TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

With Generative AI and LLMs, new avenues for improving operational efficiency and user satisfaction are emerging every day. An example of this would be: “carrots, chicken, and bok-choy.” Even better, initial implementations are often affordable and relatively fast.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As a long-time mentor to new entrepreneurs and business owners, I have noticed that many no longer associate more fulfillment and satisfaction with more money, power, and success. It seems that fulfillment to these new entrepreneurs is all about changing the world and legacy. He enjoys the learning from these calculated risks.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 9, 2009

An example: “To be at a $25 million run rate by the end of our fifth year in business.” Unlike a mission or even a vision, neither of which may be measured, there is a satisfaction in each step toward achievement. You can express it in terms of money, market share, influence or other measure that reflects success.

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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, TOMS shoes agreed to donate a pair of shoes to the needy for every pair sold. Think twice before committing to a business that is work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Each of these will help you in achieving success and satisfaction while tackling your toughest business issues: Stop attacking symptoms – dig first for the root cause. A broken process or a subtle quality issue can generate a flood of customer satisfaction problems, cost overruns, and loss of market share.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 15, 2023

Here’s a business example: “To be at a $25 million run rate by the end of our fifth year in business.” Unlike your vision, which can’t be measured, there is a satisfaction in each step toward achievement of your goal. You can express it in terms of money, market share, influence or other measure that reflects success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Today, customers are looking for real relationships, a memorable shopping experience, and satisfaction of a higher purpose. For example, Tesla and Elon Musk have capitalized on the environmental benefits of electric vehicles, coupled with a more memorable shopping experience by eliminating dealers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

I have to admit that I have no magic formula, but I do offer the following recommendations from experience to get you started, and minimize negativity in both employee teams and all levels of management: Make yourself a consistent example of positivity. Administer regular morale and satisfaction surveys. They may really want to change.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 22, 2022

We react positively to suggestions, reward their loyalty with recognition, and make this important cohort not just seem to be, but actually be the ideal example of our mission personified. It takes work. . And the reward will surprise you. Engaged customers spend more, generate higher margins, and become passionate influencers. High margins.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Thus if you want to change the world with your new business, you need to follow the example of startups like Zappos , which hires according to cultural fit first. Examples include work time flexibility, transportation assistance, exercise opportunities at work, and rewards for setting the right example.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 13, 2010

It took two long years for the company to fully recover its lost reputation after the actual problem was fixed to the satisfaction of all. But “There’s the rub” (the snag) wrote Shakespeare in Hamlet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2022

A key influencer of satisfaction and motivation, top-ranked by employees, is positive progress and the completion of meaningful work. Negative leader behaviors affect work satisfaction for everyone. Managing and motivating a team in a startup is more than just using the right interpersonal skills.

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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. If you are a genius at invention, for example, then that is the role you should seek to keep you motivated and productive. Assess your satisfaction and ability for this type of work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 23, 2021

For example, I commonly see metrics to keep track of revenue per employee, overtime, and absenteeism, but I don’t often see measures of overall customer satisfaction with individual employees. For example, a few years ago, TD Bank wanted to thank their customers in a memorable way for being their customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2023

For your own happiness and satisfaction, I recommend you start instead working from that higher purpose and passion. For example, consider CVS Health's Project Health program, which directed teams to provide free health screenings to disadvantaged and underserved patient populations. Measure customer value perception at every stage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

For example, I remember a classic book by Penina Rybak, “ The NICE Reboot ,” that does a great job of outlining problem solving steps, honed from working with special needs youngsters. 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 30, 2021

For example, a couple of years ago, Starbucks' CEO Kevin R. Sir Richard Branson , for example, often makes a point of personally rewarding outstanding leaders by taking them aside and telling them that they are now in charge of one of his new companies. His Virgin Group today consists of over 400 companies.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Email readers, continue here…] It took two long years for the company to fully recover its lost reputation after the actual problem was fixed to the satisfaction of all. But “There’s the rub” (the snag) wrote Shakespeare in Hamlet. The smaller the company, the more is at stake.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Great entrepreneurs are willing and anxious to tackle these control challenges, and get real satisfaction from their acceptance of the “buck-stops-here” position of a business owner. An example of an entrepreneur who pioneered the success of this strategy many years ago was Yvon Chouinard when he founded Patagonia.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2020

For example, when I was with IBM, in an era where constant change was necessary to compete, we made job rotation and training a prerequisite for good performance ratings, so that team members sought change and new learning, rather than passively resisting. Set up training courses that highlight agility, and adopt agile working practices.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2020

Thus if you want to change the world with your new business, you need to follow the example of startups like Zappos , which hires according to cultural fit first. Examples include work time flexibility, transportation assistance, exercise opportunities at work, and rewards for setting the right example.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

A clever example of giving before taking is practiced by Central Desktop. Although the spike and spread approach is an effective way to grow your revenue, you can also accelerate your sales by delivering value to your existing customers before you ask for anything in return. Follow my startup-oriented Twitter feed here: @johngreathouse.

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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

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

For example, Jeff Bezos of Amazon always finds time for his " divinely discontented " customers, as an opportunity, rather than an irritant. As a result, Amazon has ranked as #1 for customer satisfaction for many years in a row and has grown accordingly. More happy customers is a major key to success. Nothing can be a higher priority.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 21, 2016

But imagine this: at the end of a project or period, you get back a client satisfaction survey with a score of 100%. This applies beyond client satisfaction surveys. For example, people tend to ignore introverts on their teams. Here are some ideas…. Hang in the negative. Now shake things up. You have to go and get it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2020

For example, Xerox tried to broaden the use of "xerox" as the standard term for "photocopying" to extend their existing customer segment into office automation and all kinds of computing. The customer experience is a function of satisfaction with both the service, support, and usability of complex products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

He provides dozens of ideas and examples to illustrate how this discipline can work, and the power it brings to any organization. An example is the evolution of computer control to screen touches and gestures, versus keys and mice. Your long-term survival and satisfaction depend on it. Outsource services back to the customer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2016

For example, Elon Musk is recognized as a visionary entrepreneur, but his fortune and his impact has come from the great companies he has built, including SpaceX, Tesla Motors, and PayPal. Affirming and rewarding team members for key actions creates more momentum, commitment, and satisfaction. Investors like happy teams.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2022

I will highlight here just a few of the many lessons that they mention, and I also recommend, to get you started down the path to the satisfaction and success you dream about: Make sure some crazy ideas are added to your list. For example, I worked with Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer , who founded Microsoft and achieved success together.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2019

Unfortunately, work and satisfaction have become an oxymoron in many businesses. For example, I’m a problem solver by nature, and have worked in several support organizations, but I get bored when all the answers are already known. I believe the only way to improve engagement is to make work more satisfying. No one likes useless work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2022

For example, I often hear from aspiring entrepreneurs that “I had that idea first, and he stole it, and is now making money on my idea.” This momentum is what you need for enjoyment and satisfaction, as well as for others to see you as a business leader. Build your character and reputation with personal values.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2020

For example, I often hear proposals for new online social media or collaboration platforms, maybe more specifically tuned to inventors or artists, or easier to use, and populated by experts, to compete against Slack or Facebook. Investors are looking for breakthrough solutions to fund. Be forever curious and optimistic.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Under Hsieh’s leadership, Zappos revolutionized the apparel industry, and e-commerce in general, by being one of the first to prioritize customer satisfaction and service. For example, removing the friction of mistakes and extra costs by sending a customer shoes in 3 sizes to see which fit best, with easy and free returns for everything.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Both ends of this spectrum fail to bring long-term satisfaction or success. For example, the handmade-item platform Etsy sponsors free entrepreneurship courses for underemployed and unemployed people, including assistance in setting up a store on Etsy, thus adding more artists and artisan sellers to their platform.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. Product companies sometimes equate customer satisfaction with customer service, but it’s more than that, especially with services. You have no shelf life, so you can’t make money while you sleep.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

We react positively to suggestions, reward their loyalty with recognition, and make this important cohort not just seem to be, but actually be the ideal example of our mission personified. It takes work. And the reward will surprise you. Engaged customers spend more, generate higher margins, and become passionate influencers. High margins.

Customer 120

Customer Custom Satisfaction Pricing 120

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. With startups, almost every entrepreneur I know has failed at least once, often several times, but never gave up, and ultimately achieved their goal.

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