Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.” Execution leadership. Leadership brand development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2023

The most valuable assets of a new startup are the people on the team, and the most challenging task of the entrepreneur and team leaders is to spend their leadership time and energy productively. Most new startup founders start out by assuming they need to spread their leadership efforts evenly across all team members. Rising stars.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.” Execution leadership. Leadership brand development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Employees are still too often thought of as a commodity, to be acquired “just in time” for the lowest cost, and managed as a disposable asset. Based on many years of HR leadership at SAP and elsewhere, these authors start by highlighting the risks of not leveraging data analytics. Subjectively measuring employee engagement.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

How To Sell Customer Experiences Not Customer Service written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with Jeannie Walters In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I had the pleasure of interviewing Jeannie Walters. and the necessity of building a customer-centric culture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2022

I saw a good summary of these in the classic book, “ Ethical Leadership ,” by Andrew Leigh, an expert in this area. Business ethics are more about religion than management or leadership. While codes of behavior do not guarantee an ethical culture, they do clarify desired behavior and articulate for employees what is expected of them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2019

Every startup lucky enough to get some traction gets to the point where they decide to hire some “regular employees” for sales, marketing, and administrative tasks. This commitment to hire people who think like entrepreneurs, or instill an “owner’s mindset” in every employee, should be a high priority in every business.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

DataRails , the financial analysis and reporting software startup, has announced the hiring of David Rosenberg as the company’s new VP of customer success. Rosenberg comes fresh from managing the growth of Keyrus, a data consulting company, from 35 to 120 employees. Rosenberg will be based in DataRails’s NYC headquarters.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Consult with Ease: Personalize Your Customer Stragtegy Using AI written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with David Edelman In this episode of the Duck Tape Marketing Podcast, I had the pleasure of interviewing David Edelman , a seasoned digital transformation and marketing expert.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

But cash gifts aside, there are plenty of other ways to show your employees that you appreciate their hard work, creativity, and dedication during the season of giving. ” One of the greatest gifts you can give employees is building a culture so great that they can’t imagine working any place else. WOW them with some grace.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2022

Every startup lucky enough to get some traction gets to the point where they decide to hire some “regular employees” for sales, marketing, and administrative tasks. This commitment to hire people who think like entrepreneurs, or instill an “owner’s mindset” in every employee, should be a high priority in every business.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2020

by Deb Boelkes, author of “ Heartfelt Leadership: How to Capture the Top Spot and Keep on Soaring “ A couple months ago, a crisis hit the world — one that changed almost everything about how companies operate. Were you patient as employees struggled to balance their newly remote jobs with home schooling and child care?

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View from Seed

JUNE 13, 2019

Embedded Growth From Existing Customers. One of the key features of Chewy’s business is the recurring nature of customer purchases. Chewy now has over 10 million customers, repeat purchases by existing customers account for approximately 90% of their revenue today. Annual Net Sales By Customer Cohort.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2021

In reality, the best business process innovations usually come from regular employees on the front line of your business, just trying to do a better job and better serve customers. Thus I recommend the minimum viable product (MVP) approach with iteration, to test innovations until the product or service really meets today’s customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2023

A common initiative I hear from business owners today is their effort to improve the customer experience. Some are doing this at the expense of employee experience , which I believe is one of the major causes of employee dissatisfaction and exit of good employees today. Responsive – empower employees to help peers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2022

A particularly critical moment is when the founders hand over the leadership to a more managerial regime. A common practice is to hire local employees who know the geographic culture, even though this may well dilute the company culture. Geographic expansion. Product-line expansion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2020

People who have been followers too long as an employee don’t realize how hard it is to be a leader. Every new entrepreneur has to initiate the right actions to be perceived as a leader in their chosen business domain by their team and by their customers, or the road to success and satisfaction will be lost along the way.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2022

Employees are still too often thought of as a commodity, to be acquired “just in time” for the lowest cost, and managed as a disposable asset. Based on many years of HR leadership at SAP and elsewhere, these authors start by highlighting the risks of not leveraging data analytics. Subjectively measuring employee engagement.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

There is nothing more pure than building a product, putting it out in the world and seeing paying customers using your product and in some cases loving it. As companies get this initial customer feedback on their product they start to have to ask harder questions about unit economics: How much does it cost us to acquire a new customer?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2019

Good partners are people who are confident in their own abilities, and willing and able to make decisions, take responsibility for their actions, and able to provide leadership, rather than require leadership. The passion has to be in the business context – meaning results oriented, customer oriented, and sensitive to competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2022

We are living in a new generation of business, where customers drive the experience, and highly engaged employees are required to keep up with customer expectations. Traditional business leadership practices, including autocratic, reactive, and narcissistic, aren’t good enough. Benton and Kylie Wright-Ford.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

Gottlieb, an inspirational business leader, and Harvard Business School executive education alumnus, champions a leadership philosophy centered on strategy, empowerment, and consistent execution while founding charitable initiatives like “Windows for a Cause” and “Baths for the Brave.” Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please!

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 31, 2023

Some people claim ‘culture and employee engagement’ are luxuries you can focus on in good times but during market downturns they should be subjugated to business KPIs. MN: I think where most people go wrong during times of difficulty is to try and shield their employees from the truth — especially when it can feel scary.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

You will see that I believe innovation is only one of many factors that ultimately determine your position with customers and your own legacy: Ideas are everywhere – success is all about execution. Search for customer pain rather than high margins. New customers don’t see incremental improvements.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 8, 2022

To set good examples, they need to polish their entrepreneurship skills so that they can influence employees positively. It will help you encourage your employees and get the most out of them. Eventually, it will help motivate your employees to improve their delivery timings, leading to better productivity. Leadership Skills.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 23, 2019

A great one produces happy, engaged employees who give their best efforts, challenge themselves to grow, and consistently meet goals and delight customers. This creates an unparalleled experience for both employees and customers, making both groups feel special, appreciated, and respected.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

In the short term you need customers to find you at any price, and in the longer term you need revenue, profit, and return loyalty. By being proactive, and empowering and rewarding your frontline employees for improving processes, you will enhance your business productivity and growth in both the short term as well as the long term.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2020

No matter how talented you are, it doesn’t matter unless managers can see those talents and think of you as an invaluable employee, or a game-changing manager, or the person whose name is synonymous with success. Use the idea to kick-start your relationships with co-founders, investors, customers and business partners.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2020

But, just an importantly, they’re also in business to put food on the table for their families and employees. With people counting on them—their families and their employees’ families—they have to carry on. Our families — and the families of the employees we eventually hire—come first. Just ask yourself these seven questions: 1.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2019

As an advisor to business owners, and an occasional angel investor, my job is to separate the actual challenges from the common misconceptions that distract many promising entrepreneurs while building the leadership team required for your solution, marketing, and finance success. More money would solve all your startup problems.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2019

I also find that leaders are made, not born , meaning that we all can grow into leadership, if we learn from experience. This made his leadership team stronger, and built huge bonds with his team. Develop an action plan to lead from your strengths, and seek outside support or complementary partners to shore up leadership weaknesses.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 17, 2021

If the communication with your employees is confined to little more than a regular Zoom meeting or the occasional email chain, there are still many aspects of management and leadership that need to be addressed. Setting an Example for Your Employees. Being a Better Leader. Making a Name for Your Business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2021

Every one of you business owners I know has worked hard to build your brand, and recognizes the critical value of instant brand recognition and leadership. For example, a few years ago Wells Fargo seriously damaged its brand trying to grow the business by creating accounts without proper customer consent.

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Up and Running

JUNE 7, 2021

Today, however, we are witnessing a shift toward a more intrinsic motivation for both companies and their employees. Once united merely by their commitment to providing value for their companies and their customers, they are now united in being of value to society. Begin with leadership.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2020

It’s not leadership. The military has three of the four pieces of the puzzle you need: strategy, access to technology, leadership. When they did their first partnership with IBM, they had just 32 employees. Leadership was not the problem. Strategy, technology, leadership – those were fine. It’s not technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2019

A particularly critical moment is when the founders hand over the leadership to a more managerial regime. A common practice is to hire local employees who know the geographic culture, even though this may well dilute the company culture. Geographic expansion. Product-line expansion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

For example, how should you handle a cash flow crisis, where you have to choose between paying a creditor and your employees? When customers or funding fail to materialize, and cash runs short, everyone on the team starts to resort to more desperate measures to keep their job. They have to understand and trust you.

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