Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2022

Perhaps sparked by the recent pandemic, I’m seeing a new era of the entrepreneur, with startups springing up all around. Problems will occur in every startup, simply because you are stepping into uncharted territory. Don’t let it make your startup dysfunctional in resolving future challenges.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Young entrepreneurs and startups, in particular, often remain naively unfocused, despite their passion, of what it takes to provide the high-quality service expected. It’s a tough job, and inexperienced entrepreneurs just don’t know where to start, and how to do it. Yet the average perception of customer experience has not improved.

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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. I will outline here his six required activities of every successful business to get you started down the right path for you: Wonder: identify the value and need for change. I recommend that you start online to find data sources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2022

Most entrepreneurs struggle with many startup founders quandaries in building their business, and these key dilemmas are probably the biggest source of pain and failure for the entrepreneur lifestyle. People may jump into the lifestyle to be their own boss, achieve great wealth, start a new trend, or all the above.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

After many years working in business and investing in startups, I’m convinced that the primary reason for new business and career failures is NOT a lack of skill or money, but people giving up too quickly on their dreams and goals. He went on to start many successful companies, including General Electric.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2021

He suggests you begin with the “big three” business objectives of higher revenue, reduced costs, and improved customer satisfaction. That’s real-time market research, and you need to measure how well you are hearing it and acting on it in your business strategy planning. Get attention and reach your audience. Project the future.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2020

Unfortunately, many entrepreneurs seem to prefer to fail their way to the top, rather than do some research and learn from the successes and mistakes of others. As an advisor to many startups, I’m convinced it’s an expensive and painful approach, but I do see it used all too often. You may be dead wrong. Over-promise and under-deliver.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2021

Young entrepreneurs and startups, in particular, often remain naively unfocused, despite their passion, of what it takes to provide the high-quality service expected. It’s a tough job, and inexperienced entrepreneurs just don’t know where to start, and how to do it. Yet the average perception of customer experience has not improved.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2022

As a team member, low self-esteem leads to low confidence, poor productivity, and no job satisfaction. Current research is conclusive that self-esteem is linked to our sense of competence in the areas that are important to us. Your sense of worth should not be determined by other startups, or what you think peers expect of you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2020

One of the biggest myths in the business world is that startups are no place for Baby Boomers, that aging generation born between 1945 and 1964. Today people over 55 are almost twice as likely to create successful startups as Gen-Y, age 20 to 34. Yet credible reports on current trends tell us just the opposite.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 30, 2023

It may not be as sexy, but starting a new business which builds on an existing technology or business model is usually less risky than introducing that ultimate new disruptive technology. Many of the major business successes started this way. Many of the major business successes started this way.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2022

Almost every entrepreneur needs to improve their skills in this area, so I did some research on the basics. It always starts with trust. Set a definite task completion date and a follow-up system. In this way you can check up on progress before the final deadline, without fuzzy questions like “How are you doing?”

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2023

In my experience as a startup investor, I have become convinced that the biggest reason for business failure is giving up too early. Research indicates this alone leads to higher performance much of the time. Make your mantra one of job satisfaction and delivering customer value, rather than avoiding failure today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2022

One of the biggest myths in the business world is that startups are no place for Baby Boomers, that aging generation born between 1945 and 1964. Today people over 55 are almost twice as likely to create successful startups as Gen-Y, age 20 to 34. Yet credible reports on current trends tell us just the opposite.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2010

You hear a lot of talk these days about the importance of customer satisfaction, but customer loyalty is the real win. Whatever the reasons for the change, and there are many, it represents a big opportunity to the small businesses and startups who recognize it. Customers say it takes ten good experiences to make up for one bad one.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2022

High-technology product startups, without customers, don’t make a business. Most consumers now research online product reviews, blogs, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, for authoritative guidance. When these do not line up in the decision-making cycle, consumers feel true psychological discomfort. Scarcity – less is more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

It may not be as sexy, but starting a new business which builds on an existing technology or business model is usually less risky than introducing that ultimate new disruptive technology. Many of the major business successes started this way. Many of the major business successes started this way.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2019

Most entrepreneurs struggle with many startup founders quandaries in building their business, and these key dilemmas are probably the biggest source of pain and failure for the entrepreneur lifestyle. People may jump into the lifestyle to be their own boss, achieve great wealth, start a new trend, or all the above.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2020

a leading researcher on consumer behavior and the impact of digital, reports that decision makers, social media users, and younger demographics are more and more comfortable sharing data in order to close the gap between thought and action. In his classic book, “ Digital Context 2.0: Norton, Ph.D., No-comfort consumers – 17 percent.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2021

In some cases it may be fear of retribution by the boss, but more often they just hate to disappoint others, and end up instead with high stress and low credibility in a crisis to deliver. Be sure to follow-up as promised, to maintain your credibility. Clearly decline without using the word no. Skip the “maybes” or “I’ll try.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2014

Startup work environments are always chaos, but they can still be great environments to work in, or they can be terrible. You as the founder are the starting point and definer, so you need to get it right. I did some research on this, and compared it with my own experience. Our satisfaction is strongly driven by this role set.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

They ask me for a perspective on the pros and cons of that dream, the potential for increased satisfaction , and the probability of their long-term growth and success. There are at least three relevant groups of users to start: innovators, early adopters, and early majority. You have to cater to many different user categories.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Proof of any business model starts with a finished product or solution, sold to a new customer for full price, with high satisfaction for the value received. The conundrum is that once you have really proven the business model, you no longer need the investor money you asked for to start the business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

As a team member, low self-esteem leads to low confidence, poor productivity, and no job satisfaction. Current research is conclusive that self-esteem is linked to our sense of competence in the areas that are important to us. Your sense of worth should not be determined by other startups, or what you think peers expect of you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Most entrepreneurs see their new venture as a fun adventure, until the pressures of a cash flow crisis, or a manufacturing quality problem, or a major customer satisfaction problem hits. New competitors can steal your market, or they can open up new markets. True entrepreneurs love change – that’s why they are starting a new venture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2020

As an advisor to entrepreneurs, I find that I often have to remind them that the world of customers has changed since they started their last business. Start with employees and executives who are willing to really listen to customers, and make them do it regularly. Regularly ask your customers what they think and why.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2012

You hear a lot of talk these days about the importance of customer satisfaction, but customer loyalty is the real win. Herein lies an opportunity for startups to beat the big guys. Whatever the reasons for the change, and there are many, it represents a big opportunity to the small businesses and startups who recognize it.

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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. Do your own research and gather supporting facts, rather than firing back with emotion and gut feel. Your proposal is dismissed as being too risky.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2020

Many entrepreneurs have a passion and an idea, or even invent a new product, but are never able to execute to the point of creating a startup. Even fewer are able to grow the startup into a viable business. Market research and a business plan should be the focus at this stage. Startup and development stage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Startup work environments are always chaos, but they can still be great environments to work in, or they can be terrible. You as the founder are the starting point and definer, so you need to get it right. I did some research on this, and compared it with my own experience. Our satisfaction is strongly driven by this role set.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2020

No matter what people may proclaim, everyone in business is looking to achieve the highest possible level of satisfaction and financial success in their career. Many researchers conclude that more than 60 percent of employees at large corporations are not committed to their business. Committed to the success of the company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

For early-stage startups, the goodwill component can easily exceed the size of all the financial elements together, or can just as easily mark a company with good financials as not investable. For startups, the entrepreneur and founder is almost always the face of the company. Performance accountability processes. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2013

Young entrepreneurs and startups, in particular, often remain naively unfocused, despite their passion, of what it takes to provide the high-quality service expected. It’s a tough job, and inexperienced entrepreneurs just don’t know where to start, and how to do it. entrepreneur startup customer service business'

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 9, 2019

Startup work environments are always chaos, but they can still be great environments to work in, or they can be terrible. You as the founder are the starting point and definer, so you need to get it right. I did some research on this, and compared it with my own experience. Our satisfaction is strongly driven by this role set.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2016

It may not be as sexy, but starting a new business which builds on an existing technology or business model is usually less risky than introducing that ultimate new disruptive technology. Many of the major business successes started this way. Many of the major business successes started this way.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2019

Almost every entrepreneur needs to improve their skills in this area, so I did some research on the basics. It always starts with trust. Set a definite task completion date and a follow-up system. In this way you can check up on progress before the final deadline, without fuzzy questions like “How are you doing?”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2022

A common misconception I often hear in the startup world is that non-profits are easy and safe, since they don’t have to pay taxes, and they don’t have to make a profit for their shareholders. You can start an LLC for-profit in less than a month, often for less than $100. unless it relies wholly on donations.

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