Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2020

New smartphone apps cost only a few thousand, if you have the programming skills. Choose projects with financial resources within your reach. These days, you can build a new e-commerce website to sell home-made wares for a few hundred dollars.

Technical Review 434

Technical Review Due Diligence Intellectual Property Internet 434

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 23, 2021

Studies show that peer recognition programs are often more effective than bonuses or cash rewards. At any Ritz-Carlton , for example, employees are trained well, and authorized to spend up to $2,000 per guest, without pre-approval, to solve a guest issue or improve a guest's stay. Incent and reward employees who delight customers.

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Customer Technical Review Metrics Employee 369

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Zappos, for example, has earned global accolades for their strategic “ Zappos dollars ” peer-to-peer recognition program, where employees share low-cost, high-frequency rewards with each other. It also means providing private and specific feedback to people with a negative attitude, since many do not see themselves as others see them.

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Employee Salary Hiring Stock 371

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Getting a fixed price bid works for well-defined short-term projects, like blogging or programming. Ideal outsourced tasks are outside your core competency, can be specified in detail, and managed with quantified deliverables and checkpoints. Fixed price bidding is the only effective outsourcing model.”

Entrepreneur 303

Entrepreneur Philippines Bandwidth Cofounder 303

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2021

Look for special programs for entrepreneurs, like the Arizona State University Furnace Technology Transfer Accelerator program that I am familiar with, available to non-students. Every university has entrepreneurial courses or evening classes that can provide assistance on creating your initial plan. Early-stage funding.

Arizona 432

Arizona Phoenix Intellectual Property Incubator 432

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 31, 2023

The fuel for any good demand generation program is relevant, buyer-centric content. You need to track what content is resonating with your prospective customers, through metrics including submit rate by content offer, elasticity, velocity, cost, and ultimately revenue by content program. Lead-stage content performance.

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Demand Metrics NPV Net Present Value 256

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2021

Luck and timing are inevitably less certain than product build schedules or marketing programs. When circumstances conspire to give your efforts unexpected momentum, it’s essential to be able to respond quickly and ride your luck, rather than remain strictly wedded to a plan or a strategy that hadn’t accounted for the new dynamic.

Marketing 317

Marketing Social Media Affiliate Viral 317

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2020

The fuel for any good demand generation program is relevant, buyer-centric content. You need to track what content is resonating with your prospective customers, through metrics including submit rate by content offer, elasticity, velocity, cost, and ultimately revenue by content program. Lead-stage content performance.

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NPV Net Present Value Conversion Ratio Marketing 436

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2014

It’s easy in a new business to inject a fun rivalry and a competitive spirit into improving your marketing programs, or improving production cycles. It is programmed to seek out the negative and optimize survival, and is always watching for signs of “lack and attack.” Celebrate each small step of success along the way.

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Programming Entrepreneur Product Partner 245

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2019

I like how she was able to motivate, train, and reward employees, including the implementation of an incentive program to get every member of the team actively involved in generating new business. She also identifies the typical myths against using this approach, and describes how to overcome each one: “Entrepreneurs are born, not made.”

Employee 222

Employee Technical Review Hiring Lead Generation 222

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2023

For example, consider CVS Health's Project Health program, which directed teams to provide free health screenings to disadvantaged and underserved patient populations. For your own happiness and satisfaction, I recommend you start instead working from that higher purpose and passion.

Community 286

Community Social Media Metrics Programming 286

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2019

There is a big gap between people who love to try new technologies, and the rest of us, who tend to be much more “technophobic.”

Technical Review 255

Technical Review Dilution Early Stage Product Development 255

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2012

It’s easy in a new business to inject a fun rivalry and a competitive spirit into improving your marketing programs, or improving production cycles. It is programmed to seek out the negative and optimize survival, and is always watching for signs of “lack and attack.” Celebrate each small step of success along the way.

Programming 250

Programming Entrepreneur Partner Design 250

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

When your changed culture becomes a part of you, your hiring processes, company-wide messaging, and leadership development programs, you start to remove the “all slogans” and “no action” perception, and it becomes ingrained into the DNA of your business. It’s about turning personal values into repeatable behaviors.

Leadership 291

Leadership Agile Metrics Programming 291

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2018

Getting a fixed price bid works for well-defined short-term projects, like blogging or programming. Ideal outsourced tasks are outside your core competency, can be specified in detail, and managed with quantified deliverables and checkpoints. Fixed price bidding is the only effective outsourcing model.”

Philippines 181

Philippines Bandwidth Cofounder Affiliate 181

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2023

According to Harvard Business School professor John Kotter, only thirty percent of all change programs succeed. Create mentorship programs and conduct positive team building activities both off-site and on-site. Make yours happen positively. Connection – build interpersonal glue with each.

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Leadership Programming Employee Restful 212

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2011

It’s easy in a new business to inject a fun rivalry and a competitive spirit into improving your marketing programs, or improving production cycles. It is programmed to seek out the negative and optimize survival, and is always watching for signs of “lack and attack.” Celebrate each small step of success along the way.

Entrepreneur 262

Entrepreneur Programming Partner Design 262

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

New smartphone apps cost only a few thousand, if you have the programming skills. Choose projects with financial resources within your reach. These days, you can build a new e-commerce website to sell home-made wares for a few hundred dollars. Minimize infrastructure dependencies.

Technical Review 208

Technical Review Due Diligence Intellectual Property Internet 208

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Some people are very good as defining metrics, roll-out programs, and reward systems for marketing and sales programs. Great people leadership and communication skills are critical here, as well as managing an organization. Rallying the team also requires that they be rewarded for progress and success.

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Metrics Early Stage Finance Programming 272

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Take advantage of free startup programs and mentors. Both provide entrepreneurial “head start” programs for aspiring entrepreneurs, free legal guidance, and access to experienced staff members. He learned quickly that several pivots were required for business, legal, and customer acceptance reasons.

Entrepreneur 394

Entrepreneur Arizona Incubator Programming 394

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2022

They utilize a variety of peer and team-leader programs, both formal and informal. Studies show that public peer recognition programs are often more effective than big bonuses or cash rewards.

Leadership 319

Leadership Framework Programming Channel 319

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2015

It’s easy in a new business to inject a fun rivalry and a competitive spirit into improving your marketing programs, or improving production cycles. It is programmed to seek out the negative and optimize survival, and is always watching for signs of “lack and attack.” Celebrate each small step of success along the way.

Programming 120

Programming Entrepreneur Partner Design 120

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2023

Overall I like the principles in the classic book “ Robert’s Rules of Innovation: A 10-Step Program for Corporate Survival ,” by Robert F. In my experience, finding real innovation in existing company environments is even tougher.

Intellectual Property 343

Intellectual Property Metrics .Net Social Network 343

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2023

In my opinion, real pain points for most people do not include a new user interface for Facebook, a new programming platform for app development, or a new size smart phone. Entrepreneurs who search for real pain points, and build solutions around them, have the best chance of changing the world.

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China California Government Global 295

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2012

Creative products, like chip design programs, architectural rendering, or consumer games are not easily outsourced. Software services, on the other hand, involve the creation of software customized for a specific situation, with a relatively low level of leverage and reuse. Creative or operational.

Intellectual Property 222

Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Non-Compete Vietnam 222

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2017

I like how she was able to motivate, train, and reward employees, including the implementation of an incentive program to get every member of the team actively involved in generating new business. She also identifies the typical myths against using this approach, and describes how to overcome each one: “Entrepreneurs are born, not made.”

Employee 173

Employee Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review 173

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2014

I like how she was able to motivate, train, and reward employees, including the implementation of an incentive program to get every member of the team actively involved in generating new business. She also identifies the typical myths against using this approach, and describes how to overcome each one: “Entrepreneurs are born, not made.”

Startup 262

Startup Technical Review Employee Hiring 262

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2014

Getting a fixed price bid works for well-defined short-term projects, like blogging or programming. Ideal outsourced tasks are outside your core competency, can be specified in detail, and managed with quantified deliverables and checkpoints. Fixed price bidding is the only effective outsourcing model.”

Entrepreneur 231

Entrepreneur Philippines Bandwidth Cofounder 231

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

This approach works best if you start with a focus on hiring change agents, and incentive programs for innovation. Everyone in a company should be encouraged to spend fully one-fifth of their time pursuing ideas for positive change, even if it is outside the core job or core mission of the company.

Artificial Inteligence 285

Artificial Inteligence Open Source Lean Leadership 285

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

New smartphone apps cost only a few thousand, if you have the programming skills. Choose projects with financial resources within your reach. These days, you can build a new e-commerce website to sell home-made wares for a few hundred dollars. Minimize infrastructure dependencies.

Technical Review 267

Technical Review Due Diligence Entrepreneur Intellectual Property 267

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2017

There is a big gap between people who love to try new technologies, and the rest of us, who tend to be much more “technophobic.”

Customer 191

Customer Entrepreneur Technical Review Dilution 191

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Obviously, commercial e-commerce sites handling thousands of products and back-office functions are more expensive, and usually require professional help to do the custom programming and special site navigation features. All this may cost a few thousand dollars, but don’t get talked into an Amazon.com replacement just yet.

Startup 252

Startup eCommerce Hosting Bootstrapping 252

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Long-term success requires planning for leader development in every organization, rotation of high-potential employees through key roles, and support for outside executive education programs. Growing the company means growing people through mentoring and training. Balance your own life for the long haul.

Startup 343

Startup Metrics Hiring Leadership 343

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2013

Schedule and run the necessary sessions to update strategic product offerings, processes, and marketing programs. Distribute an Executive Summary and Recommendations report, as well as transcripts of your interviews, to all the key players in your company. Align your business model to how your customers want to buy.

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Revenue Startup Technical Review Business Model 263

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2019

An employee of Sun Microsystems, James Gosling, created a new object-oriented programming language called Oak in 1995. Yet there is sometimes greater value in being very deliberate at calculating risk and making more thought-out proposals for change. He de-risked it initially by using it to set up client Time Warner cable boxes.

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Employee Java Architecture Technical Review 133

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Dr. Tabrizi is a renowned business transformation advocate with decades of experience with executive programs at Stanford University, Harvard Business School, and his own consulting practice. In terms of specifics, with action items that you can start now, I like the strategies outlined in a new book, “ Going On Offense ,” by Behnam Tabrizi.

Agile 294

Agile Acquisition Analytics Restful 294

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2011

Creative products, like chip design programs, architectural rendering, or consumer games are not easily outsourced. Software services, on the other hand, involve the creation of software customized for a specific situation, with a relatively low level of leverage and reuse. Creative or operational.

Intellectual Property 225

Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Non-Compete Vietnam 225