Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2021

Intuitively, many entrepreneurs and businesses believe that the key to faster growth and success is more products, features, and markets. Later, after that initial success builds resources, and your penetration of the target market approaches 30 percent, it’s time to expand your horizons and make anticipatory changes to your focus.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2023

Transforming your organization for the new global economy requires perseverance and long-term thinking. Most great business leaders, including Jeff Bezos , maintain a key internal team to study and implement the next steps. Others, lured by hot new markets, abandon their core prematurely, with equally disastrous results.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2021

Thus I was pleased to see my own insights covered in a new book, “ Why Startups Fail ,” by Tom Eisenmann, a Harvard Business School professor, who has mentored many more entrepreneurs, and authored more than a hundred HBS case studies from real-world startups. A growing team needs skilled managers and an HR organization.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Sounds simple but in practice I promise you most organization fall into the latter trap. They are tasked with “getting deals done” so they race around talking to tons of potential partners inking anything from channel sale deals , product integration, international distribution agreements, co-marketing arrangements, M&A discussions, etc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2022

With the power of the Internet, and the impact of the recent pandemic , the world of business services, such as accounting and marketing, have gone more and more remote. I still find too many service organizations that ignore or discount online reviews and satisfaction surveys. Provide relevant case studies illustrating your results.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 30, 2017

Santa Monica-based Gigmor (www.gigmor.com) is an online marketplace for musicians, and recently expanded beyond connecting musicians with each other, to connecting musicians with venues, club organizers, and others. David Baird: I've been a musician since I was five, studying classical piano, and evolved into guitar like so many other people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

According to one study a while back, only 45% of founders plan to exit after stage one, and my guess is that less than half the remainder survive the next stage in their own company. Managing business growth is more than metrics. Separate marketing from sales for further leverage. Optimize the total customer experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Despite their own focus on changing the world, they often forget that they too have to change rapidly and often as the market evolves. It starts at the top with the founder and CEO, but has to extend quickly to the bottom of the organization. Change is about the only thing constant in the world of startups. Expedite change reaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2011

I suggested that he add some social network marketing initiatives, and his answer was he is “too busy.” He is not alone, according to a recent study , which concludes that only 47% of companies use social media today for marketing, despite the fact that 78% of executives polled feel it’s critical for success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2019

Despite their own focus on changing the world, they often forget that they too have to change rapidly and often as the market evolves. It starts at the top with the founder and CEO, but has to extend quickly to the bottom of the organization. Image via Wikipedia Change is about the only thing constant in the world of startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2010

I suggested that he add some social network marketing initiatives, and his answer was he is “too busy.” According to this study from last year, over 65% of existing small businesses still ignore social media for marketing, so he is still the rule rather than the exception. Develop a marketing strategy specific to this media.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Cyber & nuclear threats, disruptive innovation, and increasing competition for market share will continue to reshape how members view their memberships. This means organizations will require new and different external research to understand what tools they must provide in order to help their members make progress.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

According to one study a while back, only 45% of founders plan to exit after stage one, and my guess is that less than half the remainder survive the next stage in their own company. Managing business growth is more than metrics. Separate marketing from sales for further leverage. Optimize the total customer experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2019

In fact, you may have noticed in a recent study , that the business CEO turnover rate last year was the highest in 10 years, and may go even higher this year. Most people agree that leadership is primarily a set of behaviors that capitalize on relationships and a current market and customer understanding in a complex world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2017

Despite their own focus on changing the world, they often forget that they too have to change rapidly and often as the market evolves. It starts at the top with the founder and CEO, but has to extend quickly to the bottom of the organization. Change is about the only thing constant in the world of startups. Expedite change reaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

According to one study a while back, only 45% of founders plan to exit after stage one, and my guess is that less than half the remainder survive the next stage in their own company. Managing business growth is more than metrics. Separate marketing from sales for further leverage. Optimize the total customer experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2014

Despite their own focus on changing the world, they often forget that they too have to change rapidly and often as the market evolves. It starts at the top with the founder and CEO, but has to extend quickly to the bottom of the organization. Change is about the only thing constant in the world of startups. Expedite change reaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

According to one study , only 45% of Founders plan to exit after stage one, and my guess is that less than half the remainder survive the next stage in their own company. Managing business growth is more than metrics. Separate marketing from sales for further leverage. Separate marketing from sales for further leverage.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2016

We caught up with Clayton Lewis , the company's CEO (and also a General Partner at Maveron), here in Los Angeles last week as it launched into this market. We take this data, and organize those into dimensions�your diabetes range, your cardiovascular system, optimal aging, nutrition, stress. Arivale is based in Seattle.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Intuitively, many entrepreneurs and businesses believe that the key to faster growth and success is more products, features, and markets. Later, after that initial success builds resources, and your penetration of the target market approaches 30 percent, it’s time to expand your horizons and make anticipatory changes to your focus.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2013

When my friend’s small business was struggling a while back, I suggested he add some social media marketing initiatives, and his answer was that he was “too busy.” According to a study of 1700 CEOs last year, only 60% of companies today use social media for marketing, and only 12% of those feel that they are using it effectively.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Despite their own focus on changing the world, they often forget that they too have to change rapidly and often as the market evolves. It starts at the top with the founder and CEO, but has to extend quickly to the bottom of the organization. Change is about the only thing constant in the world of startups. Expedite change reaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2016

Intuitively, many entrepreneurs and businesses believe that the key to faster growth and success is more products, features, and markets. Later, after that initial success builds resources, and your penetration of the target market approaches 30 percent, it’s time to expand your horizons and make anticipatory changes to your focus.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

When you raise money from investors you produce information that you are told they want and care about: A fund-raising deck that articulates your company strategy, plans, team, market, competitors and so forth. You are going to “study” the details before making a decision. and then asking to take a brochure home with you. Yeah, sure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2010

Despite their own focus on changing the world, they often forget that they too have to change rapidly and often as the market evolves. It starts at the top with the founder and CEO, but has to extend quickly to the bottom of the organization. Change is about the only thing constant in the world of startups. Expedite change reaction.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

What I mean by that, is many times, when marketing departments are releasing a film, they release a few teaser scenes. A few companies have aggregated all of that free media out there from those marketing materials. Studies show, if you don't, people will turn to piracy. You just won't get those moments.

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