Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Start by getting people comfortable with what they don’t know, showing them you are open to new ideas, and don’t demand perfection in all deliverables. Teach team members by example, monitoring, and feedback, to gain awareness of what motivates them, triggers them, and where their biases lie. Develop self-awareness of your triggers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Thomas Edison is a classic example. You will learn to recognize that some friends and colleagues are always downers, and get their satisfaction from snuffing out your aspirations through negative thinking. A first step is empowering yourself to achieve success and feel satisfaction from doing your job.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2023

Everyone knows and admires a few trusted leaders in business, for example, Richard Branson , founder of Virgin Group and Warren Buffett , founder of Berkshire Hathaway. With fewer levels, people are incented to accept more accountability for their actions and get more personal satisfaction from their contributions to results.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Here are some examples from their book and my experience of the many indicators, challenges that entrepreneurs will probably recognize, which highlight the value and need for increased focus on the human element: Collaborative team sessions seem to drag on. Demand for coaching, counseling, and discipline training is high.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

For example, a while back a passionate entrepreneur approached me with an innovative solution for reducing world hunger, but hadn’t focused on the fact that hungry people often don’t have any money, and governments are not easy customers. Beware of the allure and demands of early adopters.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2022

As you look forward from where you are today, I recommend that each of you consider the following points that the authors and I all agree are key to your satisfaction, as well as your success in business: You love solution creation more than managing business. For example, a whole new level of communication skills is required.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Burnout occurs for many when your job demands are too many, the hours are too long, and the resources to handle them are too few. To survive, you must focus on recovery and resiliency, strive to achieve a balance between resources and demands, and set clear boundaries between work and non-work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Thus there are some key things that we can do as a leader to improve people’s self confidence and ability to deliver, as well as be a better example for others: Practice what you preach on accountability. For example , Starbucks' chief executive officer, Kevin R. First of all, you need to be a role model for accountability.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2021

For example, most people thought Twitter was a total snoozer, when Jack Dorsey was looking for funding, especially with MySpace already owning that territory. For example, many products are now offered by subscription, which was a concept from the services world. I find that most new business successes minimize breakage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2022

We have all heard the examples of the great new company cultures, popularized by Google, Zappos, and Facebook, which seem to imply that company perks are the secret to success. Traditional business leadership practices, including autocratic, reactive, and narcissistic, aren’t good enough.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2023

In either case, you need to understand the dynamics to maximize team performance, and for your own sanity and satisfaction. Team members may forget you are now the boss, or anyone can make inappropriate comments or demands. For example, declare you have another meeting in fifteen minutes, or must leave in ten minutes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2022

The challenge is that every new business needs to be innovative and different, in order to rise above the crowd, bring real change to the world, and give you the satisfaction you seek. Other examples include smart-home remote control, cell-phone tracking, and remote auto traffic sensors. I wish it was that easy. Mobile Computing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

In either case, you need to understand the dynamics to maximize team performance, and for your own sanity and satisfaction. Team members may forget you are now the boss, or anyone can make inappropriate comments or demands. For example, declare you have another meeting in fifteen minutes, or must leave in ten minutes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2021

A key part of her message that resonated with me, as a mentor to entrepreneurs, is her guidance on how to deal with the constant demands and requests that every business founder faces. For example, “I have another commitment at the same time that I can’t move,” or “This isn’t my area of expertise, so I’m just not the best person.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2019

For example, it may seem quicker and more effective to hand your service desk employees the store policy manual, and tell them to follow the rules, rather than spend time coaching them on how to really listen to customer feedback, and use their strengths to build customer loyalty. Team members want development plus satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2020

Evan Williams , for example, before cofounding Twitter, started a podcasting platform named Odeo. Their satisfaction comes from proving nay-sayers wrong. Don’t forget to maintain a healthy balance between business and personal demands, including family, sleep, and time off for enjoyable activities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2021

Ongoing momentum requires a move to mainstream, or even late adopters, who demand simplicity in your base function. For example, Mark McClain, cofounder and CEO of SailPoint Technologies , created an employee growth culture resulting in growth of forty percent a year, with more than $100 million in revenues.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

For example, if feedback tells you that you don’t communicate well, start measuring yourself on how many times you send out unsolicited notes on status, strategy, guidance, and praise for results. Over time, I learned that I could get more personal results, as well as satisfaction, by enlisting the natural strengths of others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2020

This distrust for the scripted message has led to a new demand for unfiltered marketing, and the emergence of business credibility heroes, like Elon Musk, with his bold statements about space travel, and sometime villains, such as Mark Zuckerberg defending Facebook privacy practices. They want the raw data versus a polished message.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2020

What you don’t expect is to feel out of control , or to always be fighting the many demands for your time. YouTube and Facebook, for example, both advertised themselves as dating sites until they recognized from results that the dating market segment was already over-saturated.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2021

For example, I believe Bill Gates would have failed without his partners Steve Ballmer and Paul Allen. You need the funding and support, but venture capitalists can be very demanding, and set high targets. It’s an amazing ride, and there is no satisfaction like creating something out of nothing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2019

Here are some examples from their book and my experience of the many indicators, challenges that entrepreneurs will probably recognize, which highlight the value and need for increased focus on the human element: Collaborative team sessions seem to drag on. Demand for coaching, counseling, and discipline training is high.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2022

For example, is the person who starts a new trend likely to be the one who controls it through the growth phase? Don’t wait for the harsh reality of the demanding business world to start thinking about these tradeoffs. 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

JULY 29, 2022

Most people don’t know that billionaire Mark Zuckerberg , for example, gives real credit to the inspiring mentorship of Steve Jobs for Mark’s Facebook success. The most common challenges involve time and accessibility demands on either side, or the level of help expected. That’s the ultimate satisfaction. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

At Amazon, Jeff Bezos leads a relentless drive to invent dramatic new ways to delight customers, not waiting for customer demands or competitors to show the way. For example, when delivery costs and delays were still a major online sales hurdle, Amazon Prime membership was invented to offer free next day shipping.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2019

These are responding to the demands of this new world for collaboration, trust, and transparency. In fact, Conscious Capitalism companies, for example, historically have outperformed the S&P 500 index by a factor of ten. Set an example by being visibly connected to the people and information you need through social media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Instead of counting and working more hours, I believe there are better ways to improve your productivity, as well as employee satisfaction, in growing your business: Create relevant result targets for all key employees. For example, for a sales person, this metric number would likely measure new revenue or new customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

While this approach appears to cost more on the surface, it often actually costs you less, when you consider the hidden costs of rework, poor customer satisfaction, employee management, and training required. A solution I often recommend, as least in early growth, is the use of outsourcing for critical tasks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2019

We have all heard the examples of the great new company cultures, popularized by Google, Zappos, and Facebook, which seem to imply that company perks are the secret to success. Traditional business leadership practices, including autocratic, reactive, and narcissistic, aren’t good enough.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2019

The classic example from several years ago was United Airlines not staying tuned in to social media, resulting in a unrecoverable customer problem causing great damage to their reputation, escalating to countless articles , and even a book, “ United Breaks Guitars.” Demand professional business skills and customer advocacy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2015

These are responding to the demands of this new world for collaboration, trust, and transparency. Establish vehicles, like a formal customer satisfaction program, to recognize and reward staff and customers for sharing what they can do to help you. Shared knowledge packaging (shareability). Shared ideas and rewards (open innovation).

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

The challenge is that every new business needs to be innovative and different, in order to rise above the crowd, bring real change to the world, and give you the satisfaction you seek. Other examples include smart-home remote control, cell-phone tracking, and remote auto traffic sensors. I wish it was that easy. Mobile Computing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Treat employees like your most demanding customers. Jeff Bezos at Amazon, for example, preaches that he is obsessed with customer needs, but also has demonstrated the same focus on employee engagement, by setting high standards, defining shared values, and constantly driving the culture to meet their needs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

These are responding to the demands of this new world for collaboration, trust, and transparency. Establish vehicles, like a formal customer satisfaction program, to recognize and reward staff and customers for sharing what they can do to help you. Shared knowledge packaging (shareability). Shared ideas and rewards (open innovation).

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

For example, even though we were leading an entrepreneurial effort within IBM, we found it a challenge to deal with the inbred mainframe culture, reverence for process, and accounting practices of a large company. He was a great leader, and one of very few who have even been able to dent the barriers to real change in a large corporation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2018

For example, Google has institutionalized innovation through a manifesto initiated by Marissa Mayer in her early days as a VP there. When innovations are driven by increased customer value and satisfaction, business growth will come naturally from repeat business, new customers, and referrals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2019

Most people don’t know that billionaire Mark Zuckerberg , for example, gives real credit to the inspiring mentorship of Steve Jobs for Mark’s Facebook success. The most common challenges involve time and accessibility demands on either side, or the level of help expected. That’s the ultimate satisfaction. Marty Zwilling.

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