Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Most aspiring entrepreneurs believe their initial idea and inspiration requires the most important creative thinking. Experienced entrepreneurs will tell you that the initial idea is the easy part, and it’s the later implementation, and the competitive business marketing that are the real creative challenges. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2021

Most aspiring entrepreneurs believe their initial idea and inspiration requires the most important creative thinking. Experienced entrepreneurs will tell you that the initial idea is the easy part, and it’s the later implementation, and the competitive business marketing that are the real creative challenges. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2018

Do you have a startup idea, and a team, but no seed funding, and are even too early for an early stage startup accelerator? The program--which is taking applications here in Los Angeles until March 22nd--said it is looking for eight startups to include in a six week mentorship and training program.

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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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Many people believe that new ideas are the critical element of innovation, but in my experience as a mentor and investor, long-term business success is more about implementation than ideas. Everyone has ideas, but only a few can make them happen. We are looking for people who can lead a team and turn any idea into a business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

After the idea, it’s all about execution. I often hear from investors that a great idea is necessary, but not sufficient. Provide team support and training. People are your most valuable asset, so start with the right ones, and make sure they have the tools and training to deliver the results you are asking for.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2022

You shouldn’t be making this decision just because you are mad at your boss, or you would like to be rich, or someone else thinks you have a good idea. Right idea at the right time. Do you believe that you have an idea for a company that you can implement better than anyone, and maintain a competitive advantage?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2023

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. Show that you have a process to hire, fire, and train others as required. Formalize the use of tools and information technology.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 29, 2021

The idea for ChargerHelp came from Terry’s experience working at EV Connect , where she held a number of roles, including head of customer experience and director of programs. Terry said they have also hired their core team of seven employees and trained their first tranche of technicians. Powering up. Hiring approach.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2016

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. Show that you have a process to hire, fire, and train others as required. Formalize the use of tools and information technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Most aspiring entrepreneurs believe that a great idea alone will assure business success. I recently found the classic sales training book “ Bootstrap Selling The Sandler Way ,” by Bill Morrison, who has 20 years in sales leadership roles, and I was amazed at how many of his sales lessons are great lessons for new entrepreneurs as well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

This new culture builds on hobbyist technologies, extends the open-source inventory of hardware and software, and bridges the gap into real business solutions with other advantages, as follows: Shortens the time and cost from idea to prototype. These ideas can grow quickly into real products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Most aspiring entrepreneurs are convinced that the strength of their initial idea somehow defines them as a leader, as well as the success potential of their derivative business. It takes leadership ability, as well as a good idea, to make a successful entrepreneur, and great leaders evolve from key leadership decisions along the way.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2021

I’m sure we have all seen entrepreneurs with high levels of passion and confidence touting an idea that seems to make very little sense to us. This refers to our mind’s tendency to give excessive weight to the first information we receive about a topic or the first idea we think of. Investing more into a bad idea doesn’t make it good.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2023

It starts with a vision, but benefits quickly from a structured process of idea generation, evaluation, prototyping, customer feedback, and success metrics. Training and coaching. Idea management. Build and manage a pipeline of ideas. Failure is the best teacher. New product process. Set milestones and meet them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

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. Business Email and Texting. Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment. The business world expects exactly the opposite. Touch-Typing for Business.

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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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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

There''s been a lot of buzz about tech mogul Elon Musks''s idea behind "Hyperloop"--a concept to make transit between Los Angeles and San Francisco in only minutes, using 800 mph, aluminum pods. However, Musk''s idea has only been that--an idea--with no plans to actually implement the transportation system.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In my years of advising startups and occasional investing, I’ve seen many great ideas start and fail, but the right team always seems to make good things happen, even without the ultimate idea. That’s why investors say they invest in people (bet on the jockey, not the horse), rather than the idea. The financial suit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

After the idea, it’s all about execution. I often hear from investors that a great idea is necessary, but not sufficient. Provide team support and training. People are your most valuable asset, so start with the right ones, and make sure they have the tools and training to deliver the results you are asking for.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2021

One of the business ironies that many entrepreneurs have learned the hard way in the past is that ideas which are truly disruptive carry the highest risk of failure, take the longest to gain traction, and thus are the least likely to get external funding. Unpack your best ideas. Ideas without context are just a commodity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Startups don’t come with formal training courses. New entrepreneurs quickly find that what they learned in business school is no substitute for real-world business experience and training. Entrepreneurs are an optimistic and passionate group, who normally expect their idea to go viral soon, and success to follow shortly thereafter.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2020

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. Show that you have a process to hire, fire, and train others as required. Formalize the use of tools and information technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The most effective people to execute strategic initiatives are likely ones who have recently led similar activities in multiple related environments, not ones who have been grown and trained inside. Projects need not be constrained by organizational boundaries, long-term budgeting, or conventional staffing and training practices.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2021

In other words, the entrepreneur quality is more important than the idea -- in investor jargon, people invest in the jockey, and not the horse. The authors found these to be achievable through self-training and practice, rather than requiring a genetic endowment. Demonstrate the ideas and behaviors of self-determination.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2021

He later closed more than 8,000 of his stores for a day to provide employee racial-bias training. Accountability starts with sharing your ideas and expectations with everyone involved, rather than just assuming that others will see things the same way, and understand the big picture, as well as the details.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2023

Here are some pragmatic tips on how to make your startup more scalable and investable: If you need investors, start with a scalable idea. Just because all your buddies think an idea is cool, that doesn’t mean it is scalable. Document processes and build online training videos so new people can come online quickly and consistently.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2023

As an investor and advisor to entrepreneurs, I see accountability, or lack of it, as an override to even the best idea. Provide resources and training to enable accountability. Other necessary resources include training, reasonable financial leeway, mentoring, and access to relevant executives.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2015

The flat rate includes use of those locations during training sessions. We offer six different genres of fitness: Crossfit, strength training, Pilates, boxing, yoga, and stretching. The idea is that the program information and analytics are all stored in the app itself, so that they can track their progress.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2023

Almost every entrepreneur starts their journey by developing a solution, based on their idea of a new technology or required service. These idea and developer skills are necessary, but not sufficient, to build a business. Create and use new networks to tap new ideas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Kulhan is a professor at the Duke University School of Business, but was trained in improvisation by some comedy greats, including Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Always acknowledge ideas and add to them. Improvisation does require training. Everyone is turned off by a “Yes, but …” response. Leaders must be the example.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 13, 2017

VentureWell, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit that supports science and technology entrepreneurs, has selected a medical simulation startup founded by University of Maine students to receive funding and training. The E-Team Grant Program targets students with an idea or invention that could potentially solve a real-world, social need.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2023

While your initial idea was new and not envisioned by others, it is now out there for others to attack with copies and enhancements. Focus your hiring and training on preparing for the future. Balance your internal training for specific roles with a focus on market trends and change. The return was far greater than the cost.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

You shouldn’t be making this decision just because you are mad at your boss, or you would like to be rich, or someone else thinks you have a good idea. Right idea at the right time. Do you believe that you have an idea for a company that you can implement better than anyone, and maintain a competitive advantage?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2022

That means they must believe in what you are trying to do, and feel they have the right tools, training, and reward system to do the job that needs to be done. He is always open to the ideas of his team, and even if he doesn't agree that an idea will work, he'll say so, but he often supports and funds it anyway.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2020

It starts with a vision, but benefits quickly from a structured process of idea generation, evaluation, prototyping, customer feedback, and success metrics. Training and coaching. Idea management. Build and manage a pipeline of ideas. Failure is the best teacher. New product process. Set milestones and meet them.

Coach 144

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2021

No formal training courses. Larger enterprises are always sending their “high fliers” to leadership refreshers, new technology updates, and training on employee performance management. Every business startup has to have a viable idea, but it also needs a strong sense of realism on the possible pitfalls.

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