Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2023

A recent Department of Education study shows that soft (interpersonal) skills have become more important for success than hard (technical) skills. Entrepreneurs need leadership, teamwork, listening, and coaching skills, which you can learn from advisors and networking with peers. Your reputation is the single greatest asset you have.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Servant leaders educate through words and actions, and they encourage their people to set aside self-serving behaviors in favor of serving others. We all need more time to focus on positive results, rather than hear coaching only on things gone wrong. Tell them why it is important and how good you feel.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Some people even believe that entrepreneurs must be born with the right genes, and no element of education is relevant. In my view, the most effective entrepreneurs are those with a background of an array of real-life experiences, both positive and negative, as well as good academic and coaching activities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

Switch your attention from product development to sales. Leaders are needed to coach each salesperson, keep the team on message, and spur new growth and goals. Management guides people in what needs to be done, by creating sustainable and repeatable systems, with education and guidance to make sure all efforts are productive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2020

A recent Department of Education study shows that soft (interpersonal) skills have become more important for success than hard (technical) skills. Entrepreneurs need leadership, teamwork, listening, and coaching skills, which you can learn from advisors and networking with peers. Your reputation is the single greatest asset you have.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Her network from her educational institutions alone has friends in all of the top tech, media & banking institutions. She is a coach and mentor to team members. That will coincide with her developing her unique pipeline and starting to get a sense of her focus areas. But she also has the temperament, which is important.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Some people even believe that entrepreneurs must be born with the right genes, and no element of education is relevant. In my view, the most effective entrepreneurs are those with a background of an array of real-life experiences, both positive and negative, as well as good academic and coaching activities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2015

Business risks are not just development risks. Training and coaching. But these still need coaching on the unknowns, and ongoing education to keep up with the industry and the technology. Value creation. Innovative technologies have no value until they are turned into solutions to real customer problems. Idea management.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

Some people even believe that entrepreneurs must be born with the right genes, and no element of education is relevant. In my view, the most effective entrepreneurs are those with a background of an array of real-life experiences, both positive and negative, as well as good academic and coaching activities.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

To give visibility to these companies to: Sources of funding (angels / VCs), business development partners, mentors who have themselves built successful companies, the press and potential employees to hire. The first two years of the program focused on education & mentorship. This education will continue. So we went ahead.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2014

Also dont confuse a business advisor with a business coach. An advisors aim is to teach you what to do and how, in specific situations, unlike a coach who helps you develop your generic skills for deciding what to do and how. The advisor helps the entrepreneur fill an experience gap, and a coach helps fill a skill gap.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 18, 2010

I set out some simple objectives, picked 13 startup CEO’s, planned a series of events, spent time personally trying to coach people through their fund raising processes and waited to see where it went. On the funding, business creation, business development fronts I think we did quite well. What did we need to improve?

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Berkonomics

APRIL 19, 2018

I was shocked and disoriented, a CEO with no idea of the urgency of the situation that was developing, since there had been no warning. I have an industrial psychology educational background but could not count upon myself to be completely objective here, of course.). But, he stated, as I recall, “This one is for the books.”

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Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

And over the past three years, Imperson has developed conversational chatbots powered by their artificial intelligence for several Disney projects, including most recently for Walt Disney World’s Pandora – The World of Avatar , according to a press release. Epic Games.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

In addition they are a platform (the OS part) where they’re encouraging developers to build third party apps on their platform. ThereNow has build a platform (physical camera + software platform) to help remote coaches help improve teachers. Udemy is an online education platform similar to EduFire and others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2011

As background, I attended several educational institutions both in the US and abroad. This provided me with a good education and numerous important contacts around the world. Now that I had spare time I started to re-engage with educational institutions, professional organizations, neighbors and old friends.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Switch your attention from product development to sales. Leaders are needed to coach each salesperson, keep the team on message, and spur new growth and goals. Management guides people in what needs to be done, by creating sustainable and repeatable systems, with education and guidance to make sure all efforts are productive.

Startup 97

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The program is based on a highly developed process created by entrepreneurial thought-leader and Ivy League educator Steve Blank , author of the book The Four Steps to the Epiphany. Customer Development. What you will get at NEXT: You will be taught the what, how, and why of the customer development process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

For example, in the sales silo of my former organization, it was common to point to marketing or development as the source of a sales issue, but communication across to these organizations took forever, and agreeing on a common solution was difficult. Find a coach who has a holistic view of all elements.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2018

A recent Department of Education study shows that soft (interpersonal) skills have become more important for success than hard (technical) skills. Entrepreneurs need leadership, teamwork, listening, and coaching skills, which you can learn from advisors and networking with peers. Your reputation is the single greatest asset you have.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

Greater Fargo Moorhead Economic Development Corporation (Fargo, ND). Our local startups have always been able to make some great connections at Innovate Celebrate ,” said John Machacek, SVP Finance and Entrepreneurial Development of GFMEDC, about the Startup of the Year program. Indiegogo (San Francisco,CA and New York, NY).

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Xconomy

JUNE 29, 2016

The system uses the Kinect motion tracking system to provide interactive feedback and educational information to patients during physical therapy. The system coaches patients through their rehab exercises, monitors their performance, and enables physical therapists and physicians to track a patient’s progress.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Yes, I know it’s my job as the CEO to be the coach for people and that’s fine. But “he didn’t have the budget to hire a developer until he had raised money!&#. He went out and found a developer and built a product. Should she take a chance and potentially ruffle feathers? He looked stunned.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2013

A recent Department of Education study shows that soft (interpersonal) skills have become more important for success than hard (technical) skills. Entrepreneurs need leadership, teamwork, listening, and coaching skills, which you can learn from advisors and networking with peers. Your reputation is the single greatest asset you have.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Here are key maxims that I believe indicate a growth mindset rather than a fixed mindset: A need to learn from customers, rather than educate them. Successful entrepreneurs start with a customer problem, and develop a solution, rather than the other way around. Develop market insights and a growth vision far beyond today.

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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. However, they tend to be maverick developers in a large organization, or working independently.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2010

In many cases these issues boil down to developing and maintaining effective relationships.Our educational system has a bias towards “technical” skills and individual achievement. You need to transition from player to coach. Similarly, transitioning to “coach” is difficult. You were good at it.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

By spending more time educating your board on your business you get more valuable advice from them. If nothing else you will create board cohesion and board education by engaging your board. When we recommended that Rob get a CEO coach he not only embraced it but craved it and thanked us for suggesting it. Assigns tasks.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 14, 2015

codeSpark develops the kids' game The Foos , which teaches kids the principles behind software programming, all without words, even for those who can't read or don't speak English. Like me, he was a dad, has three kids, and was a Lego Robotics coach for 7 years. I needed a partner to build the game I wanted to build.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Switch your attention from product development to sales. Leaders are needed to coach each salesperson, keep the team on message, and spur new growth and goals. Management guides people in what needs to be done, by creating sustainable and repeatable systems, with education and guidance to make sure all efforts are productive.

Startup 108

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socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2016

I started as a teenager, and I did babysitting, life guarding, and swim coaching. How did you handle going from a background in child care, to developing and app and figuring out the technology side of things? What's your background, how did you start the company? I have a background much like many of our sitters now have.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2016

A recent Department of Education study shows that soft (interpersonal) skills have become more important for success than hard (technical) skills. Entrepreneurs need leadership, teamwork, listening, and coaching skills, which you can learn from advisors and networking with peers. Your reputation is the single greatest asset you have.

Entrepreneur 58

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

This second annual fest brings together technology leaders, startup CEOs, investors, Hollywood studio executives, entrepreneurs, developers, students and more to celebrate LA’s dynamic technology industries with panels, workshops, hackathon, mixers, and a start-up showcase spotlighting 40 local startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2015

Try managing a diverse team of people with different ages, education levels, incomes and motivations.” I have some other portfolio companies with large telesales departments, call centers or even deliver truck drivers and it is awe-inspiring to see them develop leadership and empathy for the diverse set of people they employ.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Switch your attention from product development to sales. Leaders are needed to coach each salesperson, keep the team on message, and spur new growth and goals. Management guides people in what needs to be done, by creating sustainable and repeatable systems, with education and guidance to make sure all efforts are productive.

Startup 56

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

Jonathan Lehmann: I was awarded the Larry Wolfen Entrepreneurial Spirit Award at UCLA, after getting amazing coaching from Matt Ridenour in our business plan development class. That allowed me to take a summer to develop the new idea, and transform it into a business. It has been really amazing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Switch your attention from product development to sales. Leaders are needed to coach each salesperson, keep the team on message, and spur new growth and goals. Management guides people in what needs to be done, by creating sustainable and repeatable systems, with education and guidance to make sure all efforts are productive.

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