Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Of course, every lifestyle entrepreneur wants their business to be “successful,” but I find that the definition of success and the expectations along the way differs from that usually associated with what I call “growth startups.” If your passion is customers, you definitely will be happier as a lifestyle entrepreneur.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2021

The best part of being an entrepreneur is having the independence to make your own decisions, the flexibility for a better work/life balance, and personal satisfaction from driving change. By definition, the world of startups today is one of rapidly changing unknowns, where the inputs you receive will often conflict. Marty Zwilling.

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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. As you look at your entrepreneur goals, make sure you are following your own definition of success that gives you pride and passion in its pursuit. Fortunately, both can be fixed. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2020

Personal satisfaction also ranked close behind, with 70 percent of respondents claiming it was a key advantage to running their own business. This indicates that lifestyle and satisfaction factors are often more important than financial ones. By definition, if you see the rewards here as outweighing the risks, you are an entrepreneur.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

According to most definitions, an entrepreneur is one who envisions a new and different business, meaning one that is not a copy of an existing business model. Every entrepreneur needs to compare his strengths and aspirations to this business mindset: Satisfaction from business success versus the big idea.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 3, 2020

The prospects of augmented and virtual reality may be uncertain, but what’s definite is the need for new tools and technologies to transfer knowledge and train up employees as skilled, experienced workers age out of the workforce — and the development of new skills becomes critically important as technology changes the workplace.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2022

In every case, a partner can be an asset, bringing new skills and perspectives to the business; or a burden, making every decision more difficult, and taxing your lifestyle satisfaction. Beware of signs of a negative attitude or depression, as these can affect your business results, as well as your personal satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

I’m definitely a proponent of this latter approach. I see no reason not to balance these frustrations with the satisfaction of more conventional work accomplishments and the people relationships we all need to thrive. Startups cost money but don’t pay a salary before revenue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2022

They are not having the impact they expected, and they are not feeling the personal satisfaction they need for next level motivation. Your team will quickly sense your insights and sincerity , leading to greater impact and satisfaction by everyone. This is a tough challenge for every coach and mentor.

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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. As you look at your entrepreneur goals, make sure you are following your own definition of success that gives you pride and passion in its pursuit. Fortunately, both can be fixed. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2020

According to most definitions, an entrepreneur is one who envisions a new and different business, meaning one that is not a copy of an existing business model. Every entrepreneur needs to compare his strengths and aspirations to this business mindset: Satisfaction from business success versus the big idea.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2022

Set a definite task completion date and a follow-up system. It will inspire loyalty, provide real satisfaction for work done, and become the basis for mentoring and performance reviews. Think back to when you were learning, when you were a neophyte. Establish a specific deadline at the beginning, with milestones.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2021

By definition, all of you entrepreneurs are leaders, by taking the initiative to start a new company. For you the payback is the satisfaction of greater impact, as well as new career opportunities. Yet I have learned over the years as a startup advisor that all business leaders are not the same. The time to get started is now.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2022

Investors will demand clear channel definitions. Then there is the follow-up to provide customer support and satisfaction. Channels have to be identified through which a startup creates awareness, induces evaluation, enables purchase, and executes the delivery of the value proposition. Customer relationships. Key partners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2023

Everyone wins when more efficient work on the right items results in higher customer satisfaction, lower prices, and more profit per employee. That’s the definition of a win-win opportunity. As an A-Player or an entrepreneur, the focus of work must not be on hours spent, but time and cost savings without micro-management.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Begin with the end in mind - your definition of success based on your principles. You won’t be effective centering your life around someone else’s view of success, satisfaction, and happiness. Keep commitments, with no excuses. Make personal life goals drive the business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2021

In addition to saying yes too often, professionals under pressure often say no poorly, by attacking the requestor or by avoiding any definitive response. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2021

In the past, if your startup had a website presence, the company was credible by definition. Follow-up for customer satisfaction. Smart potential customers only visit and buy from credible and memorable websites. In today’s world, a website is necessary but not sufficient for credibility. Professional user-friendly site design.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2022

Problem solving may be a required skill, but it’s definitely one that can be learned, and perfectionism can be un-learned, independent of your IQ or book smarts (there may even be an inverse relationship here). The best part of the entrepreneur problem-solving lifestyle is that it can bring satisfaction and happiness to your work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 9, 2021

You get great satisfaction from overcoming all obstacles, and you have no problem with living or dying by your own decisions. The recent pandemic has definitely opened up opportunities for new products, and skilled people at lower costs are abundant. It does mean you have a compelling new business idea, and a willingness to face risk.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Everyone wins when more efficient work on the right items results in higher customer satisfaction, lower prices, and more profit per employee. That’s the definition of a win-win opportunity. As an A-Player or an entrepreneur, the focus of work must not be on hours spent, but time and cost savings without micro-management.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2020

As a long-time business executive and adviser to entrepreneurs, I see a definitive shift away from customer trust in traditional business messages, and the executives who deliver them. For trust, they look online to see how you handle real support and satisfaction issues. They want the raw data versus a polished message.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Before you start down the long hard road of an entrepreneur, it pays to look inside yourself to see what you love to do, and what would fit your definition of success. In my experience, you will have the most satisfaction and success if you can combine a strong sense of “purpose” with a quantifiable business opportunity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2022

In the interest of helping first-time entrepreneurs, as well as existing business executives, keep their sanity as well as their focus, I offer the following pragmatic suggestions for dealing with the triple bottom line requirements: Sort out your personal definition of success first.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2021

As I work with aspiring you new venture leaders, I always wish I had a definitive checklist of all the right attributes that I could share with you, encourage you to develop and highlight in your efforts with potential investors, and guide your own actions in starting the next billion dollar company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2021

By definition, no human or any business is perfect, so achieving perfection is unrealistic and doomed to failure. Success in execution is all about productivity – more time, more money, more customers, and more satisfaction. Hire an expert, if required, to automate repetitive tasks. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Satisfaction and commitment come from choosing a path to move forward, evaluation results and customer feedback, and learning from all their best efforts. Make sure you schedule time for regular customer visits, and make sure your team understands that providing value to more customers is your definition of growing the business.

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Berkonomics

MAY 2, 2013

The definition of a bottleneck in your business is one that constricts the flow of work from one area to another in the flow of product or service through your organization. The effect of your action is magnified several-fold at the output stage of your business, leading to increased customer satisfaction and increased profits.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2019

I'm definitely happier as an entrepreneur, which is why I made the leap. But, I think, the vision, the mission, working with my friends and people I care about, and building a company I believe in, has a lot of intrinsic value and satisfaction. How has it been as a startup founder? Ian Chen: It's completely different.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2019

It definitely pays to get some help with your first step into social media, since first impressions often become lasting ones. Jumping in haphazardly with poorly a focused message is definitely non-productive, and may harm your business. This required mix must be reviewed and updated as your brand matures.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

By definition, an entrepreneur is the first to undertake a given business, and firsts never happen without problems and people frustrations. The real entrepreneurs I know are good at overcoming both people problems and business obstacles, and get satisfaction from the challenge.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2020

I’m not suggesting that you abandon traditional advertising and image building efforts, but definitely it’s time to supplement them to address the following changes that I recommend: Meeting next generation expectations is key to survival. Supplement this feedback with more formal modern satisfaction surveys, like the Net Promoter Score.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2013

By definition, an entrepreneur is the first to undertake a given business, and firsts never happen without problems and people frustrations. The real entrepreneurs I know are good at overcoming both people problems and business obstacles, and get satisfaction from the challenge.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2015

As a team member, low self-esteem leads to low confidence, poor productivity, and no job satisfaction. As you look at your entrepreneur goals, make sure you are following your own definition of success that gives you pride and passion in its pursuit. Fortunately, both can be fixed. Marty Zwilling.

Entrepreneur 102

Entrepreneur Startup Satisfaction Competition 102

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2012

By definition, an entrepreneur is the first to undertake a given business, and firsts never happen without problems and people frustrations. The real entrepreneurs I know are good at overcoming both people problems and business obstacles, and get satisfaction from the challenge.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

As a team member, low self-esteem leads to low confidence, poor productivity, and no job satisfaction. As you look at your entrepreneur goals, make sure you are following your own definition of success that gives you pride and passion in its pursuit. Fortunately, both can be fixed. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2019

I suspect it’s a function of pride and confidence in my own problem solving abilities, but my hesitation has definitely cost me time and money. I get much more satisfaction, and can provide more realistic help, in steering you through specific pricing, organizational, or competitive challenges you face.

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