Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2015

Facebook, for example, ended up raising almost $16 billion through its IPO. Extensive government reporting and compliance rules. To prevent another Enron scandal, public companies and their officers are measured against strict and growing government rules for reporting and compliance, popularly known as Sarbanes-Oxley, or SOX.

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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. Everyday devices, like Internet soda vending , have an embedded computer allowing full remote reporting and control. I wish it was that easy.

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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 advisors and a board of directors, but they require regular communication and reporting, a strategic plan, and discipline. It’s an amazing ride, and there is no satisfaction like creating something out of nothing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2022

It’s been happening for some time, but business changes, accelerated by the recent pandemic, have highlighted the need for all of us to review our positions, image, and satisfaction at work. Build a personal marketing plan, as you would for a new product, including regular highlight reports, progress, and results.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2022

For example, non-computer types should consider delegating their social media, website, and SEO activities. It will inspire loyalty, provide real satisfaction for work done, and become the basis for mentoring and performance reviews. Delegate what you can’t do, and what doesn’t interest you. Pick the best person to delegate to.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Another great example is Bill Barhydt of m-Via. I know that their are independent software companies now focused on this like UserVoice and Get Satisfaction. Our team lead build a very elegant piece of code for inputting tasks, assigning them, tracking them and reporting on past-due work tasks. They recorded it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2021

Every reported problem likely means that many similar ones went unreported. These can be as simple as regularly counting positive versus negative results from a Google search, to satisfaction survey improvements over time. Every customer or outside concern should be taken seriously as an opportunity to improve.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2022

As an advisor to entrepreneurs and a technologist, I’m happy to report that the tide may be turning, and we are experiencing a new era of opportunity for entrepreneurs, and a new appreciation of the power of the digital world. In his classic book, “ Digital Context 2.0: In his classic book, “ Digital Context 2.0: Norton, Ph.D.,

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Steve Reich

JUNE 11, 2012

The good news is you can do it, too, and there are great examples in Socal. MBO is very metrics driven, and their shareholder reports are dense with detailed, disciplined reporting that remind you that Rick is former Naval officer. Why do so many of us have iPhones? It gives the best customer experience of any phone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2022

I still find too many service organizations that ignore or discount online reviews and satisfaction surveys. In this context, you might also offer free seminars of the latest trends in tax accounting, or reports on best practices that you sanction and practice in a given discipline. Focus on proposals, rather than hourly rates.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2020

For example, Blake Mycoskie, founder of shoe company Toms , donates a pair one-for-one, keeps himself and his team recharged by sending employees to travel internationally and work directly in the field where the shoes are donated.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2019

For example, if your business is landscaping, it’s well worth your time as the owner to make one last call on every customer a week after completion, to check their satisfaction, clear up any oversights, ask for a testimonial, and probably get some follow-on work. Regularly review every customer comment, and reply.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2015

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. Everyday devices, like Internet soda vending , have an embedded computer allowing full remote reporting and control. I wish it was that easy.

Startup 107

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2015

For example, non-computer types should consider delegating their social media, website, and SEO activities. It will inspire loyalty, provide real satisfaction for work done, and become the basis for mentoring and performance reviews. Delegate what you can’t do, and what doesn’t interest you. Pick the best person to delegate to.

Entrepreneur 100

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2019

For example, non-computer types should consider delegating their social media, website, and SEO activities. It will inspire loyalty, provide real satisfaction for work done, and become the basis for mentoring and performance reviews. Delegate what you can’t do, and what doesn’t interest you. Pick the best person to delegate to.

Startup 96

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2012

For example, non-computer types should consider delegating their social media, website, and SEO activities. It will inspire loyalty, provide real satisfaction for work done, and become the basis for mentoring and performance reviews. Delegate what you can’t do, and what doesn’t interest you. Pick the best person to delegate to.

Entrepreneur 96

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2013

For example, non-computer types should consider delegating their social media, website, and SEO activities. It will inspire loyalty, provide real satisfaction for work done, and become the basis for mentoring and performance reviews. Delegate what you can’t do, and what doesn’t interest you. Pick the best person to delegate to.

Startup 95

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2018

If everyone works well together, you all feel a sense of job satisfaction. Reports indicate that body language is fifty percent or more of every communication. An example is someone who essentially does nothing until someone tells them to. Everyone thinks this is a management or the other person’s problem.

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

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. Everyday devices, like Internet soda vending , have an embedded computer allowing full remote reporting and control. I wish it was that easy.

Cloud Computing 99

Cloud Computing Social Media Entrepreneur Networking 99

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2011

For example, non-computer types should consider delegating their social media, website, and SEO activities. It will inspire loyalty, provide real satisfaction for work done, and become the basis for mentoring and performance reviews. Delegate what you can’t do, and what doesn’t interest you. Pick the best person to delegate to.

Startup 91

Startup SEO Social Media Satisfaction 91

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. Everyday devices, like Internet soda vending , have an embedded computer allowing full remote reporting and control. I wish it was that easy.

Technology 86

Technology Cloud Computing Social Media Networking 86

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2017

Be honest with yourself about small habits you have which may irritate your direct reports, coworkers, or customers. For example, smokers looking for stress relief or relaxation. The little satisfactions can sometimes mean a lot. Solve small problems. Strive to do so without punishing yourself. Identify small moments.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Everyone reports updates and obstacles. The challenge is in getting clear numbers, but not often as cleanly as a basic web analytics report. For example? He continues with an example where they’d spent a lot of effort on implementing tracking on every portion of a product. Machinima’s example?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2016

The report also indicates that customer problem experiences continue to increase, up four percent to 54 percent since the last study. If a customer feels like they are doing all the work, satisfaction will never be forthcoming. Carey School of Business. Indeterminate and long waits before or during a session can and must be eliminated.

Customer 56

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2017

While there are encouraging signs that the work ethic in many businesses is improving, the latest Gallup poll still reports that almost 50 percent of employees are "not engaged" and 16.5 percent are "actively disengaged." Match their focus on work ethic, and you too can join them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

By John Williams Fast Company magazine recently reported that PayPal founder Paul Thiel is giving away $100,000 to twenty-four young men and women to finance startup businesses. You get the personal satisfaction of making something out of almost nothing. Making cakes, making baby clothes, or making birdhouses, for example.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2018

Most people get a tremendous satisfaction from helping others, but are equally afraid to offer without being asked. I will paraphrase here the steps she recommends, using my own experience as a business advisor to set the context and examples: The advisor needs to know that you might need help.

Mentor 53

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Greathouse: One of the things an outside investor brings to the equation, in addition to money, is a set cadence with regard to planning, reporting and honest post-mortems of initiatives. For example, the consulting lifestyle has a lot of freedom and flexibility. There can be quite a bit of satisfaction in that in itself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

The image of a self-proclaimed expert who can generate a report, make a great presentation, and leave you to do the implementation, is just not attractive when you don’t have a staff, and you are already overloaded with the crisis of the day. Leadership by example works at all levels of a company.

Social Media 56

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2017

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. Everyday devices, like Internet soda vending , have an embedded computer allowing full remote reporting and control. I wish it was that easy.

Cloud Computing 61

Cloud Computing Startup Social Media Networking 61

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2016

As an advisor to entrepreneurs and a technologist, I’m happy to report that the tide may be turning, and we are experiencing a new era of opportunity for entrepreneurs, and a new appreciation of the power of the digital world. In his new book, “ Digital Context 2.0: In his new book, “ Digital Context 2.0: Norton, Ph.D.,

Social Media 53

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Consider the original founders of Apple and Microsoft as examples. Since both skills are required in equal amounts for success, the single founder failure rate today is reported to far exceed 50 percent. They provide a personal legacy, satisfaction and happiness. That’s why I say “two heads are better than one” in a startup.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Want to know, for example, why Foursquare uses MongoDB to store check-in information? For example, your client wants to say that eggs are unhealthy? RIM and TiVo are two examples of getting it right and wrong. Ask a question and get an answer - that is, after all, what all Q&A sites offer. Call it facts for hire. Keep going.

Technical Review 175

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

For example, non-computer types should consider delegating their social media, website, and SEO activities. It will inspire loyalty, provide real satisfaction for work done, and become the basis for mentoring and performance reviews. Delegate what you can’t do, and what doesn’t interest you. Pick the best person to delegate to.

Startup 53

Startup SEO Social Media Satisfaction 53

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2010

For example, non-computer types should consider delegating their social media, website, and SEO activities. It will inspire loyalty, provide real satisfaction for work done, and become the basis for mentoring and performance reviews. Delegate what you can’t do, and what doesn’t interest you. Pick the best person to delegate to.

Entrepreneur 52

Entrepreneur Startup SEO Social Media 52

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2017

New managers are generally taught not to build personal relationships with direct reports – in case you have to discipline them later. Let them go to find a better fit, with real job satisfaction. Even worse, people follow your example, causing greater damage to productivity and morale. Don’t chase hearsay, rumors, or gossip.

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