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5 Ways To Focus Your Strategy On Delighting Customers

Startup Professionals Musings

The world keeps changing, and visible business strategies that worked well in the past, including being the premium brand or low price producer, simply don’t get the customer loyalty they once did. Today, customers are looking for real relationships, a memorable shopping experience, and satisfaction of a higher purpose.

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How to Deliver More Software Projects On Time

Both Sides of the Table

There’s a healthy balance between allowing a design team to dream up functional requirements, talk with customers, analyze competitors and for technical projects – research the latest cool-kid tools to play with. In summary – I have been involved with software development for 25 years. CEOs are time-driven creatures.

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8 Unpublicized Strategies From Serious Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Here is a summary of some key insights I have gathered over the years from talking to and reading about serious entrepreneurs, including some of the “movers and shakers” today who have built multi-billion dollar enterprises, and really changed our world: The magic is in only pursuing smart risks. There will be time for friends later.

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Can Your New Venture Pass The Scrutiny Of Investors?

Startup Professionals Musings

Contact key vendors and existing customers. Explain that they may be called, and use the opportunity to check their satisfaction with your company and your product. Here is a quick summary of the priorities normally covered by the due diligence process: Evaluation of key players. This is the highest priority item.

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How To Prepare Your New Venture For Investor Scrutiny

Startup Professionals Musings

Others schedule exhaustive training sessions for everyone on the team, including showcase customers, to make sure that everyone paints a consistent picture. Due diligence always involves on-site visits, informal discussions with any or all members of the team, vendors, and good customers as well as bad. Traction in the marketplace.

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7 Ways To Raise Your Visibility As A Business Leader

Startup Professionals Musings

Based on my own years of experience helping new businesses grow, I’d like to offer my own summary of some key lower-level action items, which I believe every business professional and entrepreneur can learn and practice to their advantage: Show ambition and a sense of urgency in every role. Build community with team members and advisors.

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How Your Mindset Has To Evolve To Match The Business

Startup Professionals Musings

A business is an entity which exchanges goods and services with people outside the business (customers) for money, social good, or something of equal value. Here is a summary of the key stages along the way: Idea and seed stage. Business owners get their satisfaction from happy customers and happy stakeholders.

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