Berkonomics

MAY 16, 2019

There must be at least several companies out there right now positioning to compete with you. And although many positioning efforts cross the lines between these, great companies play to the strength of just one. Innovation certainly defines a number of companies catering to early adopters and the mass audiences that follow.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2023

In my experience, finding real innovation in existing company environments is even tougher. Creating intellectual property, including patents, is the kay to long-term value and a sustainable competitive advantage. Training and coaching. Ongoing coaching from the top is essential to maintain the attitude and spirit.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 29, 2019

The company raised $46 million last year—its first year operating—with the vision that owning the infrastructure for competitions and expanding it to encompass other social elements of gaming can make it the largest gaming company in the world. And I was on the founding team of a car rental company called Executive Rental Car.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2021

By definition, all of you entrepreneurs are leaders, by taking the initiative to start a new company. Johnson accepted full company accountability on Twitter for a racial profiling incident at a Starbucks in Philadelphia. His Virgin Group today consists of over 400 companies. Create innovative change from existing resources.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 29, 2019

The company lowers its rates for popular gamers or gamers who are willing to spend more time on the platform either selling their services or actually coaching esports players. Wang says that that pros on the platform are making anywhere from $750 to $2500 per month and that there are currently 250 coaches on the platform.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2020

In my experience, finding real innovation in existing company environments is even tougher. Creating intellectual property, including patents, is the kay to long-term value and a sustainable competitive advantage. Training and coaching. Ongoing coaching from the top is essential to maintain the attitude and spirit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2021

In these days of rapid change, the pandemic, and worldwide competition, you need to make sure your entire team is customer-focused, innovative, and always looking around the corner for the next big thing. Recent articles report that companies where everyone is focused on the big picture can increase their returns by up to 400 percent.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

My experience with early valuations by founders for friends… I’ve arrived at a significant number of companies that were looking for additional growth capital after a “friends and family” round and had to “clean up” the cap table more than a few times over the years. Taking this kind of money has several pitfalls you should be aware of.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Most of us are driven by the competitive spirit, the desire or need to win. And many of these actions are repetitive to a fault, contributing to boredom and ultimately to restlessness and desire for something new, in or out of the company. Be a good coach and be creative. Being driven to achieve results. There is a solution.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

Having great company culture is no longer just an option. In fact, fantastic company culture is almost expected along with other traditional benefits. It has established what the company culture is, and fitting into that culture is the most important thing managers look for when hiring. What does that culture look like?

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

Having great company culture is no longer just an option. In fact, fantastic company culture is almost expected along with other traditional benefits. It has established what the company culture is, and fitting into that culture is the most important thing managers look for when hiring. What does that culture look like?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2023

Every business organization, large or small, has a variety of individual and team member types that factor into your ability to innovate and change the business to meet evolving customer needs and competition. He brings over 25 years of experience with Silicon Valley leadership companies in highlighting winners and losers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2021

It must be understandable, written down, and verifiable, with regular measurements and metrics to make it real, benchmarked against the competition. Train and coach continuously. Train and coach continuously. Companies with great service routinely spend 3% to 5% of salaries training team members – experienced as well as new.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2023

These authors bring a wealth of knowledge from their decades of practicing executive coaching and psychology, as well as business employment law, with real companies both before and during the transition. Coaching – Practice active listening and feedback. Change – make “journey of change” apply to all.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2022

In addition, today’s customers judge a company by perceived people relationships through social media, phone conversations, and sales experiences. Leaders need to share their values and goals, as well as challenges, to get effective assistance and buy-in from team members delivering the company image.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Unlike the mentor, who is a coach and teacher, the advocate inspires you to be the best that you can be. The trailblazer is not overly competitive, but always is a few steps ahead and enjoys setting an example that you are inspired by, or motivated to follow. Workship - Trailblazer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2023

I realized a while back that creating a new company for the first time is a lot like whipping up a great dinner entree for the first time – you need a recipe, even though it may look simple. All the investment money in the world won’t make your company succeed, if you have the wrong team. In all cases, don’t skip the basic training.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2023

Even if you were an “A-Player” in your previous organization (top 10-percent performer, high integrity, exceeds on commitments), you had peers and executives around you to provide coaching and keep you centered. In this highly competitive world, no growth means falling behind, as a business or in your career.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Most of us are driven by the competitive spirit, the desire or need to win. And many of these actions are repetitive to a fault, contributing to boredom and ultimately to restlessness and desire for something new, in or out of the company. Be a good coach, and be creative. There is a solution. Everyone loves a good game.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2022

I see that model changing today to one of team collaboration and decision making, per companies such as Amazon, Google, and Zoom. Modern companies like Amazon credit much of their growth and success to rewarding of change innovations, including failures. Discourage internal team competition and silos.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 11, 2012

The following guest post is from Dan Monarko, Online Marketing Manager at The Resumator , a SaaS applicant tracking system and hiring platform trusted by many of the fastest-growing companies in the world, including: Pinterest, Tumblr, Hootsuite, Klout, Posterous, Bitly, Atari and Mashable. Commitment . It’s the root of real achievement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2020

Beat the competition and discover yourself. Competition drives innovation, and innovation drives competition. In fact, most startup founders work for no salary during the first year or two of company operation. Many love working from their home or garage, in casual clothes, serenaded their by favorite music.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2019

In the popular press, it’s easy to find articles that will convince you that companies with a good culture, such as Google, do it by lavishing perks and benefits , including some combination of free meals, trips and parties, financial bonuses, gyms, and a dog-friendly environment. What the team feels is more important than what they know.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2021

Obviously, both are required for a company to stay healthy and growing. People-centric leaders realize that the right motivated and accountable people are their real competitive advantage. In my experience, providing people leadership is the tougher challenge, but the more critical one. Even process changes require people first.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Even if you were an “A-Player” in your previous organization (top 10-percent performer, high integrity, exceeds on commitments), you had peers and executives around you to provide coaching and keep you centered. In this highly competitive world, no growth means falling behind, as a business or in your career.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

I started my first company in 1999 and was admittedly swept up in all of this: Magazine covers, fancy conferences, artificial valuations and easy money. Between 2006–2008 I sold both companies that I had started and became a VC. It was a way to make it hard for your competition to compete.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2022

They apparently ignored all conventional wisdom and advisors, and struck a deal which crashed both companies, now a case study in many business schools. A good fight in business is called healthy competition. Schedule an on-going reality check with trusted advisors to know the difference. Why does a good fight sometimes go bad?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2022

found in polling more than 700 professionals at companies nationwide, that 58 percent had participated in an office romance, and almost three-quarters of those who’ve had relationships said they’d be willing to engage in another one. in sociology, and is a coach and speaker on work issues and friendship. by Jan Yager, who has a Ph.D.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2022

Your role is to provide this enablement, through listening to their needs, and providing personal coaching and mentoring as required. Foster collaboration rather than competition. This fosters a positive team culture, and communicates company values that are important for everyone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Unlike the mentor, who is a coach and teacher, the advocate inspires you to be the best that you can be. The trailblazer is not overly competitive, but always is a few steps ahead and enjoys setting an example that you are inspired by, or motivated to follow. Workship - Trailblazer.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

It’s stating the obvious to say that great teams matter and that cultivating them will drive higher company performance vs. a group of individual contributors. My observation is that many companies become Game of Thrones with warring factions and competing interests. The best leaders I work with tend to obsess about teams.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

I realized a while back that creating a new company for the first time is a lot like whipping up a great dinner entrée for the first time – you need a recipe, even though it may look simple. All the investment money in the world won’t make your company succeed, if you have the wrong team. In all cases, don’t skip the basic training.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

If there are burnout or communication problems on a founding team those problems can hijack a company's progress. Techstars has continued to expand its global footprint with 48 accelerator programs around the world and the first company from our portfolio (Sendgrid) to IPO in late 2017 and then be acquired by Twilio in 2018.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2018

In my experience, finding real innovation in existing company environments is even tougher. Creating intellectual property, including patents, is the kay to long-term value and a sustainable competitive advantage. Training and coaching. Ongoing coaching from the top is essential to maintain the attitude and spirit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2021

Perhaps you need to do more to be a role model for accountability , and provide more coaching on exactly what it means. Johnson , was quick to accept accountability via a company apology on Twitter for a racial profiling incident at a Starbucks in Philadelphia, even though he could have claimed that a fired employee was at fault.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

The barriers to entry when it comes to launching a company require less tension and a lot less capital. In 2006, a passion to help startups grew into Tech Cocktail , a company whose mission was to showcased burgeoning companies in bars around the country. BlackTech Week (Miami, FL).

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2015

In my experience, finding real innovation in existing company environments is even tougher. Creating intellectual property, including patents, is the key to long-term value and a sustainable competitive advantage. Training and coaching. Accountability. Idea management. Innovation is not a one-time thing. Observe and measure.

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