Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2023

Indeed these principles are good for all startups Connect ideas and networks from around the world. The distributed model draws on a diverse pool, helps manage costs, and captures regional insights and focus necessary to win local customers. Manage risk – don’t just “move fast and break things.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2020

I recommend that every entrepreneur and small business investigate and implement as many as possible of his seven new business force multipliers that I will paraphrase here: Information sharing through social media networks. Nurture dedicated customer advocates and fans. Consider advocates to be a step up from customer engagement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2022

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or angel investors in Arizona, where I live. Exposure to customers, incumbents, and competitors all drive success. get the attention of the market they choose.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

In other words, inventions are necessary but not sufficient to create real value for investors and customers. The value is tied to infrastructure outside your control, such as a pervasive network of fuel stations, trained service facilities, and new government regulations. You need a viable business model and customers.

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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. The focus must be on five discovery skills of associating, questioning, observing, networking, and experimenting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2020

The customer culture today responds best to a greater vision for improving society and the planet, which can easily sustain a constant stream of new products. Challenge your team, and your customers, with expanding their mindset, achieving personal goals, and changing the world. Rally people behind a higher purpose, not just a product.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Does your customer service department need additional tools? Prioritize the customer experience. Whether you’re running a virtual call center or you have a traditional contact center model, it’s important to put your clients and customers first. Here’s how to better utilize your capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2020

In the entrepreneur world, your perception is equally critical, except the “managers” in this world are your investors, customers, vendors, business partners, and team members. Use the idea to kick-start your relationships with co-founders, investors, customers and business partners. Your personal life is now public.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

Indeed these principles are good for all startups Connect ideas and networks from around the world. The distributed model draws on a diverse pool, helps manage costs, and captures regional insights and focus necessary to win local customers. Manage risk – don’t just “move fast and break things.”

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Steve Blank

APRIL 4, 2023

Researchers believe this tipping point is result of the complex interactions between the neural network architecture and the massive amounts of training data it has been exposed to – essentially everything that was on the Internet as of September 2021.) and watched as new industries, markets and customers created literally overnight.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Early customer feedback will position your solution, and help you make pivots before critical time and money are lost. Networking no longer is primarily a face-to-face serial activity. Just make sure you can fill in all the details.

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TechEmpower

JULY 24, 2023

Even when they have talked to multiple developers or development firms, we’re often the first to ask basic questions like “Who are your customers?” Who are the customers? Can you provide specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, and what the system will do for them? will you leverage?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Yet in this age when customers have a thousand alternatives, and are overwhelmed by a multitude of messages, sales efforts can make or break a business. In fact, I believe modern entrepreneurs need to be super sales people, in the most positive sense, to their team as well as customers. You and the customer have to be on the same side.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

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. Constantly strengthening your network of relationships. No entrepreneur can build a business alone.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2020

For a startup, the first goal is to invest in the advertisement of your business to get customers. Affiliate Networks Are Great for Startups. If you are confused on how to advertise your startup using affiliate marketing, you can take help from any affiliate network. They charge you income which is separate for every task.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2020

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. Constantly strengthening your network of relationships. No entrepreneur can build a business alone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Many of the entrepreneurs I advise or invest with spend considerable time on the Internet, keeping up with technology, customers, and competitors, but very few feel the need for an early personal presence. Invest your time in networking online, as well as offline. Every future entrepreneur should start by networking.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 24, 2024

You can explore Amazon ecommerce fulfillment services to improve customer satisfaction and streamline operations. Amazon charges fees for storage and fulfillment, but many sellers find these costs worthwhile due to the increased sales volume and customer satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2023

I recommend that every entrepreneur and small business investigate and implement as many as possible of his seven new business force multipliers that I will paraphrase here: Information sharing through social media networks. Nurture dedicated customer advocates and fans. Consider advocates to be a step up from customer engagement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

While these investors, and early customers, will always argue that they found you, I’m convinced that there is no substitute for aggressive networking on your part. Here is my list of key drivers that I find critical to thriving in big businesses, as well as startups: Networking to build and maintain key relationships.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2020

Message delivery must be customized for each investor. It takes more than one person to build a business, so the lone entrepreneur, without support from any visible team, advisors, partners, or potential customers, will not attract investors. Of course, previous successes provide more direct evidence of a network of the right people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2022

by Donna Cutting, who is a globally-recognized guru on employee culture and optimizing customer service. In my experience, a healthy team is a prerequisite for a thriving business, innovation to meet market needs, and high customer loyalty. Emotional stability. This translates to better motivation, productivity, and collaboration.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Some pundits argue that the E-Myth principle is now outdated, due to the instant access to information via the Internet, pervasive networking via social media, and courses on entrepreneurship at all levels of education. Hence most fail. Perhaps an innate business savvy is no longer a requirement for starting a successful business.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

We could talk with customers, meet the entire management team, review financial plans, review customer purchasing cohorts, evaluate the competition, etc. 40% of our deals are done in Los Angeles but 100% of our deals leverage the LA networks we have built for 25 years. In 2009 we could take a long time to review a deal.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2022

Take full advantage of every mentoring and coaching opportunity, and network with peers both inside and outside the company. With today’s pervasive Internet and social networks, people can see how you act outside of work, as well as inside. Use ongoing networking as a way to improve connections.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2023

Accelerators provide these teams with technical and business expertise and connect them to a network of other founders and advisors. The studio’s internal team builds the minimal viable product, then validates an idea by finding product/market fit and early customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2020

Others pivoted quickly based on customer need changes, rather than just spending more money on advertising and charging ahead. Smart entrepreneurs continually test their perceptions against those of customers, outside leaders, and experts. Of course, this vision must be continually tuned by new customer trends and technology arrivals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The same is true for people who may approach you at networking events or industry conferences. If that doesn’t get their attention, it probably won’t get any customer attention either, and that’s the best feedback you can get at that stage. Build trust first. Discussions with potential strategic partners. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2022

It’s what every customer looks for in every transaction. In today’s marketplace, junior staffers are often the most intimately connected to the market, technology, and the customer network. Employees will lose focus on their work.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Message delivery must be customized for each investor. It takes more than one person to build a business, so the lone entrepreneur, without support from any visible team, advisors, partners, or potential customers, will not attract investors. Of course, previous successes provide more direct evidence of a network of the right people.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2020

communication networks, then identify how China might exploit these weaknesses differently during the political coercion of Taiwan in the near-term vs open conflict in the long-term. This move effectively limits China’s access to a critical resource- the custom chips that are vital to products that fuel China’s domestic and export growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2020

Those of you who viewed the movie The Social Network , saw an example of new entrepreneurs dealing with conflict poorly, almost leading to the demise of Facebook. Think of the risk taken by CEO Todd Davis of LifeLock when he posted his Social Security number online, to assure customers the he could protect them from identity theft.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 13, 2024

4 Connect With Fellow Entrepreneurs Expanding your professional network can do more good than you think. Networking can help you find investors, talent, customers, and revenue opportunities. Such people can drive innovation as well as customer satisfaction. It can contribute to your success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

Encourage networking. These might include anyone bringing in a new customer, representing the company in a good social cause, or participating in a video or social media campaign on their own time. That means rewarding feedback from outside, both good and bad, rather than being closed. Reward success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Smart potential customers only visit and buy from credible and memorable websites. No name, picture, address, or business history only convinces customers that you are hiding, located in an un-trustable country, or don’t have a clue. Follow-up for customer satisfaction. They will exit quickly. Show evidence of your expertise.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

This class is built on conducting in-person of interviews with customers/ beneficiaries and stakeholders, but due to the pandemic, teams now had to do all their customer discovery via a computer screen. How would customer interviews work via video? See here for an extended discussion of remote customer discovery.).

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. Through networking with other entrepreneurs, you should find one or more to visit that have relationships with this investor.

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