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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

We caught up with Fuel50 founder and CEO Anne Fulton to learn more about the startup. Anne Fulton: Fuel50 is a career pathing startup, part of the HR technology landscape. You can find a mentor, a coach, a project, or experience, to help you prepare for the role you are looking for. How did you start the company?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2016

In my own experience as a startup advisor and mentor, I find that entrepreneurs who can’t attract and maintain a highly motivated team rarely even get off the ground. Thus if you want to change the world with your new business, you need to follow the example of startups like Zappos , which hires according to cultural fit first.

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socalTECH

MAY 10, 2018

Behzad Kianmahd is the co-founder of Los Angeles coworking space Cross Campus , which is one of the major centers of startup activity in Silicon Beachand also involved as co-founder and lead investor in a brand new, venture capital fund, TAU Ventures (www.ideasimmersion.com/tau-ventures/). It was the Summer of 2016, if I'm not mistaken.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2016

It’s easy to declare yourself an entrepreneur, but it’s not so easy to convince investors, your team and customers that you are that special one to fund and follow. Business success begins in the mind of the startup founder and the team. Business success begins in the mind of the startup founder and the team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2016

As a startup advisor and investor, living in an area with several local universities, I’m continually surprised by how little many entrepreneurs know about the resources available from these institutions. Other project and research reports in their library are a rich source of new ideas, if you are still looking for a place to start.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Too many aspiring entrepreneurs I mentor can talk at length about their innovative ideas and passions, and ask lots of good questions, but never make much progress in building a real business. Once you learn how to make things happen in your own life, starting a business is easy. Follow up and finish something every day.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2016

The best startups give everyone business cards and encourage team members to talk about the business with anyone who should be interested. These might include anyone bringing in a new customer, representing the company in a good social cause, or participating in a video or social media campaign on their own time. Empower engagement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

for incorporation should provide you at least the key startup entity considerations you need to address in any business environment around the world. Isolate your new startup business from your personal accounts. The business entity has to be in place before a problem appears and is not recoverable by starting the business later.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Whether you are starting a paper route, or commercializing a complex technology, the same basic principles of success apply. Although just seventeen years old, Patel has some great insights that I can extrapolate for every aspiring entrepreneur to answer the most common question I get as an advisor and mentor – “Where do I start?”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2016

There is no shame in getting knocked down; it’s getting back up that matters. In a startup, pivots and problems will happen. Howard Schultz, who grew Starbucks to 13,000 stores by 2008, decided to step back in as CEO when the economy was killing his stores, and refocus everyone on the customer. Promote resilience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2016

Maybe it’s for this reason that as professionals advance in their career, they tend to start asking fewer questions and providing more answers. This question-based leadership approach starts with humility and a firm belief in the old adage, “There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers.” Leaders grow through relationships.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2016

In addition, if you are already a CFO, this position is a great springboard to the chief operating officer (COO) or even the CEO position in the startup, based on recent reports. In the case of GrubHub’s Adam DeWitt, he ended up with a salary exceeding that of the CEO. Every startup role requires managing to financial realities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Customers have come to expect disruptive change, so yet another social network is not the way to get traction. Mauri offers some practical, actionable advice for entrepreneurs who want to develop a leader’s mindset, on how to spread the right message to potential customers, as well as investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2016

In fact, I believe the majority of true entrepreneurs are not interested in this new role, and jump ship quickly by hiring an experienced CEO or merging with another company, to start their next entrepreneurial effort. With a startup, everything is an experiment. Growing the company means growing people through mentoring and training.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2016

As an advisor to startups and an angel investor, I encounter many Millennials as entrepreneurs who are leaders and great role-models for the rest of us in business. Unfortunately, many Millennials were raised by well-intentioned parents who never let them fail, and gave them awards for merely showing up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2016

In my years of business experience as an employee, a startup investor, and an executive, I have seen a host of reasons for these results, including: People work more productively on things they love to do. Constant stress, tension, and unhappiness causes people to withdraw and reject new customer ideas or solutions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2016

Maintaining that balance between doing good and doing business is a key to success that investors and customers watch carefully. They have to ability and patience, as well, to communicate and awaken customers to a need never felt before. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 05/11/2016.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2016

Based on my years of experience in both startups and large companies, trusted relationships are more the key to success than a great business model, how smart you are, or how much money you have. Don’t wait for the right people in business to find you – developers, investors, partners, or key customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Whether it be in a startup or a large enterprise, everyone can name those few individuals who stand out as unstoppable, and always seem to be in the forefront of results. One of the best antidotes to procrastination is setting up a personal reward system for results, not tasks. Marty Zwilling First published on Forbes on 08/27/2016.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Every entrepreneur has to be a decision-maker, even with information overload, emotional employees, angry customers and competitors hovering from every direction. Small course corrections made quickly and follow-up communication can forestall major new issues and make your decision the right one the first time.

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