Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Studies of software teams, for example, show differences as great as ten to one in productivity between working team members. Much has been written about the external influences of office environments, motivation, and personal health impacts, but I see evidence that there are personal productivity tactics that contribute just as much.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 31, 2017

Time bankruptcy results from the deliberate over-commitment of core resources. You’re fighting to put out the fires from customer complaints, or incomplete work, or are suffering from an inability to focus upon new development or new customers before cleaning up the mess inside your organization. It’s a classic case of time bankruptcy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2021

If you define your self-worth as an entrepreneur by how busy you are, it’s time to find another lifestyle. That’s productivity. In an eye-opening Franklin Covey study, respondents indicated that 40 percent of their time was being spent on things that were not important to them or their companies. Why is this so hard?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2021

Every startup founder feels the pressure of the thousands of things that need to get done, all seemingly at the same time. There is just not enough time! The real solution is better productivity and less procrastination, to put you back in control of your business. Making the time to organize yourself will save you time.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2013

If you don’t have a good sales methodology already in place in your organization you might try reading that last link. Calling high means reaching the highest level appropriate person in an organization that you can reach to hear your pitch. In a small to mid-sized organization this is likely the CEO or perhaps a COO or SVP.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2021

Every entrepreneur tries to maximize his startup growth by building and selling more product and services for the widest geographic area that he can support. Building through internal development, or organic growth, makes the most sense when you have a core set of skilled internal resources. Add basic partner contracts or alliances.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This is the time to elevate those insights to the level of highest value for the corporation, one that cannot be listed on a balance sheet nor included in an appraisal of corporate worth. How much time do you devote to each type of activity? That last 10% is most important and often overlooked.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

While we are revisiting the issues raised by my (newly revised) book, Extending the Runway , we should examine the challenges to a CEO in making use of enterprise time, one of its most valuable and often misused assets. So this issue becomes one to be dealt with by every manager at every level of the organization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2020

I believe these principles, paraphrased here, should be adopted by every entrepreneur struggling to accomplish innovation in a startup in any market: Innovation can come from anywhere in the organization. Some experts have long felt it is easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2022

How much of your time and focus do you spend today on building and nurturing these relationships that count? I’m not talking here about time spent promoting yourself to others, but time spent listening and learning, and making these people feel appreciated and valuable. Ask questions to find common goals and interests.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2013

If you ever want to read the great American generational immigrant business story read American Pastoral by Philip Roth, which won the Pulitzer Prize and was voted by Time Magazine as one of the best 100 books of all time. Was this the latest Chinese product to take off in the US? Extreme product passion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

A while back, I spotted a book for change management leaders in large organization, and I realized that many of the issues they face are the same as ones faced in every growing startup. Here are ten of the key questions that apply equally well to the world of startups and entrepreneurs, as they do to large organizations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2022

If an entrepreneur doesn’t find themselves in over their head at least 20% of the time, they are probably not pushing the limits, not taking enough risk, and probably not working on an idea that’s worth doing. Maybe it’s time to find an advisor, or a board member with the right connections. Letting a sense of entitlement show through.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Over time you start to figure out who you customers are and how to sell to them or how to get them to adopt your products if you’re a consumer-oriented startup. how to build an initial sales organization. how to market our products and company. how to build an initial sales organization. Mentorship.

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Southern California Edison Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Productive offices get more done—their workers complete projects faster and bring in more revenue for their organizations. Below you will find several techniques managers can use to encourage office productivity: . Below you will find several techniques managers can use to encourage office productivity: .

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 21, 2023

You can just reject the components, especially if coming from an outside supplier, or you can get to the root of the problem by examining the cause and reengineering the process or product quickly, saving you and perhaps your supplier time and cost. Is this just your problem?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Turn Your Organization Inside Out. As organizations we have become more open and I believe this is great for businesses and their customers. In the first 4 years of running BuildOnline we were an “Outside In&# organization. The Outside In organization had a one-way flow.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

His thesis is that “A” players amount only to the top ten percent of the talent pool at any given time, and that your job is to find, recruit and retain only “A” players to make a successful business. It is hard to argue with that. How this reflects upon you and the senior team.

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Berkonomics

MAY 23, 2013

If it takes eighteen months to get a new product out the door and into the market, and if a product’s gross margin is ten dollars but the corporate overhead is a million a month, it will take the sale of 67,000 more units to break even than if it were to take only six months to market. Most of us are quick to worry over cutting costs.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

I internalized this phrase, recalling the many times I had partnered with customers to design new feature-functionality into my hotel computer system back when such systems were brand new to the industry. Next week we will focus upon product quality and its effects upon the organization. We have explored feature-functionality.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2020

Here are some key principles that I recommend to keep you on a track to maximum business results in the shortest period of time, in the unstructured world of startups: Don’t do “easy” tasks before “challenging” ones. You may see this as a quick way to shorten your task list, but it usually means that important things don’t get done on time.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 25, 2014

He has gone from simply selling books online to offering consumers tens of thousands of products. Not satisfied with conquering the online retail world, Amazon then productized access to its infrastructure, ushering in the era of the public cloud. Amazon''s Founder, Jeff Bezos has had an incredible entrepreneurial career.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2015

Today’s customers demand more than a good product; they expect a great customer experience. People love Apple’s whole customer experience, and willingly pay a premium for the product. Much has been written about product design, but designing the total experience from the front rarely happens yet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2022

Whole Foods , for example, has built their business with a commitment to natural and organic foods, and have a culture of loyal employees and customers, resulting in 500 stores worldwide. Relationships are key to happiness and productivity. Remember that actions speak louder than words, and your evident leadership role is the key here.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

When the Los Angeles-based startup Maslo launched its first product in early 2018 , the company was focused on a direct-to-consumer tool designed to encourage mindfulness and self-awareness through a machine learning enabled avatar that would respond to individual’s inputs.

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Berkonomics

JULY 7, 2022

But if you have no time or are impatient, here are the three levels: visionary, strategic and tactical. And each of us tasked with a senior role in an enterprise should dedicate some amount of time to just this. Another leadership development bit? The conundrum of competing needs. Visionary leadership is not performed in a vacuum.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2019

This contextual focus is critical to innovation and survival – the right product at the right time. It starts at the top with the founder and CEO, but has to extend quickly to the bottom of the organization. People have to have the right attitude, and make the choice from the beginning to be ready to change at any time.

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This has significantly reduced the time team members spend searching for information, enabling them to stay focused on their core tasks. Enhancing Front-End Product Search We also developed a front-end search tool that revolutionized the way users search for products. or "How can I modify my direct deposit account?"

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2019

Is your marketing focus product-centric or customer-centric ? If you only sell products, it’s time to realize that times have changed. With a wealth of products now available, customers look for the most memorable experience , not just the best product. Omitting lifetime value beyond dollars and cents.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 21, 2011

Finding Founder Time. In order to help the Founders in this process, I asked them to identify the Dirty Dozen tasks to which they consistently allotted most of their time. A list of the CTO’s dozen most time-consumptive tasks is shown below. A = Product Strategy. D = Overseeing Product/Feature Stories. Competency.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Coffee, wine, quiet time, showers…. There’s an advantage to smaller, more agile creative organizations, even if it is an organization of one person. This leads us back to coffee and wine, and showers, and quiet time. Wouldn’t that be empowering and productive? How it occurs in large companies….

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

However, to be a great VC you have to hold two conflicting ideas in your head at the same time. On the other hand, the biggest winners will turn out to be much larger than the prices people paid for them and this will happen faster than at any time in human history. How our VC Firms Like Ours Organizing to Meet the Challenges?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2011

San Diego-based Websense is taking aim at all of those time-wasting, viral videos your employees have been forwarding around, with its security software.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Studies of software teams, for example, show differences as great as ten to one in productivity between working team members. Much has been written about the external influences of office environments, motivation, and personal health impacts, but I see evidence that there are personal productivity tactics that contribute just as much.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Other times, people with personal agendas or personal dislikes of other individuals will disrupt the harmony of an office environment with negative statements, rumors, and damning comments. We’ve all seen this unhealthy form of human activity in an office environment at one time or another. Personal agendas in the workplace?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Angel investors and venture capitalists are looking for startups with real products and a proven business model, ready to scale. This early stage is often called basic research , well before any specific commercially viable products might be envisioned. Commercial product prototypes. Product verification and clinical trials.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2022

As a business advisor, I have too often seen technical entrepreneurs get a product or service off the ground with ease, but then struggle mightily when their business reaches a couple of million in annual sales, or the employee count grows beyond a handful. Spend more time on the future than today.

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