Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

In big businesses, people are quick to defer with “that’s not my department,” and even startup founders too often blame failures on the economy or the lack of investors. His advice starts with a request to stop blaming, and start asking, “What can I do to improve this situation?” The Question Behind The Question.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2021

Are you often frustrated that people reporting to you, or key peers, seem to dodge accountability for their actions? They are quick to claim the credit for things in their domain that work, but also quick to disclaim responsibility for problems that keep popping up. Communicate effectively what needs to be done.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2023

Great leaders provide opportunities and personal growth assignments that go far beyond conventional training programs. They mentor protégés on talent spotting, creativity, and motivation as well as strategy. The best business leaders never wait until a position opens up to start searching for talent to fill it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2022

A common request I get while mentoring entrepreneurs is for a copy of the startup checklist they need to follow, in order to build a successful new business. His checklists cover everything from building a vision, to consistently delivering results, for entrepreneurs up to mature business executives. I wish it was that easy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2014

Startups provide business leadership with new products, services, and new revenue models, but leadership startups can only be built by entrepreneurs who are leaders themselves, and incent leadership in the team around them. Most don’t know if the people reporting to them are married or single, or anything about them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2023

Every business wants and needs top performers, but most entrepreneurs and executives assume that if they hire and train the smartest and most experienced people, they will get exceptional performance. Your startup’s survival, as well as people performance, is at stake. Set the standards for good performance in each role.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

To do it well requires a focus on several key activities and practices, including the following: Maintain a positive attitude, since startup problems are normal. If you feel angry or exhibit a negative attitude to the team about problems, you will jeopardize the potential success of your startup. Very few startup problems are unique.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Great leaders provide opportunities and personal growth assignments that go far beyond conventional training programs. They mentor protégés on talent spotting, creativity, and motivation as well as strategy. The best business leaders never wait until a position opens up to start searching for talent to fill it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2019

According to current reports , both your employees and your customers have to feel they know you, and you know them, before levels of trust can accrue. Thus I offer the following prioritized initiatives from my own experience to get you started: Make sure everyone knows the business, good and bad.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2015

If an entrepreneur can’t build a culture of excitement and commitment at a startup, the chances of long-term success are negligible. As a mentor to entrepreneurs, I often get asked what you can do to build the right culture. Mentoring and training programs need to be put in place early. Every investor knows this.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2015

A common request I get while mentoring entrepreneurs is for a copy of the startup checklist they need to follow, in order to build a successful new business. His checklists cover everything from building a vision, to consistently delivering results, for entrepreneurs up to mature business executives. I wish it was that easy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2016

In big businesses, people are quick to defer with “that’s not my department,” and even startup founders too often blame failures on the economy or the lack of investors. His advice starts with a request to stop blaming, and start asking, “What can I do to improve this situation?” The Question Behind The Question.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2015

As an Angel investor in early-stage startups, I’ve long noticed my peers’ apparent bias toward the strength and character of the founding entrepreneurs, often overriding a strong solution to a painful problem with a big opportunity. Find and enjoy the company of one or more mentors. That means all of us have a chance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2016

If you can’t provide a memorable customer experience, your startup won’t survive very long these days. In case you don’t understand the urgency, just be aware that according to a recent Forrester report , nearly 95 percent of your competitors are saying that providing a good customer experience is their top strategic priority.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2019

I found many more helpful suggestions in a new book, “ The Culture Question ,” by Randy Grieser, Eric Stutzman, Wendy Loewen, and Michael Labun, who have spent years providing leadership and professional development training to companies around the world. Proactively provide support and training. No one likes useless work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Every business wants and needs top performers, but most entrepreneurs and executives assume that if they hire and train the smartest and most experienced people, they will get exceptional performance. Your startup’s survival, as well as people performance, is at stake. Set the standards for good performance in each role.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2017

A common request I get while mentoring entrepreneurs is for a copy of the startup checklist they need to follow, in order to build a successful new business. His checklists cover everything from building a vision, to consistently delivering results, for entrepreneurs up to mature business executives. I wish it was that easy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2011

Startups provide business leadership with new products, services, and new revenue models, but leadership startups can only be built by entrepreneurs who are leaders themselves, and incent leadership in the people around them. Most don’t know if the people reporting to them are married or single, or anything about them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2019

I and many others reported him regularly, and we were all frustrated that nothing was ever done. I might have been convinced that this was a rare exception to the norm, until I saw some Gallup survey reports showing that 68 percent of employees are not fully engaged at work. Hire and mentor people who show engagement in prior roles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2021

The fact is that you are in the people business—the business of hiring, training, and managing people to deliver the product or service you provide. Mentor your employees, encourage them, make partners out of them, and your organization is sure to benefit. Act with integrity. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2016

As an angel investor in early-stage startups, I’ve long noticed my peers apparent bias toward the strength and character of the founding entrepreneurs, often overriding a strong solution to a painful problem with a big opportunity. Find and enjoy the company of one or more mentors. That means all of us have a chance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

A common request I get while mentoring entrepreneurs is for a copy of the startup checklist they need to follow, in order to build a successful new business. His checklists cover everything from building a vision, to consistently delivering results, for entrepreneurs up to mature business executives. I wish it was that easy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Startups provide business leadership with new products, services, and new revenue models, but leadership startups can only be built by entrepreneurs who are leaders themselves, and incent leadership in the team around them. Most don’t know if the people reporting to them are married or single, or anything about them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2016

Startups provide business leadership with new products, services, and new revenue models, but leadership startups can only be built by entrepreneurs who are leaders themselves, and incent leadership in the team around them. Most don’t know if the people reporting to them are married or single, or anything about them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2016

In addition, if you are already a CFO, this position is a great springboard to the chief operating officer (COO) or even the CEO position in the startup, based on recent reports. In the case of GrubHub’s Adam DeWitt, he ended up with a salary exceeding that of the CEO. Every startup role requires managing to financial realities.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Here at TechCo, we’ve done plenty of lists rounding up the most impressive incubators, accelerators, and coworking spaces in plenty of major cities and across a variety of sectors, from the best healthcare accelerators to a collection of the top women-only coworking spaces. The Land O’Lakes Dairy Accelerator. Brooklyn Foodworks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

A common request I get while mentoring entrepreneurs is for a copy of the startup checklist they need to follow, in order to build a successful new business. His checklists cover everything from building a vision, to consistently delivering results, for entrepreneurs up to mature business executives. I wish it was that easy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2016

Great leaders provide opportunities and personal growth assignments that go far beyond conventional training programs. They mentor protégés on talent spotting, creativity, and motivation as well as strategy. The best business leaders never wait until a position opens up to start searching for talent to fill it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Unfortunately, too many of the technical entrepreneurs I mentor and advise are focused on their technology, and assume that the value will be self-evident to customers. This requires that you recruit the best talent, train to your best, and motivate so team members all perform at their best.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2016

Every business wants and needs top performers, but most entrepreneurs and executives assume that if they hire and train the smartest and most experienced people, they will get exceptional performance. Your startup’s survival, as well as people performance, is at stake. Set the standards for good performance in each role.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2017

Starting and running a business is hard. As an angel investor in startups, I often find myself looking harder at the quality of the team and the leadership, than at the details of the product and business model. Don’t believe the old myth that with a few hours of work a day and a great web site, you can get rich while you sleep.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2013

The fact is that you are in the people business—the business of hiring, training, and managing people to deliver the product or service you provide. Mentor your employees, encourage them, make partners out of them, and your organization is sure to benefit. Act with integrity. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2010

The fact is that you are in the people business—the business of hiring, training, and managing people to deliver the product or service you provide. Mentor your employees, encourage them, make partners out of them, and your organization is sure to benefit. Act with integrity. Marty Zwilling.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2012

The fact is that you are in the people business—the business of hiring, training, and managing people to deliver the product or service you provide. Mentor your employees, encourage them, make partners out of them, and your organization is sure to benefit. Act with integrity. Marty Zwilling.

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Frank Addante

MAY 12, 2007

► February (1) What do you do when a reporter you admire misrepre. ► August (1) Stay Positive ► July (2) Go Fast, but Don’t Hurry The DNA of an A++ Team ► June (1) Setting up Shop - Picking an Office Space ▼ May (3) Startup 6.0 - the Rubicon Project: Internet Advert. Startup 3.0:

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