The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 8, 2019

The facial expressions of the new recruits have changed from that filled with a nervous energy and excitement to that of a dull mundane look; ideally reserved for an employee in the same dead-end job for 5 years. But, if your Employee On-boarding Trainings are even slightly like this, it’s time to take massive action. Let’s dive in.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 12, 2011

You’re not just hiring any old programmer or salesman, you’re hiring employee #1. Right, so it doesn’t matter with your first few employees either. I don’t care if the job description is “sit in that corner and work multi-variate differential equations.” Write a crazy job description.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 29, 2016

Hiring junior, or less experienced employees and keeping them once they are trained is a big challenge. These kinds of services are gaps in the market that, once filled, should allow any company to use security as a differentiator when competing to supply services or goods as part of a larger supply chain. .

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

A recent Gartner report clearly illustrated the need for recognition of quality performance for employees. The report states, “Recognizing a job well done is a proven method of increasing employee morale and engagement. You should differentiate expertise by segment, for example all of the employees within a department.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2019

In order to comfortably ensure that your startup is hiring the right type of employees, keep these tips at the forefront of your mind. Always consider flexibility, creativity, and problem-solving skills , as those are the ones that may differentiate a standard applicant from the right candidate. Know what and who you’re looking for.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2022

These days, many entrepreneurs are motivated to help the disadvantaged, such as TOMS shoes founder Blake Mycoskie, who differentiated his brand by donating a pair to the needy for every pair sold. In today’s economy, with more and more employees working remotely , assessing trust may seem especially difficult.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

They look for the use of talent analytics, such as productivity per employee, as well as the practices and attitude toward employee satisfaction. Processes must be in place to clearly define standards, differentiate performance, link to consequences, provide rewards for accountability, and provide regular follow-up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2023

A UVP sells a product or service because it differentiates it from other products or services that are available. The first steps are effective communication to your clients, employee participation, and partnering with other organizations that have similar initiatives. Reach your target audience intimately through interaction.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 29, 2020

In the past, working remotely was considered “normal” for entrepreneurs or independent contractors in the gig economy only, but organizations wanted employees, and consultants, to be onsite and working in the office. Employees clearly want and enjoy the flexibility. This greatly narrowed the talent pool. It’s a win-win.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 17, 2024

A recent essay covered the ‘AI gold rush’ and as it related to startups operating in this area, very much ‘caution ahead’ in terms of building a sustainable, differentiated business. HW: nerd processor, your weekly newsletter , is great! KS: Isn’t this the trillion-dollar question? And that’s still where Textio is today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2020

A UVP sells a product or service because it differentiates it from other products or services that are available. The first steps are effective communication to your clients, employee participation, and partnering with other organizations that have similar initiatives. Reach your target audience intimately through interaction.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Here are 4 reasons why employers need to provide a financial security benefit to their employees as part of their offering. And, when an employer’s price tag to purchase that insurance for a family now exceeds $20,000 a year, it is painful for employers to witness their employee “benefit” suddenly become an employee “liability.”

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Transformify

APRIL 3, 2019

Employee engagement is a concern for most business leaders, posing an even bigger challenge for those with an out-of-sight remote team. Focusing on the overall ‘employee experience’ may be key to attracting and retaining an engaged remote workforce. Changing workforce.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In essence, as a contractor, you are a consultant who is competing regularly for new work, and you constantly have to differentiate your offering from other candidates, including price. Here are some key strategies that I recommend to every worker today: Develop and highlight your competitive differentiation.

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entrepreMusings

AUGUST 24, 2016

Please vote, comment on, and share our panel idea: Customer Differentiation in Competitive Markets before September 2, 2016. Happy Customers = Happy Employees = Happy Customers! It’s been over 7 years since I submitted a panel idea to SxSW Interactive and now the time has come to do it again.

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Up and Running

APRIL 12, 2012

Every business needs to differentiate itself, to find a way to show the world how it’s unique and different. “It is hard to find motivated, hard-working team members that understand your mission,” she says, though she now has 13 employees who do just that.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Its use helps to significantly save time for both the manager and ordinary employees. One of the most compelling arguments in favor of custom software development is that it allows business owners to differentiate their products from the competition. Using CRM in a company is a no-brainer because of its many advantages.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2019

VC’s have just changed the ~50-year old social contract with startup employees. For most startup employee’s startup stock options are now a bad deal. As Venture Capital emerged as an industry in the mid 1970’s, investors in venture-funded startups began to give stock options to all their employees. Here’s why.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 18, 2018

The result of these vulnerabilities is that we hire the wrong candidates, listen to the wrong people, and fail to differentiate our businesses. Then identify the questions that you need to ask potential employees. Managers and employees encounter false expertise in three ways: Promotions. You may uncover current biases.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 29, 2021

I’m often surprised when you as an aspiring entrepreneur, looking for investors, tell me your solution is so innovative that you don’t have to worry about differentiating it from competitors, and customers will flock to it without a real marketing campaign. Personalization is the ultimate differentiation.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Sam also had a vision as early as 2012 about how MakeSpace would be a large employer of middle-income jobs: The company would hire employees rather than just have contractors and he would lead the effort to ensure they had opportunities for growth and benefits for their families.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

I agree with John Spence, in his book “ Awesomely Simple ,” that in a world of nearly limitless product options and highly educated consumers with instant access to price, features, and benefits of almost every product, delivering consistently superior customer service is the only differentiator left for creating loyal and engaged customers.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 8, 2020

When conceptualizing his business plan, Raef Hamaed knew that he had to differentiate his business from that of competing pharmacies. He recognized the potential large-scale negativity created by a particular employee with a consistently poor attitude. Success Starts Within.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2024

The future of AI lies in developing models that can understand the context and differentiate between right and wrong answers. Russ also consults and trains employees of companies through his Digital Advisor program. He’s the Founder of theCLIKK, an email newsletter about digital marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2021

Recognize that employee morale impacts your brand. If employee morale is down, your brand will be negatively impacted. Ask employees for feedback, and commit to fix problems before you feel brand impact. Differentiate your brand based on a higher cause. There are many comparable examples of big hits.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2018

In top current companies, such as Google, Apple, and Netflix, cultural strategies that include greater employee freedom and fostering creativity are the norm. In fact, most see a more direct relationship between customers and their business success, so employee focus by default will end up in third place. Start today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Moving these employees to first place, ahead of their solution focus, doesn’t happen automatically or easily. Once a product-first, customer-second, and employee-last culture is set, it is extremely hard to change. They practice one of the most important leadership tenets from an employee perspective – humility.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Finding good quality employees is probably the single most important thing you can do to ensure that your business runs smoothly. Hourly employees make up over 60% of the general workforce; however, retaining quality employees may be difficult. Employee Engagement. Employees want to know that their opinions matter.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

When you hire others to work for you, employment contracts are vital to outlining what is expected of employees, the terms of their employment, company policies, ownership of intellectual property, and certain financial agreements. Despite the importance of employee contracts, many startups make certain common mistakes with them.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Benefits for employees are incentives that increase their sense of fulfillment and job satisfaction. Health savings accounts, flexible spending accounts, life and disability insurance, and medical, retirement, and vacation plans are widely available employee perks. They also use visual or video resources to complement the text.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 15, 2022

However, the same generation is also infamous for low rates of employee engagement. After all, employee engagement has a direct correlation with business success. This insight by Forbes explains why employee engagement is a buzzword in the modern business world. The same is the case when it comes to your employees.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2023

With pervasive access to social media, customers no longer differentiate poor product repair and replacement from a poor shopping experience or customer usage satisfaction. In all cases, employees can only make the right decisions if they know and share your vision, values, and priorities for the business.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Generally-speaking, isn’t it better to bang your drum about your idea with better hopes to attract co-founders, employees, advisors, capital, and other important continents to make your company successful? But I believe the risk of another someone literally copying an entrepreneur’s startup idea is largely overperceived and overweighted.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 8, 2017

It defines what the company does for its employees. If you gave an employee or customer a blind screening test, asking her to read your your mission statement and four others without identifying which is which, would she be able to tell which mission statement was yours? Define what your business does for its employees.

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2012

“The way we differentiate ourselves is that we’re much more than a platform. Any organization can visit our site and launch a one-off campaign,” he explains, or subscribe to WeDidIt for unlimited campaigns and premium features like consultation and customized software.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 30, 2024

Maintaining a safe work environment is not just a regulatory requirement but a moral obligation that impacts employees’ lives and well-being. By investing in such education, companies not only adhere to ethical standards but also empower their employees, leading to a more competent and safety-conscious workforce.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

AUGUST 17, 2021

There is no denying that issues with payroll can spark controversy amongst employees and it can have a damaging effect on productivity. Can you easily differentiate between employees and what they are owed? So, it is in your best interests to not overshadow this department and do everything you can to improve it.

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