Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

There are other social networks in the list of 300 “major sites” recognized by Wikipedia that entrepreneurs use for networking, depending on where you are in the world, like Viadeo, Ryze, and Sina Weibo, but talking to friends on Facebook probably won’t help you. Join and actively participate in local business organizations.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Ninety days or longer later, if that person is terminated by management, it often is for actions resulting from the person’s relationship with others in the organization more often than failure to perform the specific task for which the person was hired. We carefully vet the potential hire for experience required.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2022

Great leaders strive to treat each person in their organization as a valued individual, rather than as a “human resource.” Help constituents find meaning in what they do. Strong leaders define and explain the organization’s purpose (why), priorities in delivering on that purpose, and demonstrate their own personal commitment to each.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

Friends, family and fools: [Email readers, continue here…] This term, although pejorative, describes the typical mix of early investors in a small, young growing business. Professional angels, often organized into groups, usually invest from $100,000 to $1 million in a young enterprise. The post Need money?

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Berkonomics

JUNE 26, 2014

Angel investors, particularly those in organized angel groups, are typically former entrepreneurs who have had successful liquidity events in their pasts, or executives of companies who’ve retired with the funds from their stock options. Email readers, continue here.]

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2022

The largest and most successful businesses of the past have been traditionally driven by autocratic and powerful leaders who managed a highly structured organization of subordinates. In this age of world-wide markets, you need all the help you can get to attract loyal customers. Simplify the feedback sharing process for you and them.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Understanding where your VC partner sits in their respective fund and where their fund is in the cycle of its investment lifecycle will help you understand your VCs behavior. In addition to helping manage the board Chris also helps represent the interests of the angel investors / common stock holders. Email updates frequently.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2022

The next step is to effectively and continuously communicate through multiple channels, including walking-the-talk, email, and really listening to feedback. Many leaders do this today by supporting and promoting a higher-level purpose, beyond profits, such as helping the disadvantaged, sustaining the environment, or Conscious Capitalism.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

There are other social networks in the list of 200 “major sites” recognized by Wikipedia that entrepreneurs use for networking, depending on where you are in the world, like Orkut, Viadeo, and Sina Weibo, but talking to friends on Facebook probably won’t help you. Join and actively participate in local business organizations.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 11, 2012

Vince Lombardi is widely considered the best football coach of all time, and ultimately may be the greatest coach in the history of all sports. The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.”. Coach Lombardi put teamwork first (which is why we did, too). Commitment .

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

I hired a sales coach named Kai Krickle who helped me figure out how to close more deals. He told me to stop responded to RFPs where I wasn’t the person who helped write the specs for the RFPs. He told me, “if you didn’t help shape the RFP somebody else did and you’ve already lost.” How should I best prepare for that?”

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Berkonomics

MAY 26, 2016

That knowledge will serve as a compass as they continue to learn and grow in the organization. Instead of spending a lot of time managing them, invest a little quality time in coaching them. Email readers, continue here…] In addition, take advantage of the trend in the training and development space toward self–directed learning.

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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. Organizations Are Adaptive Systems. Organizations are complex systems that adapt to their environment in its totality.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 19, 2018

Perhaps this is a good time to speak about senior managers that are well-entrenched in the organization but are under-performers because the organization has passed their ability or span of control. An industrial psychologist helps (me) the CEO. How about senior managers no longer at speed?

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Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

Email readers, continue here…] Bootstrapping: This term describes your ability to start a business with little investment and grow it using internally-generated funds. Professional angels, often organized into groups, usually invest from $100,000 to $1 million in a young enterprise.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2016

There are other social networks in the list of over 200 now recognized by Wikipedia that entrepreneurs use for networking, depending on where you are in the world, like Orkut, Netlog, and Sina Weibo, but talking to friends on Facebook probably won’t help you. Join and actively participate in local business organizations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2013

There are other social networks of the 200 or so now recognized by Wikipedia that entrepreneurs use for networking, depending on where you are in the world, like Orkut, Netlog, and Sina Weibo, but talking to friends on Facebook probably won’t help you. Join and actively participate in local business organizations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2012

There are other networks that also work, depending on where you are in the world, like Ryze, Plaxo, and Facebook, but setting up an account on MySpace probably won’t help you. Join and actively participate in local business organizations. Remember it helps to give a little to get something back.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

The goal for this organization is four-fold: To provide mentorship for some of the most promising young companies based in Los Angeles or willing to relocate to LA. And my company is hugely relevant to what they’re doing so having an advocate at senior levels there is certainly a help.” For the past 2.5

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

It’s a human being inside the buying organization who has trusted you. But you realize that you can be more helpful as a coach. And yes, I sleep better at night as a coach. It’s about wanting the right speaking slot at an important conference and hounding the organizer until he lets you do it.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

For years now, companies have been forced to choose between cumbersome, expensive Virtual Data Rooms and decentralized, unsecure email to manage their complex transactions. At BigVisible, he coached teams at Capital Group as part of a large 1,400 person company-wide agile transformation. million Raised. and Schlumberger.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

There are other networks that also work, depending on where you are in the world, like Ryze, Plaxo, and Facebook, but setting up an account on MySpace probably won’t help you. Join and actively participate in local business organizations. Remember it helps to give a little to get something back.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

The best VCs don’t try to help entrepreneurs. But the people whom I consider best in this industry are quite helpful indeed. And Coach Campbell. Hard to imagine that Dick joined “organically” or that his becoming CEO also was organic. Many don’t return my emails on time.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

We try to hire deeply analytical associates to can help companies problem solve and who make us better investors. So we like to behave like we don’t know any better than you – we can just bring an outside perspective to help spar you and make you a better decision-maker through the process. That’s healthy.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 5, 2012

As Avesta Rasouli, SWLA Co-organizer and Founder of Coloft says, “Go sell something! Tyler Crowley, of Sqweal, Launch, ThisWeekInStartups, Open Angel Forum, and Mahalo, stopped by to give a quick coaching session on pitch prep. Coffee is for closers!” making this their first SWLA.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2012

Obviously if we continue in discussions with you we would be more than happy to organize reference calls for you to validate our success. He forwarded an annoyed email to my main contact at Salesforce. I often coach that this period is often when you can engender great confidence from the partner. What did he do?

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

This absurd statement caused me to realize that I had done a poor job of instilling a sense of frugality into our organization. For instance, whenever someone at your venture saves your company money, send a company-wide email acknowledging their accomplishment. These words were actually uttered by an otherwise intelligent human being.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 24, 2012

We wanted to help prevent burn-out and inspire others to take time for themselves. Our next retreat is September 13th-16th… and if people mention this blog post in an email to info@thedigitaldetox.org , we can give them a 10% discount on the retreat price. Do you do corporate retreats, coaching or even?

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Often grouped into formal organizations, these investors are sophisticated, helpful, and connected. First, angel investment groups and organized angel funds come in all sizes from a few organized angels to large groups of four hundred or more. Angel investment groups or funds. How many angel groups are there?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2019

In addition, the discipline of producing it, like writing a business plan, will help you immensely in understanding the key elements that drive you and your business. If you sell to other business organizations, a book is a huge asset in reducing their perceived selection risk. Having a book gives you instant credibility with clients.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 12, 2011

I found one of my joys in angel investing, putting money to work by investing time and money into promising young entrepreneurs much like I once was, coaching them, putting them together with others who have needed skills, helping to build someone else’s dream. Email readers, continue here.]

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Berkonomics

APRIL 3, 2014

Often grouped into formal organizations, these investors are sophisticated, helpful, and connected. First, angel investment groups come in all sizes from a few organized angels to large groups of three hundred or more. There are three classes of equity investors for early stage businesses that we have not yet considered.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

The following day, I again tried asking for access in order to setup everyone’s email. I explained that we had people who had already committed to helping execute the vision and that I needed to be involved in these types of decisions he was making. Again, the answer I got was, “I’m on it.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2013

.” On the other hand, if the chip on your shoulder is, “I’m not treated fairly by the system, boo hoo, I’m different and that’s why you aren’t helping me” that chip can be a big negative. But even if a VC is nasty a rant email back isn’t the right way to channel your frustration.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

But I strive to impact the lives of many more through hours of coaching entrepreneurs, challenging people to be better, making human connections for people or providing timely advice. Being helpful doesn’t mean telling every person their ideas are great. Help a young person get their first job. If I need to be blunt I am.

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