Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Studies show that a positive team culture in an organization can result in 26 percent fewer mistakes, 22 percent higher productivity, 41 percent lower absenteeism, and 30 percent stronger customer satisfaction. You can’t find the time for coaching and mentoring. Meetings with your team seem to be non-productive.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

If you do decide that you want to become a “manager”, there are a few things that can help you grow in to this role: Coach: Today, most CEOs of Silicon Valley start-ups use coaches to develop their CEO skills. The Information recently ran an article on some of the most popular coaches in SV.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Positive people management elements include good communication skills, building strong teams, finding time for coaching, strong people relationships, and facilitating growth and succession. Research has confirmed that culture is a primary driver for financial performance, customer experience, and team productivity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Too many relationships never advance beyond this stage, resulting in poor communication, no cooperation, low trust, and low shared productivity. This is a productive working relationship where one party, more knowledgeable and/or experienced, takes an active role in fostering the advance of the other. Workship - Mentor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2023

These should come as no surprise to you, since they haven’t changed in many decades, and I expect will serve you well in the current turbulent times we all face: Spend time nurturing productive work relationships. In my experience, relationships are still the key to career opportunities, new clients, and collaborative results.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

You need to make sure that everyone on the team, from the clerical assistant to the chief financial officer, knows your vision and product, and doesn’t hesitate to actively engage and be an effective proponent with anyone who might be of value to the business. In fact, having one marketing guru on the team alone won’t get you very far.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 29, 2019

I have found it to be more productive and effective to lead with the model that no meetings will take an hour, and may be done in as little as five minutes. Team members need your critique of their work to learn, but attacking the person is never productive. Provide immediate direct and constructive feedback. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2022

Yet I find, as a mentor and outside consultant, that many of you focus only on working conditions and compensation as the key factors determining team engagement , health, and productivity. Every person requires some level of positive human interaction with co-workers and others to be satisfied and productive.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Alow users to generate, refine, and stitch different content types in one workspace Enabling in-platform refinement – AI products can help users identify what can be improved, and then automatically make these changes. Iterating with intelligent editors – products that enable users to take an existing output and refine it (ex.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Sure, we built SaaS products before the term even existed but at 31 it was hard to delineate reality from what all of the monied people around us were telling us what we were worth. In those years I learned to properly build product, price products, sell products and serve customers. Until we weren’t.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2022

A design mindset is not product-focused - it’s solution focused and action oriented towards creating better customer experiences and value. Coach others, rather than competing with others. In businesses, this requires a new internal culture and leadership. They become the model for their followers.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Business coaches are instrumental people in the start and growth of one’s business. Many entrepreneurs attribute their success to the mere factor that they had a business coach guide them through the process. Many entrepreneurs attribute their success to the mere factor that they had a business coach guide them through the process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2022

They skimp on the design of their website, procrastinate on the rollout to make sure the product is perfect, and get so excited about technology features that they forget about creating value for customers. I like the guidance from marketing coach David Newman’s classic book “ Do It! Don’t waste your time following up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2023

I believe that a fully engaged team is the key to both productivity and agility in the face of change. You must give them a strong sense of self-efficacy by championing autonomy, encouraging them to think big, and coaching them on areas to improve. Show humility by being honest about mistakes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

With business teams now getting back together in the workplace after primarily working remotely during the pandemic , it’s an ideal time to implement change and make sure your team is feeling a renewed sense of satisfaction, high engagement, and maximum productivity. Let that be part of their job satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Train and coach continuously. It’s a core process that must be up and effective when you deliver your first product or service. The process must be employee friendly, as well as customer friendly, and have feedback mechanisms to correct poor results. If service employees are not happy, the process isn’t working yet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2019

The result is lost productivity and a poorly engaged work force. Your people will expect more coaches than bosses. They demand to be valued as individuals, and coached to understand and build their strengths, rather than treated as soldiers and directed to march into battle.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 17, 2020

by Lisa Tener , award-winning book-writing and publishing coach, published author. Amanda Madorno, a leadership development coach whofocuses on building emotional intelligence (EQ) skills, suggests this: “Don’t get distracted by yourself. How do you meet the needs of your team members and keep them inspired and productive?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2022

I too often see people who are quick to make excuses, blame failures on peers or customers, or see management as the reason for their lack of productivity. Be available for mentoring and coaching to others. Lack of accountability can permeate an entire organization. In any business, accountability ideally starts at the top.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Too many relationships never advance beyond this stage, resulting in poor communication, no cooperation, low trust, and low shared productivity. This is a productive working relationship where one party, more knowledgeable and/or experienced, takes an active role in fostering the advance of the other. Workship - Mentor.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Having a good coach can make a difference, just like how a sports team need to have one to win a match. What Is Executive Coaching? Executive coaching or “business coaching” is a one-on-one coaching session between a trained coach and a client with the goal of achieving great leadership and management performance.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Thanks to the Internet, businesses have successfully learned to sell products and services online. Beauty Products. You can sell specific beauty products, too. Consider specializing in eco-friendly products, for example, which are becoming popular. Online Coaching Services. Home Decorations.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 20, 2023

. #1- Plan right and strategize Photo Credit: Brian David Crane One piece of advice I used to hear a lot was, “If you build it, they will come” The belief behind that statement was that if you can offer a good service or build a good product with all its bells and whistles, people will buy it. But now it is totally different.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

I worked with engineering to try to find product/market fit ( big endian or little endian ?) And to top it off he got me a coach to help me understand what taking it to the next level meant. But I never shared any of how I felt with my coach. And herein lies the tale…. Why does anything have to change ?” I was devastated.

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Steve Blank

MAY 19, 2021

The key to understanding value propositions is in building interviews that are based on a set of hypotheses (about the problem, the stakeholder and potential solutions to be explored) and data to be captured while using minimum viable products (just enough “product” to increase the efficacy of a conversation and increase the speed of learning).

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

by Saeju Jeong, CEO and Co-founder of Noom Coach. For example, Artem is an expert in software engineering, product development and all things tech. Saeju Jeong is the CEO and Co-founder of the world’s leading weight loss program, Noom Coach. I should know – I’ve done it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2021

Train and coach continuously. It’s a core process that must be up and effective when you deliver your first product or service. The process must be employee friendly, as well as customer friendly, and have feedback mechanisms to correct poor results. If service employees are not happy, the process isn’t working yet.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2021

For those of you who don’t know: Conversation Intelligence software integrates with your customer engagement platform to record, transcribe, and analyze sales calls, giving businesses access to crucial deal information, CRM data entry automation, faster sales reps review, and sales coaching. Customer demands . Customer pain points.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 10, 2020

It can be sponsored posts, ad space, digital products, coaching, etc. It is kind of similar to affiliate marketing, but you can join with multiple shops or even sell your own products. Create a Digital Product or Course. Creating a digital product or course is similar to publishing eBooks. Skype Coaching.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Priorities and strategies change as a company grows – starting with finding product-market fit after a seed round to figuring out distribution between Series A and Series B. While it is now pretty common for young founders to work with coaches, leadership development has typically been limited to executives. Invest in yourself.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

If you run a coaching business, for instance, you can look into coaching business best practices and adapt them according to your business model. In addition, it’s a good idea to streamline processes, introduce paid products, and use online coaching platforms to make your business more efficient.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 22, 2020

5 Trends That Impact Consultants and Coaches in 2021 written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. In addition to working with thousands of small business owners each year, I also work very closely with coaches, consultants, and small marketing agency owners. 1) Coaching and consulting practices explode.

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Eric Friedman

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

One of the most interesting results was the outpouring of support and questions we received around how we built the product, why we built the exercise, and how much did it all cost. I hope it brings some much needed visibility into the world of no-code projects and transparency into building a minimum viable product and getting it launched.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 13, 2020

It doesn’t matter what industry, what product, what revenue model, what stage of development. Work with a coach: Whether it’s a sales advisor, a communications/public speaking expert or a true CEO coach depends a lot on what you think is holding you back from being effective. Photo by Jan Koetsier on Pexels.com.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2019

As a leadership coach, I often witness well-developed plans collapse shortly after they’re born. However, there’s a clear difference between productive boldness and reckless boldness, and it comes down to being deliberate in your choices. Boldness: The Good Versus the Bad. That’s a bold move. Wielding boldness is an everyday practice.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Business coaches are instrumental people in the start and growth of one’s business. Many entrepreneurs attribute their success to the mere factor that they had a business coach guide them through the process. Here’s what entrepreneurs had to say about the role a coach plays in their business. #1- 1- Four ways.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 12, 2022

Become a financial coach, wellness coach, career or business coach, or even a relationship coach if you'd like to. It is possible to hold virtual classes using systems such as Google Meet, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams. If you have a YouTube channel, you can also make money by making educational films about your industry.

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