Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

All prefer more flexible hours, the chance to work from home, and the traditions of lifetime loyalty to one company no longer apply. Loyalty to a given company now has to be inspired rather than assumed. Mentoring is the number one request by Millennials in the workplace. Thus mentoring inspires loyalty all around.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2023

When I heard a friend and business mentor say, “Your startup won’t fail if you don’t quit,” I realized that every entrepreneur should adopt “never give up” as their mantra. My idea is just too far ahead of its time.” My company grew too fast, and the pressure and costs are killing me.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2022

One of the dysfunctions I often see in my coaching and mentoring work with small businesses is team member burnout. It is no secret that the recent pandemic has exacerbated this problem as companies lost more and more of their employees due to illness, economic contraction, and voluntary resignations.

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Coach Organization Demand Resource 120

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Workship - Mentor. Unlike the mentor, who is a coach and teacher, the advocate inspires you to be the best that you can be. Unlike the mentor, who is a coach and teacher, the advocate inspires you to be the best that you can be. That’s why investors say they invest in people, not ideas. Workship - Advocate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Based on my experience and a business advisor and mentor, this is the ideal time to get back to the basics of business leadership and innovation. Team members recognize and support business leaders tenacious in their implementation of change, rather than ones who quickly jump from one idea to another, with minimal follow-through or analysis.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

In my role as a mentor to business professionals and entrepreneurs over the years, I have found that it’s important to take a hard look at the relationships around you on a regular basis. But, like most other skills, you can learn from these priorities: Everyone benefits from active mentoring. A good coach is not a critic.

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Tips Mentor Coach Activity 95

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2016

The idea is to have a partnership between Cedars-Sinai and Techstars, where we select ten healthcare startup companies focused on innovative technology and care delivery in healthcare. Both sets of mentors re really united to help drive the pace of growth of these startups, must faster than they might have grown traditionally.

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Mentor Startup Coach Ideas 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2016

The idea is to have a partnership between Cedars Sinai and Techstars, where we select ten healthcare startup companies focused on innovative technology and care delivery in healthcare. Both sets of mentors re really united to help drive the pace of growth of these startups, must faster than they might have grown traditionally.

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Mentor Startup Coach Ideas 100

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2021

The best entrepreneurs relish this role, while others struggle mightily and ultimately lose their health and their company. Having a great idea is necessary, but not sufficient, to create a great business. Success in business is all about actions, not ideas. Assume there is always a solution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2022

As a mentor to many early business leaders, I always emphasize that need to switch from a product focus to a team focus. These authors both come from a long career of helping companies strengthen team connections and reduce worker isolation. Perhaps your team member needs coaching on how to say “no,” or needs time off to rejuvenate.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 10, 2011

The format of the meetings is to have several entrepreneurs present their projects and to have an interactive discussion from the attendees with comments, suggestions and ideas for the presenters. The goal for the entrepreneurs is to receive coaching, mentoring and resources for their companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2020

As a startup mentor and advisor, I often contemplate what makes the difference between winners and losers. Too many aspiring entrepreneurs I know are very quick to come up with new ideas, but are not so quick on the execution side. The best business people are also the best mentors and coaches.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

I have often thought that creative endeavors where one has a quick turn-around between idea and realization of one’s work as one of the more fulfilling experiences in life. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Workship - Mentor. Unlike the mentor, who is a coach and teacher, the advocate inspires you to be the best that you can be. Unlike the mentor, who is a coach and teacher, the advocate inspires you to be the best that you can be. That’s why investors say they invest in people, not ideas. Workship - Advocate.

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Mentor Competition Summary Coach 135

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2022

He lived the philosophy that companies must be paranoid in order to survive, and continually disrupt their own markets to prevent overrun by competition. New blood and new ideas are keys to agility. You need to change that perception, by your daily actions. Be proactive rather than reactive to market change.

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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. He is always open to the ideas of his team, and even if he doesn't agree that an idea will work, he'll say so, but he often supports and funds it anyway.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2018

One of the lessons I have learned over the years as a business executive, and now as a mentor to entrepreneurs, is that if you really want employees who enthusiastically take ownership of their work, you have to start treating them like owners, not renters. Provide employee feedback and coaching in real time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

I concur, based on my own extended career in business and mentoring entrepreneurs. Examples of companies already coaching their teams on these mental strategies include Google, Starbucks, AOL, and more: Mentally be fully present and engaged in the current task. Presence is foundational for focus and mindfulness.

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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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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

chapter of the Media, Entertainment and Technology Alliance (METal) and the voice of KenRadio's World Technology Roundup on CBS Radio, Rutkowski has recruited a roster of mentors to coach entrepreneurs who enroll in the institute's programs in LA. You also provide the Institute, the mentors and your classmates with warrants on 3.5%

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 12, 2021

They asked me what my company did and I said “Good question! It’s like a motor and it needs to keep going, if it’s not going, it impacts your mental, emotional and physical being… So thinking about Noam’s statement about running to or from something – every company I have started to date has been running “to” something.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The traditional model for hiring permanent employees who can grow their career with your company just doesn’t work, and can jeopardize your business before it even gets traction. By hiring contract experts, less oversight and coaching is needed. In addition, you need the flexibility to pivot quickly as required.

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Competition Startup Demand Training 168

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2021

Obviously, both are required for a company to stay healthy and growing. As a long-time business advisor and mentor to entrepreneurs, I consistently find that the most thriving businesses are people-centric, and those team members create the best processes, rather than the other way around.

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Satisfaction Demand Resource Competition 154

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2020

When I heard a friend and business mentor say, “Your startup won’t fail if you don’t quit,” I realized that every entrepreneur should adopt “never give up” as their mantra. My idea is just too far ahead of its time.” My company grew too fast, and the pressure and costs are killing me.”

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Entrepreneur Startup Statistics Course 121

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2020

I concur, based on my own extended career in business and mentoring entrepreneurs. Examples of companies already coaching their teams on these mental strategies include Google, Starbucks, AOL, and more: Mentally be fully present and engaged in the current task. Presence is foundational for focus and mindfulness.

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Email Activity Social Media Coach 170

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2017

In today’s rapidly changing world, there are no sure-fire winning ideas, and experiments within clearly defined parameters are the only way to gauge the potential of emerging opportunities. He and I both believe that the key to high growth in any company is a learning culture, led from the highest executive levels.

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Coach Mentor Organization Entrepreneur 57

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

As a mentor to many entrepreneurs and business owners, I find that many of you have a real fear of uncomfortable interaction situations with individuals on your team, and often delay these discussions endlessly until a crisis occurs. Share with a peer to find new and helpful ideas. Real results only come from cumulative interactions.

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Summary Coach Mentor Training 116

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Investors are very focused on diligence, on business models that make sense, and those companies that have a definite competitive advantage and defensibility to what they're doing. The ideas and people seeking money are out there in quantity. Mike Napoli: We've revised the way we review companies at the prescreening stage.

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Tech Coast Angels Technical Review Angel Southern California 231

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2019

All prefer more flexible hours, the chance to work from home, and the traditions of lifetime loyalty to one company no longer apply. Loyalty to a given company now has to be inspired rather than assumed. Mentoring is the number one request by Millennials in the workplace. Thus mentoring inspires loyalty all around.

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Develop Development Mentor Coach 86

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). BuildOnline (the company I founded) has just announcement plans to be more aggressive in growing in the US. Let me not bury the lede.

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CTO Coach Google CTO Hire Yammer 359

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The idea of StartupWeekend Next is once you have your idea, what happens next?”. Any team can sign up, but it is geared toward entrepreneurs who have overcome the early hurdles of finding a business idea they are passionate about and forming a founding team, but do not know how to build a business model around it.

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Class Mentor Startup UCLA 98

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2018

The best entrepreneurs relish this role, while others struggle mightily and ultimately lose their health and their company. Having a great idea is necessary, but not sufficient, to create a great business. Success in business is all about actions, not ideas. Assume there is always a solution.

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Startup Entrepreneur Ideas Coach 84

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Ask for help from advisors and mentor your team. As you gather your team, recognize that they will need your help and coaching as well. Yet running a new company cannot always be a consensus-driven process, so you need to trust yourself in making the hard decisions. Summon the courage stay optimistic, yet humble.

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Startup Entrepreneur Social Media Coach 117

Frank Addante

OCTOBER 12, 2021

They asked me what my company did and I said “Good question! It’s like a motor and it needs to keep going, if it’s not going, it impacts your mental, emotional and physical being… So thinking about Noam’s statement about running to or from something – every company I have started to date has been running “to” something.

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Startup Case Study Ideas Invest 52

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2014

One of the interesting things about being a VC is that you often see companies in transition. I also see companies as they move from having taken $1-5 million from me to their next round where they raise $8-15 million from Series B investors and sometimes I lead at this round (we’re stage agnostic but 80% of our deals are seed & A).

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Startup Resource Venture Capital Activity 381

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 25, 2012

On August 9th, Startup Weekend San Diego and the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University partnered with Google to host the very first Startup Weekend focused on helping Veterans, Service Members and Military Families turn their visions into reality in creating a startup company.

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San Diego Startup Services Google 96

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2016

The best entrepreneurs relish this role, while others struggle mightily and ultimately lose their health and their company. Having a great idea is necessary, but not sufficient, to create a great business. Success in business is all about actions, not ideas. Assume there is always a solution.

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Startup Entrepreneur Ideas Coach 106