Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2020

In my experience, finding real innovation in existing company environments is even tougher. It starts with a vision, but benefits quickly from a structured process of idea generation, evaluation, prototyping, customer feedback, and success metrics. Training and coaching. People are your best innovation resource.

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 30, 2021

According to consistent feedback over the past several years, even in the best companies, employees seem stuck at less than 40 percent happy and "fully engaged.” Enhance intrinsic motivation through coaching. That’s a huge opportunity for productivity in your business, as well as your team well-being.

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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 29, 2021

Obviously, both are required for a company to stay healthy and growing. Here are the key reasons that I recommend that aspiring leaders focus on people before process: Customers judge the business by the people quality. Leaders who focus on team communication are also more successful in dealing with partners and customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2020

He brings a wealth of experience to the table, based on years of consulting work with middle market companies around the world. If you start with a distorted or biased view of what your company needs, no execution is likely to achieve the results that win. Doing what it takes to win involves risk and sacrifice.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2022

by Donna Cutting, who is a globally-recognized guru on employee culture and optimizing customer service. In my experience, a healthy team is a prerequisite for a thriving business, innovation to meet market needs, and high customer loyalty. Emotional stability. Spiritual connections. Environmental safety. Occupational satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2022

Be sure to encompass all your constituents, especially including customers. Whole Foods , for example, has built their business with a commitment to natural and organic foods, and have a culture of loyal employees and customers, resulting in 500 stores worldwide. Commit to delivering a positive customer experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2023

A business entity has to be created and real resources applied. 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. Venture where no business has gone before.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2022

The challenge for each of you is to get it handled quickly and effectively, without losing the trust of constituents , as well as customers. Provide tools and resources as required. The challenge for many bosses is to recognize when their team should be coaching them. Get advice before jumping to conclusions.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2017

Yet if you don’t spend some resources preparing for the changes in the marketplace we already know about, there may be no tomorrow for your business. I believe these factors are key to the future success of every new startup, as well as every mature company: Leadership must be values-based and people focused.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2023

I found some good guidance with practical specifics to accomplish this new type of leadership in a recent book, “ Your Resource is Human ,” by Melissa Romo. She brings more than twenty years of experience building and working with globally dispersed teams and Fortune 500 companies around the world. and leave time for the answer.

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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 Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2022

The classic book, “ Hunting in a Farmer's World: Celebrating the Mind of an Entrepreneur ,” by serial entrepreneur and business coach John F. In business, entrepreneurs hunt for new innovative solutions to problems, new ways of beating competitors, new markets, and new customers. These are the ultimate hunters.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

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. Venture capital comes with a cost, and there are no bargains for the company when taking such an investment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

He went on to start many successful companies, including General Electric. Don’t be hesitant to use coaches, mentors, and other resources to test and improve your image by others, and your perceptions of business realities and biases. The business world today is very competitive, and customers are more and more demanding.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 16, 2010

AccessEN will host an interactive discussion on the topic of values-based balance led by Kimberly Roush, founder and CEO of All-Star Coaching, at its monthly forum. who will address the possible challenges of attracting the right talent and customers faced by a start-up company constrained by limited resources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2022

Thus, ever after years as an executive in IBM and other companies, I’m still looking for the magic. Great leaders strive to treat each person in their organization as a valued individual, rather than as a “human resource.” You must take the initiative to talk to customers, suppliers, other employees, and understand the process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2020

For the business to prosper, every employee, and your customers, must know and relate to your core values, such as product excellence, care for the environment, and personal integrity. Thus you must constantly prepare for this stage by listening to customers, measuring customer value, and watching outside forces.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2018

In my experience, finding real innovation in existing company environments is even tougher. It starts with a vision, but benefits quickly from a structured process of idea generation, evaluation, prototyping, customer feedback, and success metrics. Training and coaching. People are your best innovation resource.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

A business entity has to be created and real resources applied. 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. Venture where no business has gone before.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Provide the resources and training to get the job done. These days, customers as well as team members, need to be able to relate to a higher purpose for your business, such as protecting the environment, or helping the disadvantaged. Be sure to tie changes back to the “why” – customer value, business objectives, and competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2022

Thus I was pleased to see the same conclusion in a new book, “ CEO Excellence ,” by Carolyn Dewar, Scott Keller, and Vikram Malhotra, each a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company. You need to make it about more than money, focus on future possibilities, solve for the whole, and kill as much as you create.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

Richards--a serial entrepreneur who has been involved in a number of technology companies here, including NTI Group (sold to Blackboard), Internships.com, MP3.com, Now we have a thousand large companies into it, and if you name a big company, they're a customers of ours, from Starbucks to NASA.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2016

In my experience, finding real innovation in existing company environments is even tougher. It starts with a vision, but benefits quickly from a structured process of idea generation, evaluation, prototyping, customer feedback, and success metrics. Training and coaching. People are your best innovation resource.

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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. We're a disruptor, the third wave in human resources technology. 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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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2010

We did big, boring but necessary implementations for large companies. In billing we literally started thinking about all of the types of bills that would be generated for customers: full payment, partial payment, split payment, senior discount, student discount, level pay plan, etc. I started by doing billing systems. discuss.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2019

In this era of rapid change, you can’t afford to stop learning, or you will find that your competitors, your customers, and your team, may soon be following someone else. Most people agree that leadership is primarily a set of behaviors that capitalize on relationships and a current market and customer understanding in a complex world.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2016

We help founders through difficult moments, we help coach, we act as sparring partners, we help them resolve conflicts when they’re fighting with co-founders and we help them deal with adversity as well as successes. For some companies it is now > 70% of the deals they’re closing and they’ve seen it as their secret weapon.

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socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2019

I was previously at Salesforce Ventures for almost four years, focused on investments in companies in the enterprise software space which were strategic to Salesforce. I got started in investment banking, focused on helping medical companies buy technology companies, and then later in the enterprise space and in the cloud.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

The classic book, “ Hunting in a Farmer's World: Celebrating the Mind of an Entrepreneur ,” by serial entrepreneur and business coach John F. In business, entrepreneurs hunt for new innovative solutions to problems, new ways of beating competitors, new markets, and new customers. These are the ultimate hunters.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2012

Technologists often insist that new things can’t be invented on a schedule, but successful companies seem to be able to do it on a regular basis. Successful innovation turns ideas into money, to enhance customer value, and thus shareholder value. Training and coaching. People are your best innovation resource.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Each VC has their own take on which services to provide and mostly they’re free but some smaller VCs charge portfolio companies for use of these services but usually at a cheap cost. Other firms like Google bring massive resources to design or engineering and as as corporate VC can offer things normal VC firms can’t offer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2018

For example, according to recent research from Bain & Company , Apple, Netflix, Google, and Dell employees are 40 percent more productive than the average, even though they are no smarter or more experienced. Practice process coaching, but not edicting decisions. Give team members the training, tools, and data to do the job.

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Jason Nazar

JUNE 2, 2016

By mastering negotiation you’ll always have more resources to accomplish your goals. Nobody Else Will Figure it Out for You – Nobody else will get your customers, or figure out the toughest business challenges for you. Build Something to Pass On – When you birth and grow a company, at some point you inevitably think about its legacy.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

He says it basically comes down to three key functions: Sets the overall vision and strategy of the company and communicates it to all stakeholders. Recruits, hires, and retains the very best talent for the company. Run great meetings (don’t be a productivity drain on the company). Selling the company.

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