Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2014

Also dont confuse a business advisor with a business coach. An advisors aim is to teach you what to do and how, in specific situations, unlike a coach who helps you develop your generic skills for deciding what to do and how. The advisor helps the entrepreneur fill an experience gap, and a coach helps fill a skill gap.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2019

You too can become an influencer through social media, videos and blogs, and people will follow you on what to buy, what causes to support, and who to vote for. Take an active role in a higher cause or social reform. Consider Jeff Bezos at the top of Amazon, or Howard Schultz at the top of Starbucks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2015

In my view, it’s time to eliminate the term consultant , as well as focus on activities and approaches that appeal more to the growing volume of small businesses today: Join the movement to contract roles. There are expert blogs and curation sites, like this one, covering every aspect of business and leadership.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

So what are Rob’s secret hacks that he didn’t spill in his blog post? . Key point – if your emails are as long as my blog posts you’re forked. He did it yesterday, “Mark, I’m going to write a blog post following on from your VC’s aren’t dumb. That in itself is quite a challenge.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

I think that mindset is useful to remind entrepreneurs that it is a shared journey and capital (whether active or passive) is a part of your success and your ability to access it when you need to and for the amounts you need is a very critical differentiator between successful companies and unsuccessful one. How to build a great forecast.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I can be found on LinkedIn , have a blog Holocognics and my firm’s website is www.SolutionsLLP.com. Sometimes we draft business plans and coach the entrepreneurs on their pitch, and sometimes we even help develop a business model. It provides a more active opportunity for people to get to know each other, and in more detail.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 8, 2012

She was the first woman to actively play in a regular season professional hockey game in the United States at a position other than goalie. Olympic athletes are very familiar with the high standards set by coaches and judges. What initially seemed like an odd combination piqued my interest. What if they attended a community college?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

ThereNow has build a platform (physical camera + software platform) to help remote coaches help improve teachers. The classroom activities are recorded and the video is appended with comments from a remote coach. It’s always great to meet somebody in person that you’ve interacted with on blogs and on Twitter.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

According to FLAG Capital there are 100 active VCs (as defined by making at least $1 million in VC per quarter for 4 consecutive quarters). So for argument’s sake let’s triple the number of active VCs and call it 300. If you read Ken Auletta’s piece it makes it clear there was active VCs involvement in the early days.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2011

That’s the reason every good parent should be coaching their child from birth to avoid posting all the naughty things on social networks that can come back to haunt them later. " The second search turned up a personal blog (a good one, actually). The first search turned up a MySpace page.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

As a partnership we’re all pretty young (relatively) and active in investments and we most mostly did this job out of our love for working with entrepreneurs at startups. And there is often competition over marketing activities, fund raising ownership and the like. Partner Leverage. Internal Operations.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

He blogs at startup-marketing.com. In addition, he currently consults extensively with startup companies on matters related to strategy, financing, operations, and executive coaching. He also helped accelerate growth at Eventbrite, Socialcast, Webs, World Golf Tour, WordPress.com and Songkick in hands-on marketing advisory roles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2010

That’s the reason every good parent should be coaching their child from birth to avoid posting all the naughty things on social networks that can come back to haunt them later. The second search turned up a personal blog (a good one, actually). The first search turned up a MySpace page.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Took some time to crunch the numbers and evaluate our findings before re-circling back in 2009 and beginning what started as a blog. A blog with our reviews of the scene, locations, etc. We started seeing a demand for what we were doing and from there began throwing singles parties, doing match making, and date coaching.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 24, 2012

We handle all the logistics and details, provide you with an entire schedule of customized activities, and make sure that your experience off-the-grid is everything you are looking for. Do you do corporate retreats, coaching or even? In addition, we do in-house team, management and employee consulting/coaching.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2013

Last year I wrote a blog post on entrepreneurs with a chip on their shoulders. My friend Seth Levine covered this well in his blog post on “ Handling Rejection ” which you should also read. I could link to a bunch of blog posts that come across this way but prefer not to single anybody out. Here’s the deal.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I like to boil down the overwhelming majority of what we do on the web to just three primary activities, which I call the three C’s: Content, Commerce & Communications. I’ve blogged about this before and provide a lot more details in these posts: 1. The Foundations of the Seattle startup community.

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