Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2021

Create innovative change from existing resources. The most effective leaders marshal existing resources and incent people to create innovative yet competitive solutions. True leaders don’t let their ego or competitive nature create a façade. That means accepting coaching and seeking mentoring, as well as giving it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2018

Every entrepreneur I know is short on resources, including time, money, and skills. The last thing they can afford is to waste any of these, but in my mentoring and coaching activities, I see it happening all too often. Recovery efforts are wasted resource which rarely succeeds. That’s a deadly waste you can’t afford.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2020

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. People are your best innovation resource. Accountability. Idea management.

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Coach Metrics Social Network Competition 144

Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

Whether the partner is a supplier looking to gain a lock on your business as it grows or a customer looking to create a competitive barrier through use of your product, such an investment typically carries fewer restrictions than from a professional investor and less oversight. The post Need money?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2021

People-centric leaders realize that the right motivated and accountable people are their real competitive advantage. Your team, properly selected, trained, and engaged, can focus on tomorrow’s requirements, learn from mistakes, and implement the constant improvements required to stay competitive.

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Satisfaction Demand Resource Competition 154

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. Coach: force for stability and mentoring. Analytical: synthesizer of hypotheses and data.

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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. They need you to be accessible on a planned and unplanned basis.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

Fortunately, the Startup of the Year program aims to make it easier for founders to connect with resources. Meet some of the amazing organizations that partner with the Startup of the Year program, and could be a valuable resource for you to help build your business. BlackTech Week (Miami, FL).

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 13, 2011

IF NOT, DO YOU KNOW HOW TO USE YOUR HUMAN RESOURCES ROLE TO CREATE THEM? In todays complex business environment, superior leadership skills are crucial in achieving and sustaining competitive advantage. Today, more than ever, executives are turning to outside coaches to discuss new ideas and obtain another perspective.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2022

On the marketing side of the equation, there are so many “marketing gurus” and “marketing resources” out there, the real challenge for most of us is to sort out the basic do’s and the don’ts that apply to startups. I like the guidance from marketing coach David Newman’s classic book “ Do It! Marty Zwilling.

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Marketing Startup Social Media Technical Review 141

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. You are the key to all of these constituents working together to win, especially in an increasingly competitive world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2019

These things are clearly good for morale, but its not so clear that they translate into a competitive advantage. Human Resources and other support functions can provide invaluable feedback and support, but if you count on them to move the needle on culture, it won’t work. Leaders own culture, supported by HR – not vice versa.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

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. Build and maintain your emotional intelligence.

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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. In today’s world, every organization needs to be in a constant state of change to stay competitive. If a project is off-schedule, the right people need to know, with recovery plans and additional resources required.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2018

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. People are your best innovation resource. Accountability. Idea management.

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Entrepreneur Coach Metrics Competition 64

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

Then, he'll need to patent it and create a plan to show opportunity, competition, and financial projections. Finally, implementation requires a commitment of real money and other resources that can’t be written off so easily as an idea ahead of it’s time. Yes, there are a lot of bridges to cross.

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Ideas Writing Examples Outsource 126

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Provide the resources and training to get the job done. Be sure to tie changes back to the “why” – customer value, business objectives, and competition. Through mentoring and coaching, you can build a culture of sharing and collaboration throughout the team. Don’t tolerate or play the blame game.

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Mentor Ideas Competition Examples 122

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2023

Use your support resources and access to coaching to solidify your mindset and personal values, and don’t back down prematurely. You become the winner when you outwit your competition. Never assume a victim mentality in a business challenge.

Satisfaction 101

Satisfaction Startup Social Media Summary 101

Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

Whether the partner is a supplier looking to gain a lock on your business as it grows or a customer looking to create a competitive barrier through use of your product, such an investment typically carries fewer restrictions than from a professional investor and less oversight. It’s an option, even though an expensive one.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2014

Every entrepreneur I know is short on resources, including time, money, and skills. The last thing they can afford is to waste any of these, but in my mentoring and coaching activities, I see it happening all too often. Recovery efforts are wasted resource which rarely succeeds. That’s a deadly waste you can’t afford.

Entrepreneur 115

Entrepreneur Resource Training Product 115

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2016

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. People are your best innovation resource. Accountability. Idea management.

Coach 64

Coach Metrics Competition Ideas 64

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2012

Training and coaching. Ongoing coaching from the top is essential to maintain the attitude and spirit. People are your best innovation resource. Sustainable innovation is really the only sustainable competitive advantage. Team members need to feel responsibility for on-time delivery. Idea management.

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Coach Ideas IP Sales 98

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2019

On the marketing side of the equation, there are so many “marketing gurus” and “marketing resources” out there, the real challenge for most of us is to sort out the basic do’s and the don’ts that apply to startups. I like the guidance from marketing coach David Newman’s classic book “ Do It! Marty Zwilling.

Marketing 97

Marketing Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review 97

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2011

Training and coaching. Ongoing coaching from the top is essential to maintain the attitude and spirit. People are your best innovation resource. Sustainable innovation is really the only sustainable competitive advantage. Team members need to feel responsibility for on-time delivery. Idea management.

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Coach Ideas IP Sales 93

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2017

Most business leaders today realize that smart management of scarce resources is the key to competitive success. Yet the truth is that a more scarce resource is really the time, talent, and energy of your team. It also means setting up a personalized coaching and mentoring system, and accelerated rotations for top talent.

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Product Startup Guide Framework 58

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2014

Beat the competition. Competition drives innovation, and innovation drives competition. Often times, you will find yourself working with people who "don''t know the ropes" and require extensive coaching and assistance. The cycle never stops. Hiring and firing decisions are hard, and that’s just the beginning.

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Startup Tips Satisfaction Entrepreneur 92

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

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. As best as I can tell, Foundry Group is also pretty close to the “platform light” side of the equation also, believing that they should have a firm with very few non-partner resources.

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Venture Capital Platform Startup Resource 150

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2017

On the marketing side of the equation, there are so many “marketing gurus” and “marketing resources” out there, the real challenge for most of us is to sort out the basic do’s and the don’ts that apply to startups. I like the guidance from marketing coach David Newman’s classic book “ Do It! Marty Zwilling.

Tips 75

Tips Marketing Technical Review Startup 75

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

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. We were originally operating as a coaching company, and we built out this assessment technology for our own clients. What is Fuel50?

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Help Southern California Startup Technical Review 100

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2014

On the marketing side of the equation, there are so many “marketing gurus” and “marketing resources” out there, the real challenge for most of us is to sort out the basic do’s and the don’ts that apply to startups. I like the guidance from marketing coach David Newman’s recent book “ Do It! Marty Zwilling.

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Technical Review Tips Marketing Entrepreneur 103

InfoChachkie

JULY 2, 2012

In contrast, Lex Sisney, author of Organizational Physics: The Science of Growing a Business , CEO Coach and Co-founder of Commission Junction has had success compartmentalizing such difficult high-performers. According to Lex, “Sometimes you just can’t say no to great talent.

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Startup Class RSS Statistics 182

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2013

On the marketing side of the equation, there are so many “marketing gurus” and “marketing resources” out there, the real challenge for most of us is to sort out the basic do’s and the don’ts that apply to startups. I found some help from marketing coach David Newman’s new book “ Do It! Marty Zwilling.

Startup 103

Startup Marketing Social Media Technical Review 103

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 4, 2014

But I would posit that in order to sustainably build great products in an intensely competitive industry with skills shortages – people management is one of the most critical soft skills organizations need. I think as a tech industry we have bred a culture that places more emphasis on product excellence than managing human behavior.

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Startup Technical Review Course Press 340

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2010

Training and coaching. Ongoing coaching from the top is essential to maintain the attitude and spirit. People are your best innovation resource. Sustainable innovation is really the only sustainable competitive advantage. Team members need to feel responsibility for on-time delivery. Idea management.

Coach 49

Coach Ideas IP Sales 49

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I believe that it is part of the DNA of an entrepreneur – being so competitive that you’re practically sick when you lose. They’re competitive. It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits. They decided to re-open the competition for 3-4 more weeks.

Outsource Development 333

Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 333

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I believe that it is part of the DNA of an entrepreneur – being so competitive that you’re practically sick when you lose. They’re competitive. It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits. They decided to re-open the competition for 3-4 more weeks.

Outsource Development 328

Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 328

Xconomy

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Plug and Play San Diego, established in 2013 as a satellite of the Sunnyvale, CA-based incubator, has funneled 15 local startups through the Silicon Valley program after providing some coaching and other services in San Diego. We would like to launch an accelerator based here, and bring in additional resources from the Bay Area.”.

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