Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

Investors, partners, team members, and customers implicitly value or devalue a startup based on the leader’s physical presence, emotional identity, social skills, intellectual agility, moral values, and past performance in the domain. I have paraphrased his key points here as follows: Leader personal impact. People relationship focus.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2020

Time and experience in business teaches you to listen for potential customers, and carefully evaluate the real business potential. It takes time to build networks, know-how, and the leadership skills to chart a successful path and mobilize others around you. Play to the fastest growing customer segment you know.

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socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2017

Diamond Bar-based LifeRay (www.liferay.com) is a company that not too many people have heard of, but which is used to run the websites for such well known organizations like Toyota, T-Mobile, Coach, Fujitsu, Allianz, and Sesame Street. We focus on digital transformation and customer experience. What is LifeRay?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

VCs should be more of a coach than proscriptively telling you what to do. Think of web vs. mobile. I’ve sat on ad tech boards with board members who clearly knew little about impressions, fill rates, CTRs, RTB, eCPMs or the difficulties & opportunities of embedded mobile SDKs vs. HTML5. I think of VCs as coaches.

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Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

The company has a majority stake in Team Liquid, a top esports team in the US and Europe with 60 pro players, coaches, and analysts competing in nine games as well as a minority stake in Super League Gaming. Brit + Co is a digital media company that inspires, educates and entertains real women with a creative spirit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2016

These might include anyone bringing in a new customer, representing the company in a good social cause, or participating in a video or social media campaign on their own time. A single marketing coordinator can accelerate your efforts by being the coach and mentoring key members of the team on soft marketing. Reward success.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

The functions of an early-stage board are pretty obvious and well understood: Providing introductions to customers, biz dev partners, recruits, the press, other investors, etc. Over time you start to figure out who you customers are and how to sell to them or how to get them to adopt your products if you’re a consumer-oriented startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan. And because I wanted Ethan to be able to attract a great team, build & iterate a product, test it with initial customers and refine his strategy before having to take the wrappers off of his company. The company was called Red Beacon. So there you have it.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2017

Our interview this morning is with Jonathan Zweig , the CEO of Los Angeles-based AppOnboard (www.apponboard.com), which has created software which allows mobile app developers--and in particular, mobile game developers--to create demos of those games which can be played without having to download and install those apps.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Investors, partners, team members, and customers implicitly value or devalue a startup based on the leader’s physical presence, emotional identity, social skills, intellectual agility, moral values, and past performance in the domain. I have paraphrased his key points here as follows: Leader personal impact. People relationship focus.

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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. We then help surround founders with other talent who want to join important causes but don’t have the startup idea themselves.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : SocialStay is: "An easy to set up & manage mobile platform designed for the hospitality industry. Month by month, the hospitality business is sorting out how mobile plays a role in increasing revenue and driving loyalty. Seth attended UCSB but dropped out to start a denim company. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Dr. Yager is a real guru on this subject, having been a productivity coach, trainer, and author for many years, and still found time to squeeze out over 30 books, including five related to this subject. It’s never good to let a team member or customer request be ignored until the last minute. Get products out the door and shipped.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2014

Dr. Yager is a real guru on this subject, having been a productivity coach, trainer, and author for many years, and still found time to squeeze out over 30 books, including five related to this subject. It’s never good to let a team member or customer request be ignored until the last minute. Get products out the door and shipped.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 5, 2012

Tyler Crowley, of Sqweal, Launch, ThisWeekInStartups, Open Angel Forum, and Mahalo, stopped by to give a quick coaching session on pitch prep. Tyler has helped coach dozens of companies through pitching and presenting at Launch Conf and formerly TechCrunch 50. Sunday morning rolled around and it was down to crunch-time. What a SWLA.

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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.”

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

And you can always bring on a senior person as a mentor / coach to help guide you personally to become a better sales leader until you’re ready for somebody more senior on your team. He felt that we didn’t price correctly and he didn’t want to see customers until he had a grip on it. WTF!! ?? !!

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

For example, if you’re looking to approach Kleiner Perkins it’s worth knowing that my friend Matt Murphy runs their iFund and therefore is the in-house expert on all things mobile. He knows the history of all of the payment gateways, mobile payment platforms, credit offerings, remittance companies, etc. Test interest.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

The proof nowadays is certainly in winning customers--whether that is a consumer or in the enterprise. To Mark's point--give us a sense of market size, where they are 100 million people who will buy your product, or why there are 10,000 customers who will pay thousands of dollars for your product.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2010

They mostly understand your company, your customers, your competitors and your market but never as precisely as you do. And let’s be honest, other than money and coaching most VC’s add little value to your company strategy. Or if you’re a mobile ad network and they announce iAd – same thing.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

The “ TenHands ” name emerged from the concept and philosophy of John Wooden, the UCLA basketball coach, who emphasized the value of teamwork and insisted that all ten hands (five players) touch the ball before shooting. We even have the ability to run in partner or customer own data centers where desired. Future plans?

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