temporary ventures. A Window Of Ideas - After years of working with old-school, authoritarian directors, Ben began his directorial debut of Gone Baby Gone, determined to inspire the film's crew, rather than bully and berate them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2017

As an advisor to startups and entrepreneurs, I often hear the myth that all new businesses must start with a great idea. I believe the best entrepreneurs start by finding a large opportunity, and only then use good ideas to capitalize on that opportunity. It takes a real selling opportunity to sustain a business idea.

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