Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2016

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. Don’t forget business writing and communication. Get involved in startup-business incubator activities with peers at school.

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JULY 1, 2010

We all like to think of startups as “non hierarchic&# organizations and to some extent that should be true. I never built a Google-sized business but I did build an organization from scratch that grew to 120 employees in 5 countries before we sold it. The organization gets used to it and adjusts. Skipping is insidious.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

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. Don’t forget business writing and communication. Get involved in startup-business incubator activities with peers at school.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2014

If you’re an early investor like I am that often means writing the first $2-3 million check into a business that previously had either survived on fumes or on a $500,000 angel round. The C-round CEO still gets her hand dirty but shouldn’t be a control freak or become a bottleneck in the organization. But you have him now.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

25 Years of Writing Code. Adam Sroka, an agile software innovator, is a self-taught programmer with 25 years of writing code and previously combined his coding skills with his knowledge of agile and lean management techniques as a coach and technical trainer. and Schlumberger. Make it Simple to Manage Business Or Close Deals.

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Technical Review Software Review Bertelsmann Technology 88

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits. They had a prominent NorCal investor already so I thought a SoCal lead would make sense – that I could help them in a more hands-on way. So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders.

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Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 333

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits. They had a prominent NorCal investor already so I thought a SoCal lead would make sense – that I could help them in a more hands-on way. So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders.

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Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 328

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.”

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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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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

Well, Los Angeles-based KarmaGoat (www.karmagoat.com) has figured out a way to help people get rid of those unwanted items they have--and provide those proceeds to charity. Our marketplace is organized like a used item marketplace, like Amazon or eBay, or Craiglist, in that a seller lists an item, picks a cause, and sets a price.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2012

I plan to write about it early next year when we’re all through. 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. We have a little more to go until the finish line.

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MAY 25, 2013

In the original version of his post, Andy writes. 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.

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DECEMBER 2, 2010

As a VC I’m acutely that a “yes&# decision to support an entrepreneur can do just that, yet I only write 2-4 of them per year and maybe another 3-4 as an angel. Being helpful doesn’t mean telling every person their ideas are great. I’m sure somebody helped you along the way – you can pay it forward.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

I finally got around to writing it having read Fred Wilson’s post about what a CEO does. Even three person organizations are political. I found that a lot of my time went into spending time with the country MD’s to show them that they were still important to me and that I was still willing to help with sales campaigns.

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AUGUST 15, 2009

It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits ;-). We helped the write out their requirements for a system. We met everybody in the organization. They hired a consultant to help them with the review. Write things down. We fought hard to stay in the game.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2014

You might not always care but it is important that you frame questions in a way that you feel won’t make the candidate feel bad about ultimately joining your organization. Plus, if she does have areas where we could coach her on improvement it would help to know that coming in.” You expected no less.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

We have a number of startups (or pre-startups) that we are helping get launched. You are writing about the essentials of business. I am planning right not to write a post about how startups often get SEO wrong. What are you working on now? We also represent a few larger companies with international issues. That's great.

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Startup SEO Pepperdine Blogging 150

socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

This morning, Knowledge Genie (www.myknowledgegenie.com) launched a new web site that helps experts and authors publish online information to the web. Instead of writing a book, we wanted to develop a platform to bring our methods to life, and scale our knowledge. It's anybody or any organization with a body of knowledge.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

I’ve started writing up some of those sales & marketing lessons and I plan to continue to build that section out over time. So I did want any rational person who wants to improve does – I hired a coach. there is a nascent industry to try and help you with this, too. They’re in beta).

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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. Do you do corporate retreats, coaching or even? In addition, we do in-house team, management and employee consulting/coaching. It’s transformational on all levels; we promise you’ll walk away with new perspective.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

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. In a world where we encourage people to help and seek help, it hinders that mindset when an individual’s actions discourages others to do so.

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