Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2022

I saw some real guidance in the classic book by Loc de Brabandere and Alan Iny, “ Thinking in New Boxes.” For example, if it’s getting harder to charge a price premium for the product you’re marketing, or others are offering your subscription service for free, it may be time to start thinking in a new box.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2019

I saw this message illustrated well in a new book, “ Innovation Capital ,” by Jeff Dyer, Nathan Furr, and Curtis Lefrandt, who all have excellent credentials in the real world of business, as well as the academic world, through their innovation consultancy and access to key business leaders. The cycle repeats.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2015

That’s productivity. That is a huge hit on productivity. For insight, I recommend the details provided in a new book “ The 5 Choices: The Path to Extraordinary Productivity, ” by Kory Kogon, Adam Merrill, and Leena Rinne. Practice productivity planning with your key team members. That’s extraordinary productivity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2021

That’s productivity. That is a huge hit on productivity. For insight, I recommend the details provided in the classic book “ The 5 Choices: The Path to Extraordinary Productivity, ” by Kory Kogon, Adam Merrill, and Leena Rinne. Practice productivity planning with your key team members. Why is this so hard?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

When entrepreneurs introduce new products to the market, their passion and conviction often leads them to assume that every potential customer will see the immediate need and value, and will quickly adopt the solution. Yet most of the startups I see these days are providing a solution that is easier to use, more fun, or more productive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2017

Not so long ago, every business assumed that the keys to success were the highest quality product, the best value for the buck, and the best customer service. I like the insights outlined in a more recent book “ Summit ,” by F. Exploit your product and service differences. Entrepreneur of the Year” finalist.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

That great productivity drain that we somehow all buy into. I shifted my thinking a few years ago after I read Tim Ferris’s book The Four Hour Workweek (link is to a short summary I wrote). I try to bucket my tasks into major categories and spend some time doing each of them. ” Brilliant! Is that OK? I think so. [I

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2022

Lewis, author of the timeless book “ Why Flip A Coin? This is a problem with many product-based companies. Their goal is to create profitable products, but too often they don’t research what their customers really want, and what they are willing to pay. It's difficult to create a high-demand product by guessing.

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socalTECH

MAY 22, 2013

Online business resource site Docstoc is in a big expansion of its services today, with the launch of a brand new service to help businesses connect with products and vendors. A key part of ExpertCircle is the peer reviews, from both other users and experts, on different vendors and products in a category.

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Tech.Co

MAY 26, 2020

Since April 21, Amazon has slashed its rates across a wide range of product categories, in some cases dropping as much as 70%. Here are some of the top options available in 2020 to anyone who wants to earn a living or a side hustle by recommending products online. Amazon started with books, so we will too. The impact?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

In that context, I was pleased with the guidance and real data presented in a new book, “ Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution ,” by Uri Levine. You have to cater to many different user categories. The biggest challenge is that a user from one category can’t even realize that there are other users not like them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2022

In his classic book, “ Digital Context 2.0: His study breaks the online consumer audience into the following four categories, based on their level of comfort with sharing personal information, likes, and needs online: High-comfort consumers – 12 percent. Norton, Ph.D., Norton, Ph.D., Reluctant consumers – 44 percent.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The most memorable businesses, like Starbucks and Apple, no longer sell products, they sell ‘experiences’ with a product at the center. The challenge is to transform and hardwire your entire team to think in these terms, rather than the default focus on distinct towers of product quality, closing the sale, or fixing a complaint.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Trying to do everything is a sure way to maximize stress, lower job satisfaction, and minimize productivity. If you are a genius at invention, for example, then that is the role you should seek to keep you motivated and productive. We all need to play to our strengths, and team with others for complementary needs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2016

That’s productivity. That is a huge hit on productivity. For insight, I recommend the details provided in a recent book “ The 5 Choices: The Path to Extraordinary Productivity, ” by Kory Kogon, Adam Merrill, and Leena Rinne. Practice productivity planning with your key team members. Why is this so hard?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2023

When entrepreneurs introduce new products to the market, their passion and conviction often leads them to assume that every potential customer will see the immediate need and value, and will quickly adopt the solution. Yet most of the startups I see these days are providing a solution that is easier to use, more fun, or more productive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

I also recommend the app development strategies outlined in the classic book, “ Vaporized: Solid Strategies for Success in a Dematerialized World ,” by Robert Tercek, who has lived on the digital edge for many years. Commoditize complementary products. Offer premium services after user is hooked. Look for value points to control.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

When entrepreneurs introduce new products to the market, their passion and conviction often leads them to assume that every potential customer will see the immediate need and value, and will quickly adopt the solution. Yet most of the startups I see these days are providing a solution that is easier to use, more fun, or more productive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 24, 2020

I found some good guidance that supports my own view in this regard in a new book, “ Startup Myths and Models ,” by Rizwan Virk, who has been there and done that. Now the emergence of autonomous and driverless vehicles fits into this nascent future potential category. I don’t recommend an expectation of funding on that one just yet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2023

The most valuable assets of a new startup are the people on the team, and the most challenging task of the entrepreneur and team leaders is to spend their leadership time and energy productively. The authors define a leadership matrix of four behavioral categories and eight team member subtypes. Steamrollers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2021

In reality, the picture is a bit larger than this, as outlined in the classic book “ Leading with GRIT ,” by Laurie Sudbrink, a well-known business leadership coach and speaker. Usually the real culprit is procrastination, lack of focus, or low productivity and lack of metrics. Wait and hope for a miracle.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2022

There are hundreds of consultants out there who will take your money for guidance in this area, but I recommend that you start with some free resources on the Internet, or one of the many recent books on this topic. Assess social media relevance to your product or service. These days, video production is also a useful skill.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2021

I have always assumed that strong work relationships are the key to productivity, as well as you feeling good and having fun at work. If you are in this category, I recommend you take a look at a new book, “ Work Better Together ,” by Jen Fisher and Anh Phillips. Longer work hours mean greater productivity.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

Turn on your phone and look at the productivity folder. Kind of like a disarrayed choose your own adventure book about your life. You’ll be more productive within three weeks time. We discuss productivity, emails, communication, and the dynamics of the team. We’ve been there. We’ve all been there.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). ” So Ethan went to work as a product manager at Google Video. So I asked Ethan to build his product first and then we would fund.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2020

The most memorable businesses, like Starbucks and Apple, no longer sell products, they sell ‘experiences’ with a product at the center. The challenge is to transform and hardwire your entire team to think in these terms, rather than the default focus on distinct towers of product quality, closing the sale, or fixing a complaint.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2020

In his classic book, “ Digital Context 2.0: His latest study breaks the online consumer audience into the following four categories, based on their level of comfort with sharing personal information, likes, and needs online: High-comfort consumers – 12 percent. Norton, Ph.D., Norton, Ph.D., Reluctant consumers – 44 percent.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2012

The new app allows users to browse for deals via a map, lists, or by category and expiration date. The new app is a natural extension for PriceGrabber, which is used by consumers for price comparisons and searching for the best deals on all sorts of products, including electronics, cameras, computers, and books.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

I saw some real guidance in the classic book by Loc de Brabandere and Alan Iny, “ Thinking in New Boxes.” For example, if it’s getting harder to charge a price premium for the product you’re marketing, or others are offering your subscription service for free, it may be time to start thinking in a new box.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2022

According to the classic book by serial entrepreneur and former race car driver Tom Panaggio, “ The Risk Advantage: Embracing the Entrepreneur's Unexpected Edge ,” smart business owners embrace two essential risks to every opportunity – decision and change. My conclusion either way is that they have no market, or haven’t looked.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2022

Every company needs this focus to attract the best minds and loyalty in both categories. I can think of at least five ways that this benefits the business, as well as customers: Products in a purpose culture more readily sell at a premium price. Companies with a purpose culture have more productive teams.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2021

A few years ago, I first saw an interesting step in that direction via the classic book “ Entrepreneurial DNA ,” by Joe Abraham , with his assessment web site. Some might say that Elon Musk epitomizes this category. The challenge with an Innovator is to focus as hard on the business realities as the product possibilities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2022

If you are not in that rare category of known and proven entrepreneurs, you should avoid the following list of my top ten turnoffs that I have personally experienced as an angel investor. Investors are buying part of the business, not the product or service. I don’t have a business plan, but the technology is disruptive.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2022

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Yet very few achieve that great aspiration of really driving economic, social, and environmental changes on a global scale.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

She created and launched an overall brand and a swim collection , then came the book deal ( “This is Not a Fashion Story: Taking Chances, Breaking Rules, and Being a Boss in the Big City” is expected out May 2020). Last month, the product launched with $1.2 With new followers — today her account, @weworewhat , has 2.2

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2023

I found a good summary of the bad habits that can cause failures to finish in a recent book, “ How to Finish Everything You Start ,” by Jan Yager. The antidotes include buffering your plan, rewarding every finish, and scheduling the work at the most productive part of you day. Underestimating your actual task completion times.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2012

If you are in this second category, you probably don’t like the references behind your back that you are a “control freak” or a “micro-manager.” Jan Yager, in her book “ Work Less, Do More ,” has outlined several key steps to effective delegation: Choose what tasks you are willing to delegate.

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