Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2022

Probably the most recognized design thinking business leader was Steve Jobs at Apple, as he drove the company from personal computers to new markets, including the iPhone and iPad. Coach others, rather than competing with others. They become the model for their followers.

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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. That's been very effective.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2022

In my experience, a healthy team is a prerequisite for a thriving business, innovation to meet market needs, and high customer loyalty. In business, this is all about the company values and purpose that give meaning and direction to your team. Other studies have shown a return of up to 400 percent for this approach.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2016

We caught up with Clayton Lewis , the company's CEO (and also a General Partner at Maveron), here in Los Angeles last week as it launched into this market. Clayton Lewis: What is interesting, is if you can find companies in any of the four sectors, it's rare to find those who look at the human product as you are, which is a system.

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 12, 2021

They asked me what my company did and I said “Good question! A number of years ago, I did a case study for Harvard Business School. A good friend, and college athletics coach, very wisely said to me “you can’t fill a big hole with a bunch of little things.” Help build many companies! I’m super excited about it!

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Probably the most recognized design thinking business leader was Steve Jobs at Apple, as he drove the company from personal computers to new markets, including the iPhone and iPad. Coach others, rather than competing with others. They become the model for their followers.

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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. Optimize the total customer experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2019

In fact, you may have noticed in a recent study , that the business CEO turnover rate last year was the highest in 10 years, and may go even higher this year. 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

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

I was recently contacted by an entrepreneur who was consider a few different business models for his company. I barely know the guy (or his markets) but he wanted me to weigh in one “which market I thought he should pursue.” We are money, advice, coaching, cheerleading, interventionist but not “the decider.”

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Like Steve Jobs, Michael Dell and Larry Ellison, he is one of the few startup Founders who remained at the helm of their respective companies throughout their entire maturation process. Effective startup leaders allow ideas to percolate from within their company, rather than attempting to monopolize the ideation process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2015

This may work for big companies who have specialized staffs, but it doesn’t work for startups and small businesses who are already understaffed and overloaded. Businesses stopped hiring for lifetime commitments some time ago, as markets change so rapidly and companies need to tune their workforce for changing economic conditions.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

When you raise money from investors you produce information that you are told they want and care about: A fund-raising deck that articulates your company strategy, plans, team, market, competitors and so forth. VCs (and LPs) have a vested interest in having more data, whether they want to invest in your company / firm or not.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2015

The good news is that none of these need be mutually exclusive, according to recent studies of market trends. Another article indicates that 80 percent of customers continue to base some portion of their buying decisions on their perceptions of the company’s ethics. Manage your company based on long-term priorities.

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 12, 2021

They asked me what my company did and I said “Good question! A number of years ago, I did a case study for Harvard Business School. A good friend, and college athletics coach, very wisely said to me “you can’t fill a big hole with a bunch of little things.” Help build many companies! I’m super excited about it!

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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. Optimize the total customer experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2013

One of the big advantages of being an entrepreneur and starting your company from scratch is that you get to set the culture, which is much easier than changing the culture of an existing business. Why not learn what you can from companies like Apple, who are leading the way with great growth and a great culture?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Probably the most recognized design thinking business leader was Steve Jobs at Apple, as he drove the company from personal computers to new markets, including the iPhone and iPad. Coach others, rather than competing with others. They become the model for their followers.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 6, 2012

As part of UC Santa Barbara’s Distinguished Lecture Series, serial entrepreneur, CEO Coach and Author Lex Sisney shared a preview of his newly released book, Organizational Physics: The Science of Growing a Business. Lex's new book, Organizational Physics , is compelling, as it applies the fundamental laws of physics to the world of business.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 12, 2012

People skills <again> People skills <and again> Market/technology acuity (patterns of success, domain expertise). Board skills (Startup coaching, mentoring, strategy, operational/growth). But none of them are substitutes for having started and run a company. Fundraising skills.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 2, 2011

We need to study humanities, religion, politics, biology, economics as well as computer science. Maybe 2 years of computer training would suit some people better than 4 years of book study? You built a company at 22. You have a stated goal of building your company. Single minded is good for some. Not for others.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

It’s true this was much bigger in the dot com era but I’ve studied the data and know that over the past decade these numbers are right. You invest across many funds just as VCs invest across many companies. It’s a market, after all. Let’s look at some great companies. And Coach Campbell.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2012

One of the big advantages of being an entrepreneur and starting your company from scratch is that you get to set the culture, which is much easier than changing the culture of an existing business. Why not learn what you can from companies like Apple, who are leading the way with great growth and a great culture?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2017

If you don’t focus on it, you can expect to be one of the 25 percent of CEO turnovers that occur every year from firing or forced retirement, as reported by a recent Harvard study. Business leadership requirements change just like market requirements. Coach others on how to get to the next level. Words are important.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 28, 2010

Years ago I was working in England and I worked for a very big company – Accenture. Anyway, I spent the first part of my career consulting for large companies. So we launched a global initiative to come up with our own unique strategy based on our years of strategy experience in advising (but never running) companies.

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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. Optimize the total customer experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

According to one study , 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. Weinfurter, who has made the leap a couple of times himself, and spent many years consulting with other companies who have done the same.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 25, 2015

It is so easy to get caught up in the day to day monotony and slowly drift away from the very mindset that is the foundation of our company. This step required some research, so I decided to study some of history’s greatest innovators. Be your best: John Wooden was one of the greatest coaches in American sports history.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 25, 2015

It is so easy to get caught up in the day to day monotony and slowly drift away from the very mindset that is the foundation of our company. This step required some research, so I decided to study some of history’s greatest innovators. Be your best: John Wooden was one of the greatest coaches in American sports history.

Coach 40

Coach Startup Ideas UCLA 40

Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

In 2016, the renowned international university programming tournament — attended by student competitors, coaches, and parents — took place in Phuket, Thailand. But longtime ICPC student coach Antonette Logar, Ph.D., In 2015, the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals were held in Marrakesh, Morocco.

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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. “That is going to stay the same but our goal is to build a network of practices across the country in partnership with the leading providers in each market.

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