Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2020

You can’t get their credibility and trust if they don’t know you exist, or your message is lost because it sounds like all the rest. A related challenge in this age of information overload is simply to get people’s attention. The principles outlined here will highlight your intention in a very real way, and help you stand out above the crowd.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 20, 2022

I almost spit out the rest of my coffee. As we were finishing my coffee Anthony said, “I’m going to let a few of the execs know I’m not out for turf because I only intend to be here for a few years.” I asked how many years the division C-level staff has been at the company. Some of them for decades” he replied.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Known as ‘eating the frog,’ this strategy hinges on the idea that completing your most unnerving task first provides a sense of accomplishment and sets a positive tone for the rest of the day.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2020

Liquidate the assets, cash out investors, and keep the rest. If you can convince investors that your startup will generate a solid revenue stream, and the market won’t go away any time soon, they may see an opportunity for an ever larger return.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2022

Founders have to communicate their ideas and products to investors, business partners, and the rest of the team. Fortunately these skills can be learned, and the barriers to communication can be overcome one by one. Then, hopefully, come customers, distribution channels, and going public or merging with an attractive buy-out candidate.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2020

Once you’ve hired the designer you can trust, you can rest knowing that the creation of your dream website will run smoothly and successfully. If you don’t know how and where to start, keep the tips mentioned above, and you’ll become more satisfied and confident in making the best choice.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2021

Investing can be satisfying, if not lucrative, for the rest of us, for keeping up with technology, as a give-back to entrepreneurs, and building a legacy. If you subscribe to truths one to five, startup investing can be lucrative.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2022

Be the model for everyone around you by finding your purpose and communicating it to the rest of us. Having a purpose is more lasting over time, inspires better service, reinforces values, and drives performance. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 6/23/2022.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

But rest assured valuations get reset. Even then private market investors can paper over valuation changes by investing at the same price but with more structure so it’s hard to understand the “headline valuation.” First in late-stage tech companies and then it will filter back to Growth and then A and ultimately Seed Rounds.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

To the Entrepreneur, the present-day world is modeled after a vision of a better way, one that will stand out with customers from all the rest in the past, and give the joy and satisfaction of success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2022

You probably already understand this dimension, which includes how well your team members observe healthy living habits, including nutrition, exercise, and rest, both at work and outside. I will summarize these here, with my insights, for your review and implementation: Physical health. Emotional stability.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

All the rest of us might be the real beneficiaries, with a lot more to learn. Yet success may not be any real indicator of help received, since once could argue that the really great entrepreneurs didn’t need any help from the incubator, and might have been even more successful without it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2022

The real question is whether problem solving is a skill you have to be born with, or is there any hope for the rest of us to become successful entrepreneurs. They have an uncanny ability to find elegant, easy, and fast solutions to pain points in the marketplace, as well as their own challenges.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

All the rest are bad risks, including problems you didn’t anticipate, competitors you didn’t know about, and customer expectations that you can’t meet. Customers like leaders, not followers. The risks you want to take are the ones that you planned for in your resources, set up metrics to measure, and manage on an ongoing basis.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2024

Encrypting Sensitive Data Encryption is a crucial tool to protect data, both at rest and in transit. Data-at-Rest Encryption: Encrypt sensitive data stored on servers, databases, and other storage devices.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Use the tips outlined above during the first three months to get in the game, and count on much more time and money if you intend to stand above the rest. In summary, a startup with no website, or a website with no credibility will kill your business. Make your website not only credible and unique, but incredible! Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2020

The leadership challenge here is to unlock their motivation to apply themselves to their work, or remove them from your startup before they have drained the drive and energy from the rest of the team. Effective team leadership, or leadership inside the box, is really only half the challenge that every entrepreneur faces.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

For the rest of us, we need a business plan, as well as a product plan. You may have heard that venture capitalists in Silicon Valley no longer read business plans. What you don’t realize is these famous investors only deal with entrepreneurs who sold their last company for a $100M dollars or more.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 9, 2024

However, trucks traveling these long distances often face security challenges, especially when left unattended during rest stops. According to Big Rig Parking, these semi-truck parking spaces provide a controlled environment for drivers to rest and ensure vehicle safety. FAQs What is a truck parking area called?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

I’m certain he had no idea of the personal fortune that could accrue, but was driven by a need to prove through applications the value to the rest of us. I was lucky enough to know Bill Gates in the early days of personal computers, when most people thought computers had no place outside of business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2020

The rest does not often improve decision quality. As a first step toward faster decisions and agility, practice applying the 80/20 Principle to your thinking. In most situations, you can gather 80 percent of the relevant information in the first 20 percent of the time available. Spend more time on long-term strategy than daily crises.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2021

I’ve always wondered if some people are just that much smarter, or what some do that the rest of us can emulate, in order that we too get the best results without working so hard. In my current role as a consultant to entrepreneurs and small business owners, I’ve accumulated my own list of insights on how some people get more done.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2020

Of course this means taking some smart risks, not resting on your laurels, and continuously updating your business plan and strategy. The key here is to plan ahead, nurture a relationship with your favorite venture capitalists, and leverage the growth and assets you already have with other lending and funding organizations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

All the rest are bad risks, including problems you didn’t anticipate, competitors you didn’t know about, and customer expectations that you can’t meet. Customers like leaders, not followers. The risks you want to take are the ones that you planned for in your resources, set up metrics to measure, and manage on an ongoing basis.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 3, 2024

Remember, every ‘yes’ to a work task is potentially a ‘no’ to your family, hobbies, rest, or health. Just as compounding interest grows wealth, compounding rest grows resilience and innovation. Think of downtime as an investment in your most critical asset — yourself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The rest can come from early hires (with stock options to assure commitment), equity investors, or even strategic partners. Hard work and attention to detail are the key. I’m not suggesting that you need all six of these as cofounders initially, but I always recommend a minimum of two founders with different perspectives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The rest can come from early hires (with stock options to assure commitment), equity investors, or even strategic partners. Hard work and attention to detail are the key. I’m not suggesting that you need all six of these as cofounders initially, but I always recommend a minimum of two founders with different perspectives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

For the rest of you entrepreneurs, consider the value of a business plan when it is not required. On the other hand, don’t forget angel investors, who fund a large number of startups, to the tune of $25 billion last year, who start their search primarily from platforms like the ones mentioned above. Clemson University professor William B.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Weak or generic copy is going to fade into obscurity with the rest of the boring ads no one ever clicks on. Be laser-focused. High-Quality Ad Copy Advertising copy and language make the first impression on potential customers. Strong call-to-actions (CTAs) can be game changers when attracting and captivating your audience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 29, 2021

I’m often surprised when you as an aspiring entrepreneur, looking for investors, tell me your solution is so innovative that you don’t have to worry about differentiating it from competitors, and customers will flock to it without a real marketing campaign.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2019

While founders had more stock than the other employees, they had the same type of stock options as the rest of the employees, and they only made money when everyone else did (though a lot more of it.) While founders in the 20 th century had more stock than the rest of their employees, they had the same type of stock options.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2023

The leadership challenge here is to unlock their motivation to apply themselves to their work, or remove them from your startup before they have drained the drive and energy from the rest of the team. Effective team leadership, or leadership inside the box, is really only half the challenge that every entrepreneur faces.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Liquidate the assets, cash out investors, and keep the rest. If you can convince investors that your startup will generate a solid revenue stream, and the market won’t go away any time soon, they may see an opportunity for an ever larger return.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2022

This is a key precept of design thinking, and leaders in this arena must be the models for the rest of their team. Curious confrontation is simply facing differing ideas with the desire to investigate and learn.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Thanks to his custom blurb, instead of closing his browser and feeling inadequate for the rest of the day, Mark completes his bio and becomes a happy customer. My tenure at Teach For America cemented my commitment to education, motivating me to devote myself to navigating young minds through the captivating landscape of mathematics.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 7, 2020

It’s time to shine a light on these companies to take a look at what they are doing better than the rest and what they have seen in this market. There are four companies that have taken the market by storm and become popular among the masses. Ties are one of them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

For the rest of us, here is my prioritized list of key strategies that I believe every business leader can benefit from as a starting point in making the current inflation economy less of a negative impact on their business, or maybe even a pleasantly surprising positive: Solicit follow-on revenue from existing customers.

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