Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2021

Almost every entrepreneur and new business owner I mentor is certain that his/her idea has a very high probability of success, and all find it hard to believe that ninety percent of startups ultimately fail. It’s an amazing ride, and there is no satisfaction like creating something out of nothing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The result is fewer and fewer new ideas are volunteered by prospective leaders and key team members, and the business suffers from poor customer satisfaction or loss of market share. The challenge is for leaders to really listen to their team and the market, and for every team member to anticipate pushbacks and respond effectively.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2022

One of the dysfunctions I often see in my coaching and mentoring work with small businesses is team member burnout. For example, Patagonia donates one percent of their sales to environmental charities, and has a high sense of community. Organization acts without fairness and respect.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2020

As a mentor and advisor to entrepreneurs and startups, and an angel investor, my passion is to find and nurture those entrepreneurs with innovative business ideas and acumen, to make them into successful business owners. Business owners get their satisfaction from happy customers and happy stakeholders.

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Ideas Entrepreneur Satisfaction Summary 127

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2022

Dini, tied together several threads I have often seen in my own experience of mentoring and helping aspiring entrepreneurs. Farmers have a narrower view of what is required, to optimize quality production, customer satisfaction, or close a sale.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2020

Boomer investors are much more likely to get in the game with a high focus on mentoring and give-back, as well as the financial return potential. They want to share your satisfaction in success, maybe as a reward for their own mistakes and learning earlier in life in their own businesses. Marketing and sales to Gen-Y customers.

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Startup Technical Review Software Review Entrepreneur 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2023

With pervasive access to social media, customers no longer differentiate poor product repair and replacement from a poor shopping experience or customer usage satisfaction. Your challenge is to excel in all elements of a customer interaction, from pre-sales to long-term advocacy and image. Inflexible processes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2020

These will almost always be related to sales and marketing, since they must tie back to cash flow. Increase you focus on coaching, training, and mentoring. This is the stage where you move from managing by your gut to managing by numbers. Stay connected and engaged with your employees.

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Metrics Entrepreneur Coach Satisfaction 140

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2019

You now need help, rather than helpers, who can not only do their job independently, but can teach you the finer points of sales or finance, which may not be your strong suite. Lead and mentor team members to run all business areas. All teams must be motivated and engaged by your leadership and mentoring.

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Company Companies Technical Review Startup 99

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

As a mentor to entrepreneurs, I often get asked for the magic that has made Amazon the world's most valuable brand , from a total unknown only twenty years ago. For example, when delivery costs and delays were still a major online sales hurdle, Amazon Prime membership was invented to offer free next day shipping.

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Marketing Technical Review Customer Custom 123

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Dini, tied together several threads I have often seen in my own experience of mentoring and helping aspiring entrepreneurs. Farmers have a narrower view of what is required, to optimize quality production, customer satisfaction, or close a sale.

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Entrepreneur News Slides Startup 95

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2015

As a mentor and advisor to entrepreneurs and startups, and an Angel investor, my passion is to find and nurture those entrepreneurs with innovative business ideas and acumen, to make them into successful business owners. Business owners get their satisfaction from happy customers and happy stakeholders.

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Entrepreneur Ideas Satisfaction Summary 109

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Creating an innovative new business is guaranteed to test your skills, patience and determination, and you need to derive satisfaction from the journey, as well as the destination. Don’t hesitate to call in an experienced advisor or mentor to help. Contrary to a popular myth, problem-solving is a talent that can be developed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2016

In my own role as advisor and mentor to many entrepreneurs and startups, I was struck by how relevant and critical these same initiatives are to even the earliest stage businesses. Your standards for product quality, sales growth, and customer satisfaction must be documented and reviewed prior to results and performance reviews.

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Coach Satisfaction Entrepreneur Resource 52

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

Boomer investors are much more likely to get in the game with a high focus on mentoring and give-back, as well as the financial return potential. They want to share your satisfaction in success, maybe as a reward for their own mistakes and learning earlier in life in their own businesses. Marketing and sales to Gen-Y customers.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Software Review Report 106

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2018

It’s easy to see how cultures go astray, for example, when you pay only for sales volume, but expect a high focus on customer satisfaction. These metrics need the same top management attention as customer retention and sales metrics. Recruit, mentor, and promote talent to highlight opportunity. Place shapes culture.

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Metrics Startup Netflix Customer 57

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2016

As a mentor and advisor to entrepreneurs and startups, and an Angel investor, my passion is to find and nurture those entrepreneurs with innovative business ideas and acumen, to make them into successful business owners. Business owners get their satisfaction from happy customers and happy stakeholders.

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Startup Ideas Satisfaction Entrepreneur 66

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2015

Dini, tied together several threads I have often seen in my own experience of mentoring and helping aspiring entrepreneurs. Farmers have a narrower view of what is required, to optimize quality production, customer satisfaction, or close a sale.

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Entrepreneur News Slides Startup 106

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2014

Dini, tied together several threads I have often seen in my own experience of mentoring and helping aspiring entrepreneurs. Farmers have a narrower view of what is required, to optimize quality production, customer satisfaction, or close a sale.

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Entrepreneur Startup News Slides 109

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2018

They need your mentoring, tools, and historical data to be a top performer. Thus paying for sales volume, when you desire customer satisfaction, will not get you high performance. You can’t expect new team members to come pre-loaded with all the same background and insights. Yet in the long run, you get what you pay for.

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Technical Review Startup Training Netflix 51

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Dini, tied together several threads I have often seen in my own experience of mentoring and helping aspiring entrepreneurs. Farmers have a narrower view of what is required, to optimize quality production, customer satisfaction, or close a sale.

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Entrepreneur News Slides Startup 54

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2016

That team has to cover the range from top designers, savvy financial managers, to good marketing and sales leaders. They get their satisfaction from the journey, as well as the destination. Lone scientists may uncover some great technology, but a team is required to build a solution and a market.

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Entrepreneur Marketing Design Satisfaction 56

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

Yet with major advances in our product infrastructure we still hadn’t proven we could scale sales. The board was unanimous in our opinion of this including outside director Ian Rogers who has served as Jonathan’s mentor and friend. “Being there at the start isn’t the only path to being a founder. ” So true.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2021

Your focus for momentum could be sales, profitability, or number of customers, but trying to keep all possible parameters growing is simply not practical. In most companies, maintaining momentum requires the right strategic partners and acquisitions, in lieu of short-term price adjustments and special sales.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 20, 2013

Who is the sales person? Such an approach will increase overall satisfaction of your startup team as you empower these leaders with the influence to affect the bottom line. Just like in a startup team, a CEO should be aware of all the roles his co-founders or employees fulfill and predict how they perform in certain situations.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 3, 2015

Many women rose to the top of their careers only to discover how unsatisfying, soul-draining and unhealthy a lifestyle it was and completely changed careers to find satisfaction doing something completely different where they once again became successful, but in a more balanced manner.

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