Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Find the right investment advisor, or member of your advisory board, and the “match-making” will happen. entrepreneur startup angel funding match Paul Graham business' These are angel investors who are private, meaning they don’t go to meetings, but will invest if someone they trust brings them an attractive opportunity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Outside of work is where you can best evaluate the chemistry match, and decide whether you can enjoy and learn from the relationship. Check for positive or negative news articles, press releases, relationships, and support of community organizations. Invite the investor to dinner or fun-related activity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2023

Match your office, facilities and computer equipment to the size of the staff you have today, and intend to have in the next six months. The timing of cash flow is everything. Waiting until you have something to sell before bringing on a sales and operations staff. Getting a sales contract before manufacturing inventory.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2020

My bottom-line recommendation and theirs is that every visionary entrepreneur needs to be matched with a cofounder or key team member who has the required execution attributes. They enjoy the coaching and development role, and are able to match work assignments to people’s strengths, promoting both people and company growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Then make sure that everyone on the team does the same, and are motivated to improve the match with your startup. This means personally listening, understanding, and responding to your customers’ evolving needs and shifting expectations. Seek out complaining and lost customers for the most important input.

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Technical Review Salary Metrics Matching 249

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2020

If the shopping process, delivery, and support level does not match their expectations, no innovative product features will compensate. In my experience, the place to start is selecting your desired customer segment first, and then matching it with one of the following generic branding models, to best fit your desired customer segment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2022

There seems to be an insatiable demand from consumers for a better shopping experience, meaning they will pay a premium to a company that can present them a better match in products to their interests, without jeopardizing their good name.

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Technical Review Customer Social Network Software Review 342

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2020

Here are some tips on the right approach and the right points to hit: Match your material to the time allotted. Then match your pace to cover all the material. Investors are more interested in your solution and your business, rather than your technology. If you have ten minutes, that means no more than ten slides.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2019

The challenge is to recognize and recruit that ideal partner match early with minimal cost and risk. By using this checklist, you should be able to objectively match potential partners with your own needs and expectations. In fact, I would broaden the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.”

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Cofounder Software Review CTO Hire Founder 221

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2023

From her two decades of experience at Salesforce, Gartner, and consulting, she offers a unique perspective on what it takes to create a balanced focus on improving employee experiences to match customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2023

If you find more than a dozen solutions that loosely match your idea, it may be time to skip that one and try another. Even if the idea sounds unique to you, it’s worth your time to do a few Internet searches using relevant keywords. Don’t forget to consider customer alternatives, like trains versus airplanes.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Intellectual Property Internet 267

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

There is no substitute for market research to confirm that your passion matches a real need in the market. Even non-profits need a profitable business model to offset staff and operating costs. Assume passion level defines business opportunity. Not every great idea is a viable business.

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Intellectual Property Startup Angel Investor Viral 312

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Service organizations must find effective ways to manage capacity and thereby match the supply and timeliness of services with customers’ usage of them. In all cases, experience details are quickly and easily communicated to others via Facebook or Yelp, meaning a relationship will impact many others very quickly.

Technical Review 247

Technical Review Social Media Media Matching 247

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2022

In fact, his analysis of current statistics and many case studies leads both of us to recommend a focus on a set of key hiring principles that shouldn’t come as a surprise, but don’t seem to get followed very often these days by new companies, or even the more mature ones: Look for a cultural fit before a skill match.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Every company and team develops a unique culture of work flexibility, personality, and communication that must be matched to every new hire, independent of job qualifications. Failure to include company culture in the hiring criteria. Thus every serious candidate should be vetted and approved by peers, as well as company executives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2022

You may feel good when that first burst of customers arrives, but don’t assume that “ word of mouth ” and those early adopters will grow your business to match your dreams of success. I have learned from experience that scaling any business is difficult. They won’t find you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2023

The leadership challenge is to find the training or mentoring to fill the skill gap, or to find a new role that is a better match for the skills they do have. These are people who simply don’t have the skills they need to do the required job. The leadership capital, and other costs to support square pegs is a huge startup resource drain.

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Employee Leadership Cofounder Matching 267

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2020

If you find more than a dozen solutions that loosely match your idea, it may be time to skip that one and try another. Even if the idea sounds unique to you, it’s worth your time to do a few Internet searches using relevant keywords. Don’t forget to consider customer alternatives, like trains versus airplanes.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Intellectual Property Internet 434

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2023

Look for a match in culture and values, as well as technical strength. Just like executive recruiters recognize the best executives, a technical expert in your business domain will recognize the right combination of skill, creativity, and experience you need for a cofounder or key team member.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2021

Then make sure that everyone on the team does the same, and are motivated to improve the match with your startup. This means personally listening, understanding, and responding to your customers’ evolving needs and shifting expectations. Seek out complaining and lost customers for the most important input.

Technical Review 385

Technical Review Salary Metrics Matching 385

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Through social media and customer interaction, you must convince customers that your culture matches theirs. Entrepreneurs who fail to invest in establishing rapport with their customers will suffer the same consequences as sales people who don’t put themselves in the shoes of their prospects.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2019

Prioritize roles by value-creation potential on the go-forward strategy, match the best talent to priority roles, and operationalize the talent match process to ensure that it is regularly revisited. Notice that each of these steps has both a performance and a business health component.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Match your office, facilities and computer equipment to the size of the staff you have today, and intend to have in the next six months. The timing of cash flow is everything. Waiting until you have something to sell before bringing on a sales and operations staff. Getting a sales contract before manufacturing inventory.

Burn Rate 310

Burn Rate Hockey Stick Salary Angel Investor 310

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2020

There is no substitute for market research to confirm that your passion matches a real need in the market. Even non-profits need a profitable business model to offset staff and operating costs. Assume passion level defines business opportunity. Not every great idea is a viable business.

Intellectual Property 436

Intellectual Property Angel Investor Viral Distribution 436

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

The Entrepreneurial Perspective starts with a picture of a well-defined future, and then comes back to the present with the intention of changing it to match the vision. The Technician’s Perspective sees the business as a place in which people work to produce inside results for the Technician, producing employee income.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

But for those of you who are a real match for the entrepreneur lifestyle, that’s what makes it fun. Yet, even by following all these principles, don’t expect it to be easy. The odds are still stacked against you, and the volatility of new markets make it even more challenging.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Service organizations must find effective ways to manage capacity and thereby match the supply and timeliness of services with customers’ usage of them. In all cases, experience details are quickly and easily communicated to others via Facebook or Yelp, meaning a relationship will impact many others very quickly.

Technical Review 321

Technical Review Social Media Media Matching 321

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2015

Thus it behooves every entrepreneur to pick the startup model that best matches their real motivation. The exciting part about being an entrepreneur is that you can tailor the role to match your real motivations. Here are six considerations to get you started on the right startup: Invented a solution to a painful existing problem.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Make sure they match before you commit. The last thing you need in a startup is a false start, where you can’t deliver on a product change deadline, or a new marketing channel. Deliverables and the resources you have to achieve them are two sides of the same equation. How do I measure success?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Labor rates are lower in some countries, but culture and language match are the real keys to productivity. Hire and train your own managers for internal and external work projects. With the high-speed Internet, our workers can be anywhere in the world.” As with real estate, it’s still about location, location, location.

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Entrepreneur Philippines Bandwidth Cofounder 303

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2020

Every company and team develops a unique culture of work flexibility, personality, and communication that must be matched to every new hire, independent of job qualifications. Failure to include company culture in the hiring criteria. Thus every serious candidate should be vetted and approved by peers, as well as company executives.

Hiring 339

Hiring Matching Cost Internet 339

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2020

Outside of work is where you can best evaluate the chemistry match, and decide whether you can enjoy and learn from the relationship. Check for positive or negative news articles, press releases, relationships, and support of community organizations. Invite the investor to dinner or fun-related activity.

Technical Review 310

Technical Review Due Diligence Term Sheet Offshore 310

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2020

They are still nowhere near the rate required to match the yearly total of 486 hit way back in 1999. According to TheStreet , US IPO market results in Q2 2020 posted a strong bounce-back from Q1 with 58 IPOs, after a slow start due to the Covid19 pandemic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2020

The leadership challenge is to find the training or mentoring to fill the skill gap, or to find a new role that is a better match for the skills they do have. These are people who simply don’t have the skills they need to do the required job. The leadership capital, and other costs to support square pegs is a huge startup resource drain.

Leadership 317

Leadership Entrepreneur Cofounder Matching 317

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2017

The challenge is to recognize and recruit that ideal partner match early with minimal cost and risk. By using this checklist, you should be able to objectively match potential partners with your own needs and expectations. In fact, I would broaden the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.”

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Partner Software Review CTO Hire Cofounder 140

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

In addition, they often find the need to pivot as they learn more out their customer needs and solution match to the market. Every new business finds it impossible to project growth and service needs, since they have no experience or history to guide them.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Startup Employee 308

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2016

By Ernst Gemassmer, Chairman, Startup Professionals As a retired executive I now reflect on my own leadership styles in different situations during my extensive career. My leadership style has evolved over time and I am wondering whether this is related to increasing experience or different situations.

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