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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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 12, 2021

We have a Startup Studio and Early Stage Investment Fund. Over the course of my “retirement” (yes, it is in quotes because I’m not sure it really was one! 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.” Doing good is good business!

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

Seed investors are aplenty and of course they need downstream money to fuel their early-stage bets. Of course these are great places to network with other investors, meet great entrepreneurs and keep your connections strong with senior execs at larger companies like Yahoo!, Of course I would like to be in every great deal ever done.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

and I thought if we brought the community together for common purpose we could create more of a sense of community to help new entrepreneurs get funded, assemble teams, raise profiles and help with biz dev, product, etc. Companies were getting funded more easily and many more companies were actually being created. So we went for it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

These days, with the many Internet articles and new courses available, most new professionals readily cross the gap from lack of business knowledge to knowing, but many never make it over the knowing versus doing gap. by Erica Peitler, a well-known leadership performance coach. Don’t let the memory of past actions limit thinking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2014

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. Of course, they may be out of money as well, but that is often more of an “excuse” than a reason. entrepreneur excuses funding investor startup'

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

These days, with the many Internet articles and new courses available, most new entrepreneurs readily cross the gap from lack of business knowledge to knowing, but many never make it over the knowing versus doing gap. by Erica Peitler, a well-known leadership performance coach. Don’t let the memory of past actions limit thinking.

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 12, 2021

We have a Startup Studio and Early Stage Investment Fund. Over the course of my “retirement” (yes, it is in quotes because I’m not sure it really was one! 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.” Doing good is good business!

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan. We generally have a policy to only fund entrepreneurs once the first version of a product has shipped or it near to shipping. So I asked Ethan to build his product first and then we would fund. The company was called Red Beacon. He was seeking $500k.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2018

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. Of course, they may be out of money as well, but that is often more of an “excuse” than a reason. So why do most startups fail?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

So part of playing an effective coach is helping the team to see the answer for themselves. Fred has of course been a public mentor to us all with his market-defining terminology that he popularized including “freemium” and “mobile first.” Don’t be in a rush to invest your fund.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

As an advisor and mentor for many startups and small business founders, following my initial career in big business, I realize that the key strategies to achieve success in small businesses are often different from those that make larger businesses successful. Find a coach who has a holistic view of all elements.

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JULY 19, 2015

Of course that’s true. Advisors / Coaches / Mentors. Entrepreneurs could learn about loneliness of success: nobody talks about. Mark Suster (@msuster) July 19, 2015. And the immediate reaction was obvious – that failure can be pretty lonely, too. We should try to have empathy for each other.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

Most top tier VCs return about 3x invested capital and outlier funds (the best of a vintage) might return 6-8x. But the larger funds usually have lower returns because they are often investing bigger dollars at later stages with less risk and therefore lower returns. Yet their next fund had Facebook in it. And Coach Campbell.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2016

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. Of course, they may be out of money as well, but that is often more of an “excuse” than a reason. So why do most startups fail?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

Even business school courses don’t teach you to operate strategically, deal with people objectively, and create loyalty within a diverse workforce. Investors don’t want to fund your stumbles. Early stage startup founders have to think tactically. These are areas where past stumbles are the best teachers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Even business school courses don’t teach you to operate strategically, deal with people objectively, and create loyalty within a diverse workforce. Investors don’t want to fund your stumbles. Early stage startup founders have to think tactically. These are areas where past stumbles are the best teachers.

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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. It’s a place where we’re going to put 250 like-minded people, where I can mentor him, you can mentor me,” Cohen said.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2011

Even business school courses don’t teach you to operate strategically, deal with people objectively, and create loyalty within a diverse workforce. Investors don’t want to fund your stumbles. Early stage startup founders have to think tactically. These are areas where past stumbles are the best teachers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

I admit that I haven’t yet read it but I’ve had numerous discussions with Brad over the years about board structure & conduct and consider him a mentor on the topic. Planning and dealing with extra-ordinary events: M&A, fund raising, crises. In the Early Days. As You Start to Mature. How to build a great forecast.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2010

Even business school courses don’t teach you to operate strategically, deal with people objectively, and create loyalty within a diverse workforce. Investors don’t want to fund your stumbles. Early stage startup founders have to think tactically. These are areas where past stumbles are the best teachers.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Naturally the countries reacted negatively to reporting to a centralized figure in the UK (and of course to no longer reporting to the CEO). It is such an under-discussed issue as we spend our time in startups mostly talking about products, marketing and fund raising. I *think* he found the conversation relieving and confirming.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 9, 2013

Knowing how much playing sports shaped the course of her life, it pained her to see these girls denied the opportunity. On the advice of mentors and friends, she started pounding the pavement and setting up meetings with people in that space who wanted to know what issue she was most passionate about. This baffled Katie.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

The basic components are obvious: talented founders, great engineers, angel money, venture capital, access to larger corporates (for business, funding & talent), great education / research (for IP breakthroughs) and a sufficient ecosystem of mentors, advisors, executive coaches and mavens. CincyTech today has $28.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2017

Investors don’t fund people with large egos, and your business won’t thrive with similar people on the team. No single person knows enough to solve every problem in a business, so the best business executives are always anxious to listen and learn from others, especially mentors and customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

Of course as a frequently traveler I know this, too. We are money, advice, coaching, cheerleading, interventionist but not “the decider.” They are there to help you correct your course when you want to make decisions that their history and wisdom tells them might lead you into a dark alley. Crowd funding now exists.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2016

I see this a lot in funding where an entrepreneur has struggled to raise money and spends all his or her time lamenting how lame investors are. If my objective is raising capital and I’m struggling, what can I learn about those who do get funded and how can I improve my odds by changing me ?” Everything has gone well to date.

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JULY 27, 2013

I see this a lot in funding where an entrepreneur has struggled to raise money and spends all their time lamenting how lame investors are. “If my objective is raising capital and I’m struggling, what can I learn about those who do get funded and how can I improve my odds by changing?” You raised your seed funds.

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