Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2020

New business models that provide an ongoing revenue stream, or a secondary stream from advertising, raise your margins and can give you some additional satisfaction. Watch that patent provide a real barrier to competitive entry. This may also be the moment when you get your first big acquisition offer, rather than a clone appearing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2023

Porter proposed his Five Forces framework for analyzing the competitive environment which I think makes even more sense today. Every existing business, as well as every startup, needs to reassess their product or service in the context of these five forces: Intensity of competitive rivalry. Way back in 1979, Michael E.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 12, 2010

Los Angeles-based video game rental service GameFly is seeing more competition from video rental firm Blockbuster this week, after its competitor announced that it is expanding its online movie rental service to include video games.

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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. A satisfied customer is necessary, but not sufficient, to be a loyal customer who will come back repeatedly, refer their friends and family to you, and be faithful even when your price is not the lowest.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2010

Due in large part to the current economy and an ultra-competitive job market, a Gen-Y entrepreneurial tsunami is already upon us. Satisfaction vs. Stress. Or, perhaps the hectic “get me coffee” and “make me copies” chores associated with climbing the corporate ladder. That stereotype may be changing. to pull their weight.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2014

We feel pressure to hit milestones for a variety of reasons: Investor presentations, conference demos, customer sales meetings, competitive pressures, a need to drive revenue, business development commitments – whatever. CEOs are time-driven creatures.

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Berkonomics

JULY 26, 2012

One designer, one engineer, one developer seeking to achieve a degree of perfection to meet a personal level of satisfaction is capable of derailing an entire complex project. And yet, who would not want the highest quality product to place into a competitive marketplace? Who would not want a “better” component or product?

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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. Beat the competition and discover yourself. Choosing entrepreneurship is no exception.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2021

People-centric leaders realize that the right motivated and accountable people are their real competitive advantage. Your team, properly selected, trained, and engaged, can focus on tomorrow’s requirements, learn from mistakes, and implement the constant improvements required to stay competitive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

New business models that provide an ongoing revenue stream, or a secondary stream from advertising, raise your margins and can give you some additional satisfaction. Watch that patent provide a real barrier to competitive entry. This may also be the moment when you get your first big acquisition offer, rather than a clone appearing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2022

Outbehave Your Competition to Create Customers for Life ,” offers eight key principles for defining and managing the experience to keep it consistent and profitable: Keep every employee on stage, delivering an experience. They have to out-behave and outperform your competition. No more gamed employee satisfaction surveys.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 3, 2020

We share Talespin ’s vision that the workforce needs innovative solutions to stay competitive, maximize opportunity and increase employee satisfaction,” said Jason Gold, Vice President of Finance, Corporate Development and Investor Relations at Cornerstone, in a statement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

Many startups and mature businesses have not yet accepted the fact that customer satisfaction and loyalty in this “always connected” age are about more than product and service quality. But to engender loyalty, you have to be delivering a good experience and keeping satisfaction high. Customer upsell: Sell more to existing customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2020

For new entrepreneurs and startups, I recommend an initial focus on these six steps from the very beginning to set the right culture and save the tremendous cost of a transformation and risky competitive catch-up later: Start with an overriding top-down focus on customer experience. Find the best of the best models, and aim even higher.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Many startups and mature businesses have not yet adapted to the fact that customer satisfaction in this “always connected” age is more than product and service quality. But to engender loyalty, you have to be delivering a good experience and keep satisfaction high. Customer upsell, selling more to existing customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. You have no shelf life, so you can’t make money while you sleep.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2021

In reality, resource constraints should be seen by startups a competitive advantage, by forcing them to develop new markets, and to think differently and act differently than existing players. How entrepreneurs respond to these will become a larger and larger determinant of startup growth, competitive position, and success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

If you are looking for a lasting competitive advantage, I recommend that you follow the steps outlined here to create experiences that your customers crave. It’s not only good for your business, but it will add meaning and joy to your customers, and will also enhance your personal satisfaction and well-being.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2021

Train them fully, give them authority, make them accountable, and tie their pay to customer satisfaction. It must be understandable, written down, and verifiable, with regular measurements and metrics to make it real, benchmarked against the competition. Know your customers intimately. Make your service deliver process “happy.”

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Berkonomics

JUNE 16, 2022

We can invent lots of metrics to measure progress for a leader, including revenue, profit, employee satisfaction, cost containment, percentage of available market, and more. But there is one overwhelming method of appraising the effectiveness of a business leader. What is your leadership end game goal?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2015

New business models that provide an ongoing revenue stream, or a secondary stream from advertising, raise your margins and can give you some additional satisfaction. Watch that patent provide a real barrier to competitive entry. This may also be the moment when you get your first big acquisition offer, rather than a clone appearing.

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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. In my experience, competition is the biggest challenge here. Assess your satisfaction and ability for this type of work. We all need to play to our strengths, and team with others for complementary needs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2021

Explain that they may be called, and use the opportunity to check their satisfaction with your company and your product. This will cover the technology, the current state of development, and customer satisfaction. All need to know who will be there and what you expect. Contact key vendors and existing customers. Validation of product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2021

Unfortunately, these goals are often mutually exclusive, and focusing on the wrong ones won’t bring you that business success and satisfaction you crave. For example, Richard Branson relishes the satisfaction of initiating innovative startups, and rewarding strong team members with the opportunity to run a joint spinoff.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 10, 2012

Today, companies need every edge they can get to strive in our current competitive marketplace. Improved productivity and efficiency leading to cost reductions, easier to use services leading to increased customer satisfaction and retention, a new needed product or service that is not available anywhere else.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2021

Marketing is necessary via social media, traditional media, and personal visibility, to attract customers, loyalty, and a competitive brand image. If you enjoy wearing many different hats and are constantly learning new skills, you will get more satisfaction as an entrepreneur. Relish being a “jack of all trades,” rather than expert.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2021

The most effective leaders marshal existing resources and incent people to create innovative yet competitive solutions. True leaders don’t let their ego or competitive nature create a façade. For you the payback is the satisfaction of greater impact, as well as new career opportunities. The time to get started is now.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Risks to the business drift off their radar screen, resulting in poor business decisions, as well as less job satisfaction and declining professional success. Change allows everyone to be push the limits in response, to improve their opportunity for personal growth, improve the company competitive position and odds for long-term success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2021

Track competition to stay ahead of copycats. Don’t wait for negative momentum to alert you to new competition – recovery is much more difficult than proactively making focused changes to retain customer loyalty and repeat business. Your long-term success and satisfaction depends on it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2010

Related reasons, like personal satisfaction also ranked close behind, with 70% 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. Beat the competition. High level of excitement. The cycle never stops.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Incidentally, if you never thought of yourself as being an A-Player employee, you probably will struggle even more in the competitive entrepreneur world. In this highly competitive world, no growth means falling behind, as a business or in your career. Accept personal growth as directly related to business growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

But very quickly, it is becoming obvious to startups that the value and satisfaction exceeds the costs. Startups can use social responsibility as a competitive advantage. That’s a real competitive edge that you can use in your marketing and positioning. Socially responsible products typically sell at a premium price.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Outbehave Your Competition to Create Customers for Life ,” offers eight key principles for defining and managing the experience to keep it consistent and profitable: Keep every employee on stage, delivering an experience. They have to out-behave and outperform your competition. No more gamed employee satisfaction surveys.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2011

Personal satisfaction also ranked close behind, with 70% 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. Entrepreneurs love the continuous challenges of a startup, and the satisfaction of solving them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2021

Use this opportunity to validate their satisfaction and support for your company and your solution. A hard look will be taken at the technology maturity, the current development progress, and customer satisfaction with early product shipments. Visit reference customers, partners, and vendors. Review of opportunity and segmentation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2013

This indicates that lifestyle and satisfaction factors are usually more important than financial ones. Entrepreneurs love the continuous challenges of a startup, and the satisfaction of tackling them. Beat the competition. Competition drives innovation, and innovation drives competition. High level of excitement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2020

Entrepreneurs need to document a process of responding to a market need, sizing opportunity, assigning a specific business model, and planning for marketing, sales, and customer satisfaction. No mention usually means no plan and not competitive. It’s a myth in the startup world that not having processes makes you more competitive.

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