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5 Keys To A Viable Spending Rate And Cash Management

Startup Professionals Musings

Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Hire a professional marketing and public relations agency once you have a good revenue stream but you don’t need them to start a free blog, establish Facebook and Twitter accounts with initial content and complete the basics of search engine optimization.

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5 Ways A Startup Benefits From Dual Partner Strengths

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Tends to hire helpers and not develop talent. Winters, both with a wealth of experience in this domain.

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8 Tactics To Make Service Your Competitive Advantage

Startup Professionals Musings

You have to start with hiring only people who are willing and able to make serious customer service happen. Then make sure that everyone on the team does the same, and are motivated to improve the match with your startup. Their eight initiatives should be required reading for every entrepreneur: Find and retain quality people.

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10 Questions To Lead You To Timely Successful Change

Startup Professionals Musings

Make sure they match before you commit. Define hard (data) and soft (anecdotal) metrics on the change, as well as on the quality of your leadership. That means you have to start with assessing the current state against the same metrics, before you can assess progress or change. How do I measure success? How do I reduce risk?

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5 Reasons Two Founders As A Team Are Better Than One

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Tends to hire helpers and not develop talent. Winters, both with a wealth of experience in this domain.

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Use Milestones and Metrics to Turn Planning into Business GPS

Up and Running

Taking steering one step further, let’s suggest that good planning, with milestones and metrics, is something like steering with the aid of a GPS. Metrics are like dials on the dashboard, indicators of how you’re doing, tracking your progress toward goals. Metrics give you tracking and accountability.

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8 Initiatives To Heighten Your Customer’s Experience

Startup Professionals Musings

You have to start with hiring only people who are willing and able to make serious customer service happen. Then make sure that everyone on the team does the same, and are motivated to improve the match with your startup. Their eight initiatives should be required reading for every entrepreneur: Find and retain quality people.