Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2021

Based on my own mentoring experience, here are seven key lessons I have learned, and offer to you as a potential source of inspiration and satisfaction, after some success in your business: Relationships are the real key to business success. Sharing through mentoring amplifies your satisfaction.

Mentor 159

Mentor Satisfaction Education Organization 159

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2023

How will work productivity and quality be impacted, and what effect will it have on personal careers, job satisfaction, and work-life balance? In my experience, a great office culture will enhance every team member productivity, as well as personal satisfaction. Change – make “journey of change” apply to all.

Coach 85

Coach Satisfaction Activity Sites 85

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Many writers have outlined the critical success factors for product companies, like sell every unit at a profit, patent the design, and continuous product improvement. The distinction between product companies and services companies is easy to see. The distinction between product companies and services companies is easy to see.

Product 91

Product Services Satisfaction Patents 91

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2022

The challenge is that every new business needs to be innovative and different, in order to rise above the crowd, bring real change to the world, and give you the satisfaction you seek. Upgrades and troubleshooting can normally be provided over the network, as well. I wish it was that easy. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

Technology 133

Technology Cloud Computing Social Media Networking 133

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2022

High-technology product startups, without customers, don’t make a business. Survey results show that more than 80% of consumers now receive advice through social networking sites prior to a product purchase. Most consumers now research online product reviews, blogs, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, for authoritative guidance.

Customer 122

Customer Custom Social Media Technical Review 122

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Some pundits argue that the E-Myth principle is now outdated, due to the instant access to information via the Internet, pervasive networking via social media, and courses on entrepreneurship at all levels of education. In this view the product features, cost, and support are the key to success. Hence most fail.

Technical Review 136

Technical Review Startup Social Media Satisfaction 136

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2023

If an innovative solution is involved, prepare a minimum viable product or a video to demonstrate functionality and usability. It’s much easier to pivot before full production and much money has been spent. Network extensively for partners, investors, and suppliers. Establish a visible and positive public image and brand.

Social Media 98

Social Media Metrics Media Tool 98

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2022

You will then experience satisfaction, instead of increased pressure. The most productive and respected business people know their limits and assertively protect them. Time spent building and maintaining key work relationships can dramatically improve your productivity, reduce stress, and raise your melting point.

Class 148

Class Activity Coach Satisfaction 148

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2022

Yet I find, as a mentor and outside consultant, that many of you focus only on working conditions and compensation as the key factors determining team engagement , health, and productivity. Every person requires some level of positive human interaction with co-workers and others to be satisfied and productive.

Technical Review 141

Technical Review Mentor Social Media Customer 141

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2023

Every existing business, as well as every startup, needs to reassess their product or service in the context of these five forces: Intensity of competitive rivalry. You are never the only alternative, hopefully just the best, in price, utility, and satisfaction. This is where most current business plan analyses focus today.

Competition 88

Competition Startup Framework Pricing 88

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2022

As you look forward from where you are today, I recommend that each of you consider the following points that the authors and I all agree are key to your satisfaction, as well as your success in business: You love solution creation more than managing business. No one else can do the solution delivery like you can.

Satisfaction 92

Satisfaction Training Customer Custom 92

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Yet these relationships require special efforts on both sides to be productive and satisfying. The first cost is networking to find a mentor who is willing and able to give adequate focus to the relationship. That’s the ultimate satisfaction. Mentoring is not as simple as one person giving the other all the right answers.

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Mentor Product Startup Summary 103

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2015

Develop written business plans as detailed as product plans. Good technologists produce written product specifications, to help them personally be confident that all the technical requirements are covered. Yet their business plans rarely get more than a page or two written.

Technical Review 54

Technical Review Product Activity Technology 54

Southern California Edison Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

And coming out of the pandemic, they are rethinking their office spaces and evaluating what features will best promote employee happiness and productivity. . Business tenants need high-speed internet to encourage employee productivity and promote effective collaboration. Property Owner Checklist to Drive Tenant Satisfaction.

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Southern California Sites Class Networking 96

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Every new entrepreneur has to initiate the right actions to be perceived as a leader in their chosen business domain by their team and by their customers, or the road to success and satisfaction will be lost along the way. Constantly strengthening your network of relationships. No entrepreneur can build a business alone.

Startup 127

Startup Training Entrepreneur Resource 127

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2021

Creating and growing a business requires creativity beyond the product, in the areas of finance, marketing, and operations. Unless you just sold your last business for a billion dollars, it’s hard to talk credibly about your next one without a written plan that outlines key business strategy elements, as well as product details.

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Funding Startup Ideas Resource 152

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Every existing business, as well as every startup, needs to reassess their product or service in the context of these five forces: Intensity of competitive rivalry. You are never the only alternative, hopefully just the best, in price, utility, and satisfaction. This is where most current business plan analyses focus today.

Competition 151

Competition Startup Framework Pricing 151

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2022

These events are also opportunities to get a better handle on customer requirements, as well as measure your customer satisfaction and market trends. At least, these professional networking events allow you to get out of the office and meet people who can help. Reach out to reward online influencers and advocates.

Marketing 119

Marketing Social Media Mentor Conference 119

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Leveraging the global network will improve your odds of a highly skilled match, and bring diversity, as well as more innovative ideas and thinking to your team. Today you need that budget for market fluxuations, pandemics, and product updates. Higher worker engagement and satisfaction.

Competition 168

Competition Startup Demand Training 168

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2022

No one wants to put in money until you have a product, and you need money to build the product. Offer low cash early, with bonuses or stock options for milestones, to people in your personal network. Startups are usually founded by product or service experts who don’t enjoy the various growth phases. Marty Zwilling.

Startup 130

Startup USC Entrepreneur Statistics 130

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

We have enough social network startups. You won’t be effective centering your life around someone else’s view of success, satisfaction, and happiness. Many entrepreneurs, especially technologists, relish building the product, and assume the business will build itself. Keep commitments, with no excuses.

Startup 148

Startup Entrepreneur Social Media Social Network 148

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2022

Even reputable organizations, supporting veterans, the police, firefighters or children, often raise eyebrows, with alarming real data like these from the America's Worst Charities report a while back on an activist website: Kids Wish Network – 2.5% distributed cash aid from $137.9 million collected Breast Cancer Relief Foundation – 2.2%

Organization 100

Organization Satisfaction Class Startup 100

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Yet most startups I know experience the same shock of disappointment when they first open up their website to offer their “million dollar idea” product, and nobody comes. Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and highlight several videos, podcasts, or eBooks of you and your technology. They will exit quickly.

Web 117

Web Search Engine Optimization eBook Advertising 117

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2020

As a side benefit, Amazon has ranked as #1 for customer satisfaction for many years in a row. It is also a huge productivity gain, to offset PowerPoint's infamous ability to reduce organizational intelligence. He repeatedly refers to what he calls " divinely discontented " customers. Avoid PowerPoint and graphic slide presentations.

Slides 137

Slides Customer Custom Satisfaction 137

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2019

High-technology product startups, without customers, don’t make a business. Survey results show that more than 80% of consumers now receive advice through social networking sites prior to a product purchase. Most consumers now research online product reviews, blogs, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, for authoritative guidance.

Customer 85

Customer Custom Social Media Technical Review 85

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

The challenge is that every new business needs to be innovative and different, in order to rise above the crowd, bring real change to the world, and give you the satisfaction you seek. Upgrades and troubleshooting can normally be provided over the network, as well. I wish it was that easy. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

Technology 86

Technology Cloud Computing Social Media Networking 86

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2020

Every new entrepreneur has to initiate the right actions to be perceived as a leader in their chosen business domain by their team and by their customers, or the road to success and satisfaction will be lost along the way. Constantly strengthening your network of relationships. No entrepreneur can build a business alone.

Entrepreneur 125

Entrepreneur Training Resource Customer 125

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

You must recognize that change is the new norm in business, so problems represent opportunities to learn something new, improve your productivity and competitiveness of the business. Find time in your work schedule for networking, working lunches, and business conferences, where you can test your ideas, learn, and generate support.

Coach 137

Coach Training Satisfaction Mentor 137

socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2020

We successfully accelerated our product innovation schedule to deliver, in record time, solutions to meet these challenges. This presented MomentFeed with an immense opportunity to help multi-location consumer brands meet the challenges brought on by an overnight shift in consumer shopping patterns.

Technical Review 140

Technical Review Software Review Organic Search Startup 140

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2019

You will then experience satisfaction, instead of increased pressure. The most productive and respected business people know their limits and assertively protect them. Time spent building and maintaining key work relationships can dramatically improve your productivity, reduce stress, and raise your melting point.

Class 93

Class Activity Coach Satisfaction 93

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2012

Many writers have outlined the critical success factors for product companies, like sell every unit at a profit, patent the design, and continuous product improvement. The distinction between product companies and services companies is easy to see. The distinction between product companies and services companies is easy to see.

Satisfaction 91

Satisfaction Patents Outsource Development Services 91

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Some pundits argue that the E-Myth principle is now outdated, due to the instant access to information via the Internet, pervasive networking via social media, and courses on entrepreneurship at all levels of education. In this view the product features, cost, and support are the key to success. Hence most fail.

Entrepreneur 107

Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Technical Review 107

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2015

The challenge is that every new business needs to be innovative and different, in order to rise above the crowd, bring real change to the world, and give you the satisfaction you seek. Upgrades and troubleshooting can normally be provided over the network, as well. I wish it was that easy. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

Startup 107

Startup Cloud Computing Social Media Entrepreneur 107

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Yet most startups I know experience the same shock of disappointment when they first open up their website to offer their “million dollar idea” product, and nobody comes. Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and highlight several videos, podcasts, or eBooks of you and your technology. They will exit quickly.

Search Engine Optimization 88

Search Engine Optimization eBook Advertising SEO 88

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2014

High-technology product startups, without customers, don’t make a business. Survey results show that 81% of consumers now receive advice through social networking sites prior to a product purchase. 77% of consumers now research online product reviews, blogs, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, for authoritative guidance.

Entrepreneur 100

Entrepreneur Social Media Technical Review Startup 100

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2019

No one wants to put in money until you have a product, and you need money to build the product. Offer low cash early, with bonuses or stock options for milestones, to people in your personal network. Startups are usually founded by product or service experts who don’t enjoy the various growth phases. Marty Zwilling.

Startup 97

Startup USC Entrepreneur Statistics 97

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2017

The challenge is that every new business needs to be innovative and different, in order to rise above the crowd, bring real change to the world, and give you the satisfaction you seek. Upgrades and troubleshooting can normally be provided over the network, as well. I wish it was that easy. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

Cloud Computing 61

Cloud Computing Startup Social Media Networking 61