Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2021

In my experience, providing people leadership is the tougher challenge, but the more critical one. As a long-time business advisor and mentor to entrepreneurs, I consistently find that the most thriving businesses are people-centric, and those team members create the best processes, rather than the other way around.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2015

It seems like every entrepreneur I meet these days is quick to proclaim themselves a visionary, expecting that will give more credibility to their startup idea, and improve their odds with investors. Most true visionary entrepreneurs have unusual energy, creativity, enthusiasm, and a propensity for taking risks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2021

As an advisor to new entrepreneurs and new ventures, I’m seeing a refreshing new focus by Millennials on work and successful new companies with a purpose, and more productivity through happy employees. Are you one of those people who believe that happiness at work is an oxymoron?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. That’s where I see too much entrepreneur burnout, growth plateaus, and founders being replaced, to their chagrin. Of course, not every entrepreneur wants to tackle this challenge. There is no free lunch.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 17, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Empower Your Small Business: Steve Jobs on management/leadership, disaster planning, great customer service – [link]. The Manual-First Startup – [link].

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David Cohen

JANUARY 12, 2021

“ Thoughtful leadership evolution in growing and scaling companies is healthy. Maëlle has been a leading technology executive and entrepreneur for over 15 years. Well, as fast growing companies mature they need leadership for the Board of Directors in addition to leadership for the company.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! LinkedIn’s Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs (annotated by Reid Hoffman) – crowdspring.co/1gIv7bI. Quora - crowdspring.co/1hUngFS. 1gp81qm.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

Many passionate entrepreneurs fight to add more features into their new products and services, assuming that more function will make the solution more appealing to more customers. Ongoing market leadership requires continuous innovation. Your personal bandwidth is quickly exceeded.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 23, 2013

Innovate to market leadership. Success requires market leadership in your product area, and it’s easy to see that pushing more products and services dilutes your focus and attention. Market leadership isn’t a one-time thing, it means continuous innovation, or you will be left behind. Personal bandwidth is limited.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. That’s where I see too much entrepreneur burnout, growth plateaus, and founders being replaced, to their chagrin. Of course, not every entrepreneur wants to tackle this challenge. There is no free lunch.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. That’s where I see too much entrepreneur burnout, growth plateaus, and Founders being replaced, to their chagrin. Of course, not every entrepreneur wants to tackle this challenge. There is no free lunch.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2020

Many passionate entrepreneurs fight to add more features into their new products and services, assuming that more function will make the solution more appealing to more customers. Ongoing market leadership requires continuous innovation. Your personal bandwidth is quickly exceeded.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2017

As an advisor to new entrepreneurs and new ventures, I’m seeing a refreshing new focus by Millennials on work and successful new companies with a purpose, and more productivity through happy employees. Are you one of those people who believe that happiness at work is an oxymoron?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 11, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The Scarcest Resource at Startups is Management Bandwidth – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2012

Innovate to market leadership. Success requires market leadership in your product area, and it’s easy to see that pushing more products and services dilutes your focus and attention. Market leadership isn’t a one-time thing, it means continuous innovation, or you will be left behind. Personal bandwidth is limited.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. That’s where I see too much entrepreneur burnout, growth plateaus, and founders being replaced, to their chagrin. Of course, not every entrepreneur wants to tackle this challenge. There is no free lunch.

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

 All entrepreneurs know how exciting it is to get customers and clients. By letting go of some unhealthier clients and focusing on the ones who have more potential, you free up valuable resources and bandwidth. The challenge comes when you have to manage them. What if I told you that more isn’t more? The results?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Innovate to market leadership. Success requires market leadership in your product area, and it’s easy to see that pushing more products and services dilutes your focus and attention. Market leadership isn’t a one-time thing, it means continuous innovation, or you will be left behind. Personal bandwidth is limited.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Proving market leadership. Success requires market leadership in your product area, and it’s easy to see that pushing more products and services dilutes your focus and attention. Market leadership isn’t a one-time thing, it means continuous innovation, or you will be left behind. Personal bandwidth is limited.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

2011 was finally the year when the media spotlight shone on how under-represented women are in almost all power structures in business, government, technology and media – and how crucial it is that we leverage the leadership skill set that they bring to the table to tackle the problems facing the world today.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

So over the course of a couple of weeks engineering cobbled up a board with dedicated silicon that could process the full bandwidth for NTSC and fill an entire window. Peter Barrett digitized some files and we delivered the board and computer to Bruce.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Many passionate entrepreneurs fight to add more features into their new products and services, assuming that more function will make the solution more appealing to more customers. Ongoing market leadership requires continuous innovation. Your personal bandwidth is quickly exceeded. entrepreneur focus startup'

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Where you can, engage with your management team, empowering and challenging them to step up to running the business while the leadership team focuses on the sale process. Engaging the right external resources to help with this is critical – you may not have the bandwidth across your existing team, so you need to judge this early.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Unlike other types of startup programs, NestGSV is an “ecobator,” an ecosystem plus incubator that brings the many participants in the innovation economy together under one roof so that entrepreneurs are surrounded with all the enablers they need. Some of them might even be graduates of accelerator programs. Sessions aren’t mandatory.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Unlike other types of startup programs, NestGSV is an “ecobator,” an ecosystem plus incubator that brings the many participants in the innovation economy together under one roof so that entrepreneurs are surrounded with all the enablers they need. Some of them might even be graduates of accelerator programs. Sessions aren’t mandatory.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2016

A single visionary entrepreneur almost always is the initial implementer of an innovative new venture, but that lone entrepreneur doesn’t have the bandwidth to grow the business alone. That’s a big transition, and many entrepreneurs never make it. Leadership requires focus and effort, and doesn’t happen by title.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2015

Many passionate entrepreneurs fight to add more features into their new products and services, assuming that more function will make the solution more appealing to more customers. Ongoing market leadership requires continuous innovation. Your personal bandwidth is quickly exceeded.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Unlike other types of startup programs, NestGSV is an “ecobator,” an ecosystem plus incubator that brings the many participants in the innovation economy together under one roof so that entrepreneurs are surrounded with all the enablers they need. Some of them might even be graduates of accelerator programs. Sessions aren’t mandatory.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

And there's not, well, there might be a leadership structure or guide, you know, it's really the individual. And he said it's so intimidating and disorienting to, you know, just all the stuff we learned at the university is turned upside down about leadership, about giving up control, about nurturing people. So to speak.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 27, 2022

Kimberly is a career and leadership development expert a speaker and podcast host whose mission is to empower women and people of color in the workplace. 8:02] It’s become pretty popular in leadership circles to talk about coaching as a skill of a leader, how would you distinguish between mentoring and coaching? [9:26]

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

And the potential rewards to joining a startup as a young person have always been there… not just financial if a startup is successful, but also the ability to have outsized influence and leadership roles relatively early in one’s career. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 10, 2009

As a microwave preamp, it had high gain, low noise and extremely wide bandwidth. A Traveling Wave Tube (TWT) could electronically tune through microwave frequencies at 1000 times faster than any other device, and it could operate in a frequency range measured in gigahertz.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 6, 2009

While the Klystrons of the 1950’s had too narrow and bandwidth and were too large for airborne use, they could be scaled up to generate megawatts of power and were used to power the U.S. Fred Terman and David Packard of HP joined Varian’s board.)

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