TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

I bring my passion for numbers to the classroom every day, drawing from my experience to inspire my students. Maybe those references to TFA sound like bragging, or he thinks “passion for numbers” sounds silly. Share your daily drive, such as creating engaging math lessons, and how your experience aids this.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2022

We are living in a new generation of business, where customers drive the experience, and highly engaged employees are required to keep up with customer expectations. Their experience as executive coaches and entrepreneurs gives real credibility to their assessment of some new leadership approaches that are required in business today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Make sure everyone accurately posts their role with your startup on social media profiles, resumes, and references. Visit reference customers, partners, and vendors. For reference, here is a quick summary of key elements which most investors include in their due diligence process: Key personnel review.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

According to The Atlantic, NASA administrator James Bridenstine specifically launched a safety review of SpaceX due to Musk's antics on the Joe Rogan Experience, where he smoked marijuana and drank whiskey on a podcast.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 19, 2020

The group agreed that this is an excellent process, engaging the entire team and members’ experience to explore the unknown. What if that threat is outside of the experience of anyone in the room? Broadening our frame of reference. But what if no-one thinks of the right questions? What if no one knows what to ask?

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Your first customers for any product or service form your reference base, the important group of allies that your marketing and salespeople rely upon when attempting to create buzz and make a mass market for a new product. Greatly exceed expectations at all costs. So, empower your staff. Make sure your entire staff buys into this mantra.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2022

Today’s customer buying dynamics are all about “user experience,” according to Brian Solis, in his classic book “ What’s the Future of Business? ”. Solis outlines the heuristics of social psychology that are key to building positive customer experiences today. Ultimate Moment of Truth. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Of course, we never see ourselves in this mode, yet we need to recognize that all humans see reality differently through a built-in set of “cognitive biases,” based on their own unique background of experiences, training, and mental state. In my experience, a great startup is more about great execution, rather than a great idea.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2021

Make sure everyone accurately posts their role with your startup on social media profiles, resumes, and references. Visit reference customers, partners, and vendors. For reference, here is a quick summary of key elements which most investors include in their due diligence process: Key personnel review.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

As tech conferences go, I have certain friends that might refer to such an event as “ Salaryman Con.” Why aren’t more companies capturing this kind of information to deliver a more personalized experience to their customers and/or prospects? The post Marketing Crushes Customer Experience through Data.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2021

I have summarized or paraphrased the points here, to add my own focus and experience with new entrepreneurs and startups: Be forever curious and an optimist. Context comes from experience. Trying and failing is an experience building-block to get context. Great entrepreneurs aren’t just dreamers, they are doers.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 30, 2021

And these were emotional experiences to say the least. Email readers, continue here…] We who invest look for patterns from previous experience. I volunteered to do this several times when there was no-one else, even the founders, to do this. We ask ourselves “what if?”. or “I learned about flying from that.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2023

These authors speak from a wealth of experience as investors, entrepreneurs, and environmentalists. I will summarize these here, adding insights from my own experience in business: Great questions generate the best insights. Constantly experimenting through trial and error. Enlist the collective intelligence of the crowd.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

The startup, part of the StartEngine accelerator, asks users a series of questions around different topics -- things like security deposits, wills, gun control -- helping users to learn more about different topics, and also referring them to more detailed information sources and lawyers.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

This is not necessarily the way we intend to behave as managers, but our headline reflects the reality of most experiences when viewed in retrospect. We carefully vet the potential hire for experience required. Should we be so abrupt as to consider letting someone go based upon their lack of a good fit within the organization?

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Entrepreneurs will have a relative willing to devote time, a school friend with business experience, professionals who charge for the service, investors with a reason to promote your success and more. Business coaches come in all sizes and shapes. Photo courtesy IBM Business Coaching. Original 1994 book.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 25, 2011

With ImTech ’s “Era of Experience” night, the focus was on the building of not just businesses and projects, but the expansion of a whole new industry. The term Immersive technology refers to technologies that bridge the gap between the physical and digital world. ImTech: Era of Experience Part 2.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Yet the company is probably deriving some consolation for the commercial woes with Dengvaxia from the leg up the experience has given it with the development of a vaccine against Zika virus. Both dengue and Zika are flaviviruses that behave similarly in the lab and interact with the immune system in similar ways.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2021

Of course experience is the best teacher, but you need to get the job to get the experience. But there are many other items you should have in your "career tool kit" – good online profiles, accomplishment stories, positioning statement, contact list, professional references, letters of recommendation, and more.

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Berkonomics

JULY 22, 2021

We acknowledge that some employees lose their drive, or remain behind as the company grows, failing to gain the experience or knowledge needed to manage expanded processes or numbers of subordinates. It is human nature to hire as quickly as possible, to reduce the time taken from a busy day for interviews and reference checking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2023

A successful services business, more than a product business, comes from a skill or insight that you have honed from experience. The customer experience is more than the service. Make sure that every interaction with every customer is positive, the service delivered is exemplary, and always follow-up for reference and repeat business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2021

I don’t have any big scientific studies to prove this, but in my considerable business experience, I haven’t seen many successes come out of a group of fearful pessimists or unhappy people. This is what we refer to when we say “thinking outside the box”. Rather than treating the mistakes as failures, think of them as fun experiments.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Every startup needs a couple of advisors with deep experience and connections in your business domain or financial skills to complement your technical focus. Do advisor credentials include practical experience in the domain? So before you sign up, it pays to check references or peers who have worked with them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Workships, according to workplace expert Dr. Jan Yager, refers to those workplace relationships that haven’t yet developed into full-blown friendships, but are closer than mere acquaintances. In my experience, even the best technology and business model won’t succeed without successful relationships.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

Because the hundreds of millions that it takes to greenlight a theatrical film could never be absorbed by a startup and because they way we experience media & characters has evolved dramatically over the past 20 years to a point where the starting point for media is often digital, gaming or even graphic novel oriented.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2017

Your first customers for any product or service form your reference base, the important group of allies that your marketing and sales people rely upon when attempting to create buzz and make a mass market for a new product. Greatly exceed expectations at all costs. Make sure your entire staff buys into this mantra.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2022

Nevertheless, there is nothing wrong with studying and learning from the wisdom and experience of others. The next phase of evolution will demand device independence, enabling an uninterrupted computing experience as we move from device to device throughout our daily lives. Cloud Computing. Gamification.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2023

Their real value is your access to senior advisors with experience, and other startups in the same stage. Once you have some traction, you can approach venture capital organizations , with funding amounts of $1-10 million for the real rollout, often referred to as the “A-round,” or first institutional funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2022

Very few entrepreneurs have the range of skills and experience to be the solution creator as well as business creator, or operational as well as sales leader. Brings complementary skills and experience. Thus you should do the same or more due diligence on educational background, previous work, and references.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2022

These authors reference real cases and real business leaders, based on their decades of experience in building companies and executive coaching. I offer here their summary of purposes and inspirations that have motivated existing business leaders, with insights from my own mentoring and coaching experience.

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Berkonomics

MAY 9, 2013

The group agreed that this is an excellent process, engaging the entire team and members’ experience to explore the unknown. What if that threat is outside of the experience of anyone in the room? Our frame of reference must be as broad as possible when asking “what if” questions to protect our future.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Another approach is to ask the investor for references, where their involvement has made a real difference, leading to success. Look for investor experience in your business domain, as well as evidence of integrity and trustworthiness. Personally visit another startup funded by this investor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2022

Yet I find the people building teams are usually product experts, often with no experience in team building. Give priority to attitude over experience. Often times, candidates with more years of experience are frustrated and unproductive in these environments, and are looking for structure and consistency.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Boss Reference - Your potential boss will check your references. Even if the reference did not work directly with your future manager, they may still have valuable insights that would otherwise be impossible for you to uncover during the interview process. You should do the same.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

A successful services business, more than a product business, comes from a skill or insight that you have honed from experience. The customer experience is more than the service. Make sure that every interaction with every customer is positive, the service delivered is exemplary, and always follow-up for reference and repeat business.

Startup 174

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

We all come to the workplace with different experiences and a different set of values. Write down your key goals and refer to this list before any interaction with your colleague. Experiment with alternatives to find what works. Look for patience and more subtle ways to influence their views and actions to meet your needs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2022

In my experience, mistakes in business are an expensive and painful way to learn, and in these days of rapid change, you just can’t afford the time to recover. The result is low productivity, mistakes, and poor customer experiences. Your business image will spiral downward. Do your homework on new investors, partners, and vendors.

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