Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2015

A successful business has to satisfy customers with a strong team, by helping them solve problems, save money, or experience more pleasure. He concludes that there are five leadership elements that include him, but are not always about him, that lead to success. Share the mantle of leadership. Build your people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

A successful business has to satisfy customers with a strong team, by helping them solve problems, save money, or experience more pleasure. He concludes that there are five leadership elements that include him, but are not always about him, that lead to success. Share the mantle of leadership. Build your people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2013

Those at the other extreme don’t look up from the grindstone long enough to notice whether all their work is producing sweat equity or just sweat. There is nothing more inspiring than seeing the results of your mentoring and leadership. Truly satisfied customers are a joy to every business person.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

A successful business has to satisfy customers with a strong team, by helping them solve problems, save money, or experience more pleasure. He concludes that there are five leadership elements that include him, but are not always about him, that lead to success. Share the mantle of leadership. Build your people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2016

That’s why all those so-called million dollar ideas I hear about as an investor don’t get me excited, and entrepreneurs find that working twenty hours a day often generates nothing more than sweat, instead of the desired sweat equity. Here are five key ones to celebrate: Enjoy the feedback from every satisfied customer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2012

Those at the other extreme don’t look up from the grindstone long enough to notice whether all their work is producing sweat equity or just sweat. There is nothing more inspiring than seeing the results of your mentoring and leadership. Truly satisfied customers are a joy to every business person.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

The Whole Enchilada For those of you interested in more than The Skinny, keep reading… Countless conversations have been had with key users, customers, advisors, mentors, family and friends. and * on a bootstrapped budget* : We first engaged in customer surveys and validated a huge problem?—?several What did our customers think?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2015

That’s why all those so-called million dollar ideas I hear about as an investor don’t get me excited, and entrepreneurs find that working twenty hours a day often generates nothing more than sweat, instead of the desired sweat equity. Here are five key ones to celebrate: Enjoy the feedback from every satisfied customer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Those at the other extreme don’t look up from the grindstone long enough to notice whether all their work is producing sweat equity or just sweat. There is nothing more inspiring than seeing the results of your mentoring and leadership. Truly satisfied customers are a joy to every business person.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2015

The average amount per startup was $23,000, usually in the form of a convertible loan, rather than an equity investment. Show them that you have done your homework with industry experts and potential customers, and convince them you are not asking for charity or a donation. Build a prototype first on your own time and money.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Perhaps they have previous leadership experience at these companies or are still there today. This is useful for a number of reasons, the most obvious of which is to help you navigate the right channels in your vertical and open doors to potential customers. In other cases, they may come from your channel partners or elsewhere.

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Up and Running

JUNE 26, 2017

So several months and a lot of mistakes later, we pivoted to helping small businesses get and keep more customers. There are plenty of reasons why new businesses fail—poor leadership, not enough money, and so on. Mark Cuban has famously said, “Sweat equity is the best startup capital.” Who do you know that can help you?

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The negativity either impacted investment funding (venture capital fell off a cliff in 2009) or the customers they were targeted as was the case for Untitled Partners who were building a platform for fractional art ownership. surrendered market leadership and thought leadership. #12 12 – Do not use your connections.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

As importantly, Dennis embodies the kind of leadership that I described in Notes on Leadership. Years and years of research and sweat equity went into cracking the code, and the results are magical. He’s the kind of leader that great technical minds will be excited to follow: visionary, righteous, and competent.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 9, 2019

As you acquire customers and your customer base grows, once you start to make a profit it’s only natural to start thinking about the next step forward. During the early days, these are your key contributors and they must be willing to put as much sweat equity into the organization as you are. You Trust Your Team.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Custom Programming. It’s simply an untenable situation to expect the technical co-founder to assume the full burden of risk through sweat equity. Businesses. Business Articles. Accounting. Copywriting Tips. General Business. Internet Security. Startup Advice. Social Media. Business Services. Web Design. Business Tools.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

surrendered market leadership and thought leadership. Don’t exacerbate the issue by needing to figure out how to deal with a large equity deadweight on your hands (investors won’t like that the #2 stakeholder is absent, even estranged, from your company). Not close enough to the customer. Company : RiotVine.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 20, 2010

Is the customer intent contained in the keywords telling you how to change / improve the page? But if you are willing to put in a little bit of sweat equity then you'll stand miles apart from your SEO competitors. This results in not speaking the same language (say keywords) as their customers. Well don't give up.

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