The Startup Magazine

JULY 6, 2024

When starting a property management business, offering key services, such as tenant screening, property maintenance, rent collection, and financial reporting, can set you apart and attract clients. Managing rental properties involves providing comprehensive solutions beyond finding good tenants. Understand their needs and preferences.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2025

Waste Management Waste management is also something that can help to elevate your business as well. You should get involved in a waste management industry network so that you can find out the latest when it comes to disposing of your waste properly. You should also get enterprise resource management software as well.

Software Review 147

Software Review Technical Review Retention Campaign 147

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Investors, partners, team members, and customers implicitly value or devalue a startup based on the leader’s physical presence, emotional identity, social skills, intellectual agility, moral values, and past performance in the domain. Good performance management is more about rewarding desirable behavior than penalizing bad performance.

Technical Review 323

Technical Review Due Diligence Valuation Leadership 323

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2021

For entrepreneurs, effective networking is required to find investors, partners, and customers. Time management. They are too busy with the “crisis of the moment” to focus on follow-ups that may save a major customer, close a partner deal, or solidify a process that isn’t working well. Here are a few: Business networking.

Technical Review 333

Technical Review Startup Software Review Retention 333

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Every young entrepreneur needs an experienced partner for credibility with investors, and as a trusted cohort for strategy and growth discussions. Manage customer service. Personnel Manager. Supportive co-founder and executive positions. All the learning from parenting pays big dividends here.

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Advisory Board Dividend Angel Investor Cofounder 368

View from Seed

APRIL 6, 2021

You will spend the rest of your time working alongside the partners throughout the investment process – analyzing investment opportunities, assisting in market research and diligence, and post-investment portfolio support. However, you will serve as a co-pilot on deals with all four partners, across the geographies we cover.

Technical Review 317

Technical Review Software Review Seed Stage Cofounder 317

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2021

For the elite startups and entrepreneurs who manage to attract the investor they dream of, and survive the term sheet negotiation, there is still one more hurdle before the money is in the bank. Visit reference customers, partners, and vendors. This is the mysterious and dreaded due diligence process, which can kill the whole deal.

Technical Review 379

Technical Review Due Diligence Term Sheet Bankruptcy 379

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2020

Let’s take a hard look at the key potential weaknesses of a visionary, and the value of an execution-oriented partner, which the authors call an integrator : Staying focused and following through. Don’t manage details and hold people accountable. Visionaries tend to get bored easily.

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TechEmpower

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Given this diversity, it's important to be selective in the development services company with whom you choose to partner. Project Management: Get a clear understanding of the company's process. Is there a project manager? An account manager? While beneficial, some project managers hinder effective communication.

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Software Developers Software Development Software Review Software 297

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2023

As a business consultant, I can get you started in this transformation, but I was pleased to see more detailed guidance, including things to watch out for, in a recent book, “ The Ecosystem Economy ,” by Venkat Atluri and Miklos Dietz, both senior partners at McKinsey & Company with much experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2021

There you can connect with thousands of potential executives and partners, or find a planned meetup in a city near you. The CEO must focus on key management team hires and assume a few mistakes which need to get fixed. In it, he says "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

By nurturing these relationships, brokers secure repeat business and build a reputation as reliable partners in logistics. Freight management software helps brokers track shipments in real-time, optimize routes, and easily analyze performance metrics.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 19, 2025

Many struggle to establish their online presence effectively while managing day-to-day operations. It combines website development, search engine optimization, social media marketing, and online reputation management into one cohesive solution. Small-business owners across America face intense competition in the digital marketplace.

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Rhode Island Ohio Web Development Social Media 86

The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Choosing the right structure not only impacts your personal liability but also your ability to protect intellectual property, secure investment, and manage taxes. Use Contracts to Your Advantage Whether you’re hiring employees, working with vendors, or entering into agreements with partners, contracts are essential.

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Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Entrepreneur Limited Liability Company 119

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Another way of encouraging change is to give team members more autonomy to make their own decisions, without micromanagement by you or other managers. This also applies to key customers as well as strategic partners. Solicit partners with complementary strengths. Position challenges as future growth opportunities.

Technical Review 277

Technical Review Partner Matching Channel 277

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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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2022

Leaders and investors need to know if you have and are tapping into your key sources of relevant data, including web analytics, sales management data, and customer relationship management (CRM) software. We want to make sure you can break down the silos and manage to results. Outside partners and channel impacts are complex.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2022

Founders have to communicate their ideas and products to investors, business partners, and the rest of the team. Then, hopefully, come customers, distribution channels, and going public or merging with an attractive buy-out candidate.

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Semantic Technical Review Retention Distribution 342

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2020

The allocation of shares among the founders, and the number and size of outside investments, will tells volumes about the health, stability, and management of the business. These questions are the key ones in every due diligence effort, always done by accredited investors, but almost never done by key employees and new partners.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Sweat Equity Burn Rate 436

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Get support from credible industry groups and partners. In this age of the gig-economy, you can more quickly hire and manage freelancers, contract workers, and contract operations. Every new business has unexpected pivots and adjustments, and outsourcing is easier to manage. Focus on a solution that is scalable world-wide.

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Merger Software Review Acquisition Social Media 386

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Just like you can’t start a business alone, you can’t scale the business without external partners with expertise and access to specific customer sets, channels, manufacturing, and support. Managing people and results require the ability to track progress and reward the right people. Managing time and priorities for maximum impact.

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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. A growing team needs skilled managers and an HR organization. “If we build it, they will come” doesn’t work in today’s worldwide information overload. It takes the right team to build a great business.

Technical Review 329

Technical Review Merger Software Review Acquisition 329

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

For the elite startups and entrepreneurs who manage to attract the investor they dream of, and survive the term sheet negotiation, there is still one more hurdle before the money is in the bank. Visit reference customers, partners, and vendors. This is the mysterious and dreaded due diligence process, which can kill the whole deal.

Technical Review 296

Technical Review Due Diligence Term Sheet Bankruptcy 296

View from Seed

MARCH 4, 2020

At a firm level, I think that getting multiple partners on the list is a great milestone as well. In 2009 Bessemer had the most Midas List partners with 6 investors. Name brand firms like Benchmark, Sequoia, and NEA had 4+ partners on the list. The number of firms with multiple midas list partners was 16.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

He gives a wealth of practical advice on building a successful technical startup, including some specifics that I like on what constitutes a dream team of partners: The technical guru. The rest can come from early hires (with stock options to assure commitment), equity investors, or even strategic partners. The operations superstar.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2023

I don’t have a killer idea, or a technical team, but I do know how to build, grow, and manage teams.”. Venture studios create startups by incubating their own ideas or ideas from their partners. These studios have different metrics than startup studios whose limited partners are private family offices or venture capitalists.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2025

Partnering with technology firms can provide insights into the latest advancements for optimising fleet management, enhancing safety, and offering more responsive services, helping businesses grow. Investing in research and development can reveal ways to boost efficiency, cut environmental impact, and improve reliability.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 31, 2025

Michael later served as a group partner, managing director, and CEO of YC. Manage operations leanly: The most common problem for startups is spending too much money. The YC companies Michael has worked with are worth a combined $192 billion. A few weeks ago Siebel announced that he is stepping down from Y combinator.

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Cofounder Silicon Valley Technical Review PR 88

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Many risks can be managed or calculated to improve growth or provide a competitive edge, while others, like skipping quality checks to save money, are recipes for failure. The challenge is to avoid the bad risks, while actively seeking and managing the smart risks. Risk is more manageable with subscriptions and even freemium pricing.

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Forecast Stock Options Technical Review Metrics 304

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2021

Chip Bell and Ron Zemke, who are experts in this area, provide some of the best specific insights I’ve seen, in the classic book “ Managing Knock Your Socks Off Service.” How they see you deal with and talk about peers, partners, team members, and customers tells them what the real rules of conduct are for customer service.

Technical Review 385

Technical Review Salary Metrics Matching 385

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2020

When McDonald’s was still a small company, Ray Kroc, the CEO, had a penchant for asking a store manager to help him clean up trash in their parking lot. Under the stresses of a startup, visible leadership cues can make the difference between success and failure. Instill optimism and self-confidence, but stay grounded in reality.

Technical Review 308

Technical Review Kentucky Due Diligence Japan 308

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

This approach has been used for years, and implies very little risk, but many startups are still “too busy” to pursuing possible partners. They also manage internal venture funds that may be your growth lifeline. Think about your core values and priorities, and look only at potential partners who have the same culture.

Partner 434

Partner Non-disclosure Agreement Intellectual Property Non-Compete 434

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2020

If you can’t measure it you can’t manage it. If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. Partner nations could see their own militaries and homelands subjected to the same threats and challenges that the United States would face. It’s incredibly slow, because of all the stakeholders. 1 is measurement.

Technical Review 369

Technical Review Taiwan Technology Design 369

The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Clear, effective business documentation creates clarity in the minds of employees, stakeholders, and external partners and eventually builds trust for seamless operation. This is especially true for businesses that rely heavily on technology and outsourced services, such as those utilizing Managed Service Providers (MSPs).

Technical Review 158

Technical Review Software Review Operations Technology 158

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2022

If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. Your challenge will be to break down silos, manage diverse and inclusive perspectives, and capitalize on cross-functional insights. In addition to spreading the word internally, you need to create a dialogue externally with partners and customers.

Technical Review 252

Technical Review Silicon Valley Software Review Metrics 252

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 5, 2024

Implementing state-of-the-art management software to streamline administrative tasks like rental agreements, billing, and inventory management maximizes space utilization and minimizes human error. A self-storage management company can become a valuable asset in your quest to maximize profit margins.

Security 147

Security Technical Review Operations Revenue 147