Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2017

Of course, it’s no surprise that most entrepreneurs don’t have a background in hiring teams, and don’t have a budget for training or human resource consultants. He comments that in spite of the digital revolution, the hiring process hasn’t changed from its low priority, last minute, subjective roots.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

One of the most stressful and unanticipated challenges that comes with starting a new business is hiring and managing employees. While this approach appears to cost more on the surface, it often actually costs you less, when you consider the hidden costs of rework, poor customer satisfaction, employee management, and training required.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Even after many years mentoring entrepreneurs and advising businesses, I continue to be surprised by the primary focus on products and processes, and the often incidental attention to hiring and nurturing the right people. Don’t let one incident, observation, rumor, or misunderstanding cause a rush to judgement, or hiring mistake.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2022

As a potential investor, I always think of the high rate of failure of disruptive technologies, due to the longer learning curve of customers, infrastructure change consistently required, and higher marketing costs. If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. Be sure to hire and cultivate new talent with the right mindset.

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Transformify

JUNE 29, 2023

Meanwhile, businesses are increasingly relying on off-payroll talent and contingent workforce solutions to access specialized skills, reduce costs, and increase flexibility. To learn or improve this skill, you can read books and guides from renowned writers and copywriters, such as Ann Handley, Seth Godin, Joanna Wiebe, etc.,

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 3, 2017

Too often, you’ll find new business owners spending hours answering emails, returning phone calls, scheduling appointments, and booking travel. If you’re a first-time entrepreneur, I’m willing to bet you work longer hours than necessary trying to manage easily outsourced tasks. Wearing Your Many Hats With Style.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Even after many years mentoring entrepreneurs and advising businesses, I continue to be surprised by the primary focus on products and processes, and the often incidental attention to hiring and nurturing the right people. Don’t let one incident, observation, rumor, or misunderstanding cause a rush to judgement, or hiring mistake.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

In both cases, it’s easy for them to become frustrated and give up, since most have never been trained in change management, and don’t even know what questions to ask. Phil Buckley, in his book “ Change With Confidence ,” provides practical answers to fifty of the biggest questions that keep change leaders up at night.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 19, 2023

The Benefits of Hiring A Virtual Assistant For Your Business Growth written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Rob Levin In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Rob Levin. He is also the managing member of the Oasis Strategy Group and CEO of RSL Media.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

What few people know is that Buffett is not just a savvy investor but a great manager and business leader. Quoting from the book: “.if Find a Manager with the Right Qualities. Find a Manager with the Right Qualities. Buffett looks for managers and leaders with integrity, intelligence, and a passion for the business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Thus I was pleased to see the evidence confirming that perspective in a new book, “ The Amazon Management System ,” by Ram Charan and Julia Yang. In my view, every startup in today’s world would do well to adopt a management system with the same key objectives: Start with a customer-obsessed business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2018

These approaches allow your startup to grow more rapidly, save costs, but costly mistakes can lead to business failure. There are many books written on this subject, but this classic by Chris Ducker, “ Virtual Freedom ,” manages to pack a lot more practical guidance into a small space that many others I have seen.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This blog aims to guide you through the process, from the initial steps of conducting market research to operational management, hiring staff, and more. Be mindful of rent or purchase costs, accessibility for staff and customers, as well as estimated commuting times. From booking appointments to post-cleaning care instructions.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Aside from visionary management, this is your most important job. Many of us go through the motions of hiring to fill a position, trying to use our intuition and skills to find the best candidate for the job. Bradford Smart captured this succinctly in his book, Topgrading. Most of us are “far too busy” to do all of that.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As a startup in this phase you often raise capital, get press, hire staff and everything feels possible. MakeSpace (as he named it) would help you get your excess goods into low-cost warehouses. How long does it take me to pay back my original customer acquisition costs? As an early-stage VC I love this phase.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The book Regulatory Hacking calls this diagram the Power Map. The books The Fixer and Regulatory Hacking give examples of regulatory pitfalls, problems and suggested solutions.) Hire/advisors from the inside industry but use them to make you smarter not just to outsource the work. Get outside advice at each step.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JANUARY 24, 2021

Business events are a brilliant tool for marketing and networking, but when you consider the cost, they’re not always the most efficient strategy. The easiest way to do that is to cut the cost of hosting the event in the first place. Before you plan your next business event, make sure that you keep these cost-cutting tips in mind.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Executive summary and mission statement Industry analysis Customer analysis Competitor analysis Online market analysis Products and services Marketing plan and analysis Financial plan Location and delivery Management team and staff. Not to mention managing a business online comes with incredible flexibility. Executive summary.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2014

These approaches allow your startup to grow more rapidly, save costs, but costly mistakes can lead to business failure. There are many books written on this subject, but a recent one by Chris Ducker, “ Virtual Freedom ,” manages to pack a lot more practical guidance into a small space that many others I have seen.

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Up and Running

JULY 28, 2022

Partnership – Formed by two or more owners in agreement on how to start, manage and operate a business. You’ll need the EIN to pay taxes for your business, apply for licenses and permits, open a bank account, and hire and pay employees. It covers creations such as music, books, sculpture, paintings, and films.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

” So Ethan went to work as a product manager at Google Video. He had an idea for a startup that would help consumers better book service jobs and would take on Service Magic, which he believed had a business model that could be disrupted. In industry this is known as “yield management” and of course it needs to exist.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

(Almost) everything you need to know (but are afraid to ask) before you wistfully ask a product manager to coffee so they will help you find a job. TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2019

Recently I found a new book, “ The Success Cadence ,” by David Mattson, Tom Schodorf, and Bart Fanelli, which summarized well the people and culture challenges, and how to overcome them. For example, a “quality first” message is negated if you minimize testing to reduce product costs. Evidence of ineffective hiring and recruiting.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 30, 2013

. Most business owners dread having to talk with and hire lawyers. In a minute, I’ll share tips on how your small business or startup can hire a good lawyer for your business. Here are my tips on how your small business or startup can hire a good lawyer without losing your shirt: 1. How to hire lawyers that add value.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 10, 2013

Many smaller companies that provide creative services struggle every day to manage their capacity and their overhead. Other months, when business is slow, managers are left trying to keep their employees occupied and struggle to make the books balance. For just this reason many companies maintain a rolodex (remember those?)

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Diving into the financials, dealing with vendors, the hiring process, or a variety of other tasks—no one is passionate about every facet of business operations. In short, creating a business plan early on will make starting, managing, and growing your business easier. Just to be clear, maintaining clean books is the baseline.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2021

It could be more revenue, hiring clients, or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. As a result of the pandemic, not everyone has managed to hold onto their work. Thanks to Sean Kelly, Book Retreats.com ! #9- 19- Hiring people for exponential growth.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2024

How to Hire a Fractional CMO: The Smart Way to Scale written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Are you looking at your business goals and feeling your marketing strategy just isn’t cutting it? This is where hiring a fractional CMO can make a significant difference. When should I hire a fractional CMO?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

If you hire 6 sales reps in January at $120,000 / year salary then you’ve taken on an extra $60,000 per month in costs yet these sales people might not close new business for 4-6 months. So your Q1 results will be $180,000 less profitable than if you hadn’t hired them. Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) =.

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Board Effect

JULY 10, 2023

Large for-profit corporations with multiple facilities also have the benefit of using their own resources, such as in-house legal counsel and special consultants, rather than hiring outside professionals. Not using governance technology could cost your board time, energy, and money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2015

These approaches allow your startup to grow more rapidly, save costs, but costly mistakes can lead to business failure. There are many books written on this subject, but one just last year by Chris Ducker, “ Virtual Freedom ,” manages to pack a lot more practical guidance into a small space that many others I have seen.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2023

His new book, Never Lose an Employee Again: The Simple Path to Remarkable Retention , offers a proven framework for increasing employees retention, engagement, and in the process, profits. Questions I ask Joey Coleman: [02:42] what’s the real cost of employee turnover? [04:04] You know, what's the real cost of turnover?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2014

Small businesses are more likely to hire an outside accountant who is versed in managing books, creating reporting systems, and preparing corporate taxes. Keeping the books. Having help with this aspect of managing a small company can be indispensable, and the time it can free for a busy manager, invaluable.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 18, 2024

Visit DTM world slash scale to book your free advisory call and learn more. Book your call today, DTM World slash scale. (01:03): She's also the author of a book we're going to talk about today, the Hands-Off, CEO, triple Your Fees and Profitably Scale, an exceptional consulting agency that Grows Without You.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 2, 2022

We have also managed our company budgets successfully and avoided unnecessary spending. I'm proud that we've managed to bring in more clients and keep our existing clients happy. I'm proud of the fact that we've managed to bring down costs and managed to solve many of the problems we initially had.

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OnlyOnce

JULY 9, 2013

Startup CEO (OnlyOnce – the book!), My book, Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business , is now available for pre-order on Amazon in multiple formats ( Print , Kindle ), which is an exciting milestone in this project! Writing a book is a LOT harder than I expected! Part III – Pre-Order Now. questions”.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Whether it was the cost of wholesale fruit, new competition or even my own attitude, I wanted stay on top of every element making a difference. It’s your recipes, your hiring practices and your bookkeeping. Business thrives when all three factors are monitored and managed. How can you decrease costs and increase efficiency?

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