Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2023

Yet if you already have some early adopters, that's a good indication that real marketing and education will likely bring your product or service mass acceptance. Acquiring business skills is not rocket science; they can be learned on the job, as well as supplemented by coaching from an experienced team and advisors.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

As Guy Kawasaki pointed out in our recent conversation , “…it is cheaper than ever to start a company. If there was ever a time to start a company, this is it.”. Determining the perfect moment to enter the startup market, whether by creating a company or joining an ongoing venture, is akin to timing the financial markets. “You

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

According to one study a decade ago, only 45% of founders plan to exit after stage one, and my guess is that less than half the remainder survive the next stage in their own company. Leaders are needed to coach each salesperson, keep the team on message, and spur new growth and goals. Separate marketing from sales for further leverage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Of course, the first requirement is to get the education and tools you need to feel confident that you are ready, and have the mindset to be a leader in every role. Leadership elements include clear communication to all, providing support and coaching where required, and driving activities based on the big picture.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

We have significant VC commitments (listed below) – every entering company will get $50,000 in funding, mentorship from top VCs and successful entrepreneurs plus free office space. For any company interested in applying please visit the website. To show these companies that they can remain in LA. For the past 2.5

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Helped merge company with Seedling – on track to do $20 million combined revenue in 2015 – will now become Chairman). Her network from her educational institutions alone has friends in all of the top tech, media & banking institutions. She is a coach and mentor to team members.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2020

Yet if you already have some early adopters, that's a good indication that real marketing and education will likely bring your product or service mass acceptance. Acquiring business skills is not rocket science; they can be learned on the job, as well as supplemented by coaching from an experienced team and advisors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2021

Once you have learned, your top- priority task must be to educate others around you. Sir Richard Branson , who controls over 400 active companies, never appears to be even working. Sir Richard Branson , who controls over 400 active companies, never appears to be even working. Automate: do it once to never do it again.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 18, 2010

We will be selecting 10 startup companies to participate. Encourage the most successful LA tech entrepreneurs who had previously started companies to get involved as mentors, instructors or just informal advisors. Help these companies get funded and let them know that if they stayed in LA there was an ecosystem to support them.

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Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

What you might not realize is that the adorable droid was the brain child of Sphero, a robotics and digital technology company and an alumni to the Disney Accelerator program. “This year, more than ever, we are working with companies with the potential to help define the future of media and entertainment together with Disney.”

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Berkonomics

APRIL 19, 2018

There are those in the recruiting industry that have attempted to do so and depending upon the size of the company and the position replaced, seeming to settle upon astronomical lost costs that overwhelm most of our ability to understand. A personal story illustrates the point too well. Then the meeting no CEO would want to attend.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2015

In my experience, finding real innovation in existing company environments is even tougher. Training and coaching. But these still need coaching on the unknowns, and ongoing education to keep up with the industry and the technology. Idea management. Innovation is not a one-time thing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2021

Here are a few facts from the National Council on Economic Education emphasizing the need for more business training, starting much earlier: More than 1 in 6 students in the USA do not have a baseline level of financial literacy. Nearly 1/4 of millennials spend more than they earn. Able to invest money wisely.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

Jason & Tyler brought forward 5 high quality companies and super high quality ones rose to the top and quickly got funded. There wasn’t a bad company tonight but I had a clear favorite. I suppose I should keep it to myself but I guess Jason will be helping to hype up all the companies anyways. Ambitious goals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

According to one study a while back, only 45% of founders plan to exit after stage one, and my guess is that less than half the remainder survive the next stage in their own company. Leaders are needed to coach each salesperson, keep the team on message, and spur new growth and goals. Separate marketing from sales for further leverage.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

If you're an employee in a big company, sometimes it can feel like you're not sure when your career is going. 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? Los Angeles-based Fuel50 (www.fuel50.com) What were you doing before Fuel50?

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2010

We did big, boring but necessary implementations for large companies. I next moved into system design where I designed computer systems to deal with large industrial natural gas customers and telecommunication companies. He coached me that I had to start with the answers. I started by doing billing systems. discuss.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

They write into their investment documents that they will occupy a seat on the board for as long as they are invested in the company, thinking of this as a protection for their investment and tool for them to influence growth. Once again, there is a need to educate board members that in conflict of interest cases, the corporation comes first.

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socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2017

Diamond Bar-based LifeRay (www.liferay.com) is a company that not too many people have heard of, but which is used to run the websites for such well known organizations like Toyota, T-Mobile, Coach, Fujitsu, Allianz, and Sesame Street. Bryan Cheung: We're an enterprise software company. How did the company start?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

I found this challenge and others outlined well in a new book, “ Running Your Small Business Like a Pro ,” by Andrew Frazier, who also brings many years of working with big and small companies. Big companies become divided up into silos, and often fail to collaborate or communicate. Find a coach who has a holistic view of all elements.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

I had a picture in the office of my first company with the logo above and the capital letters JFDI. (In I spent nearly a decade building software for large companies and then advising companies on the same. Yes, I know it’s my job as the CEO to be the coach for people and that’s fine. Analysis Paralysis.

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Xconomy

JUNE 29, 2016

After recently raising $18 million in Series B funding, the healthtech company also plans to add new products as it expands nationally among U.S. The system uses the Kinect motion tracking system to provide interactive feedback and educational information to patients during physical therapy. The company is growing up,” he added.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2010

We're looking for inventors interested in commercializing and spinning out their technology into a company. Universities have a bunch of companies on either side that have done that. If an existing company is not interested in licensing, and a researcher is not an entrepreneurial spirit, those projects go no where.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

By spending more time educating your board on your business you get more valuable advice from them. Growth like this, this early in a company’s lifecycle rarely happens. VCs crave the ability to help portfolio companies. If nothing else you will create board cohesion and board education by engaging your board.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

There''s just simply no way that the founder or the management or anyone with equity in the company, besides the investor with a six-x liq pref (liquidation preference), could make any money. So we started out with an objective of helping launch a thousand meaningful and enduring technology companies a year. like your firm.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

According to one study a while back, only 45% of founders plan to exit after stage one, and my guess is that less than half the remainder survive the next stage in their own company. Leaders are needed to coach each salesperson, keep the team on message, and spur new growth and goals. Separate marketing from sales for further leverage.

Startup 108

Startup Sales Metrics Entrepreneur 108

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2018

Yet if you already have some early adopters, that's a good indication that real marketing and education will likely bring your product or service mass acceptance. Acquiring business skills is not rocket science; they can be learned on the job, as well as supplemented by coaching from an experienced team and advisors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2017

For example, if I don’t know you, and you didn’t sell your last company for $800 million, your story needs to educate me on why anyone would bet on you to succeed, and how you would reward me for success. She speaks from years of experience coaching entrepreneurs and executives on the magic of a story.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2014

Yet if you already have some early adopters, that''s a good indication that real marketing and education will likely bring your product or service mass acceptance. Acquiring business skills is not rocket science; they can be learned on the job, as well as supplemented by coaching from an experienced team and advisors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Here are key maxims that I believe indicate a growth mindset rather than a fixed mindset: A need to learn from customers, rather than educate them. Foster leadership and accountability at all levels of the company. They contribute time to outside causes, and see their company as part of the greater ecosystem. Anyone can.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2016

Becka Klauber Richter is co-founder of the startup, and spoke to us about the company, which she co-founded with Kasey Edwards. What's your background, how did you start the company? I started as a teenager, and I did babysitting, life guarding, and swim coaching. Finally, what are the next steps for your company?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The program is based on a highly developed process created by entrepreneurial thought-leader and Ivy League educator Steve Blank , author of the book The Four Steps to the Epiphany. You will learn the importance of a “Minimum Viable Product” and how it applies to your company.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 14, 2020

Right now we offer one-on-one physical therapy online in California, and we’re offering health coaching in other states and are expanding our coverage in the coming weeks. ” “We really believe in building a clinical-first company,” she adds.

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Jason Nazar

JUNE 2, 2016

But for an immigrant with limited education, he did an amazing job of piecing together the smallest of savings to start buying real estate decades ago. Build Something to Pass On – When you birth and grow a company, at some point you inevitably think about its legacy. Cultivate Culture – A company culture always exists.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 2, 2011

We need to take some risks in education and in innovation in this country so anybody that it trying to break through the traditional mold and try to create a new model ought to be lauded, not attacked. The value of a college education. I am very passionate and on record about the value of education. Education is self discovery.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

According to one study a while back, only 45% of founders plan to exit after stage one, and my guess is that less than half the remainder survive the next stage in their own company. Leaders are needed to coach each salesperson, keep the team on message, and spur new growth and goals. Separate marketing from sales for further leverage.

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