Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2023

I always struggle with coaching along these lines, so I was pleased to see some excellent guidance on tactics in making decisions in a new book, “ The Leap To Leader ,” by Adam Bryant. Being prescriptive can help people get to the right outcome faster. In all cases, eliminate the emotional element in a business decision.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2022

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. Your role is to provide this enablement, through listening to their needs, and providing personal coaching and mentoring as required.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2017

We all know some peers in business who could use some coaching to unleash their potential and optimize performance, but would you know how to do the job if they asked you for help? In an effort to help myself, I read a new book on this topic, “ The Master Coach ,” by Gregg Thompson. Self-centered members need coaching.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2021

Los Angeles-based Ultrahuman, a startup developing an app focused on meditation, workouts, and sleep, said Wednesday that it has launched its first product, backed by $8M in funding. The company says the $8M, Series A funding round came from Nexus and Blume. The company's service runs on iOS and Android devices.

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socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2013

That''s what Los Angeles-based FieldLevel (www.fieldlevel.com) has been working on, making it easier for coaches to network and exchange information on athletes. Brenton Sullivan: What we are is a private social network and platform for coaches to connect with each other, to exchange information on athletes. What is that process?

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socalTECH

JULY 22, 2021

Sketchy's service offers up animated videos to help students better retain complex information, and initially got its start helping medical students prepare for their board exams; the company is now extending beyond its content for medical school students.

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Berkonomics

MAY 13, 2021

The longer it takes to produce and release a product, the more fixed overhead is consumed, and the runway of remaining cash diminishes. Expert help and good planning can reduce the time to market, saving cash in the process. Getting to product release: process insights. Time as a corporate asset.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

com) � backed by local investors Rincon Venture Partners and Bonfire Ventures�is helping to solve that problem, with its career pathing software designed for helping employees at large enterprises figure out what's next. It helps you figure out what you can do in a business, what roles are available, what might be my future here.

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socalTECH

MAY 4, 2021

Kajabi says it is profitable, and will use the funding to scale its team and build out its products, expand internationally, and explore strategic mergers and acquisitions. Scott Wagner of Tidemark will join the company's board with the funding; Wagner is the former CEO of GoDaddy. Kajabi's CEO and co-founder is Kenny Rueter.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2019

Don’t you wish you were better at saying “no” to all those extraneous requests for a bit of help at work? For example, as a software executive, I once had a talented engineer working for me who was always helping others, to the extent that he consistently missed his own project deadlines, and was ruining his health through lack of sleep.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2021

However, I’m convinced that you can mitigate many of these anxieties by your actions, so I was pleased to see similar insights in a new book, “ Anxiety at Work: 8 Strategies to Help Teams Build Resilience, Handle Uncertainty, and Get Stuff Done.” Don’t be afraid to deliver fair, tough coaching. Listen first.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

The programs--which does not charge fees or take equity from companies in its program--says it is seeking nine early stage startups to take part in its eight-week program, designed to help early stage startups. Startup Boost Los Angeles says its program includes six weekly workshop sessions and one demo night hosted by Google, in Venice.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 23, 2019

We bring a doctor, a therapy and a coach,” says Bruno of the new service he’s launching. The founding team at Path, which includes Bruno and Gabriel Diop, who heads partnerships, and Greg Moore, who leads product development, all think of substance abuse treatment as an access issue.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Costa Mesa-based Givsum , which develops online software to help charitable organizations with their operations and fundraising, says it has received both new funding, as well as support, from two accelerators. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2021

Some are great product leaders and innovative technologists, others are leaders in creating new business models , a few can assemble great teams , but only the rare exception can do all three. That means accepting coaching and seeking mentoring, as well as giving it. For example, a couple of years ago, Starbucks' CEO Kevin R.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 30, 2021

Based on my own long experience in business, team satisfaction, engagement, and productivity continues to be a challenge. That’s a huge opportunity for productivity in your business, as well as your team well-being. That’s a huge opportunity for productivity in your business, as well as your team well-being.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2015

In building successful businesses, I find that creating a new and innovative product or service is usually the easy part. Works with other team members on mutual aspirations (coach metaphor). Think about who could help you reflect-on-action. Evolve from guru to guide, and coaching others to find answers for themselves.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2022

Phrases like “holding people accountable” imply negative consequences or punishment, rather than rewards or providing the freedom and coaching to team members to choose their own actions, and pursue what matters most to them. It’s up to you to build that relationship by listening to their needs and concerns, and offering help where you can.

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socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2019

The Lytx system involves videos cameras and other sensors, with "positive, constructive feedback" and coaching to help change driver behaviors in the eye of safety. Lytx says it incorporates machine vision and artificial intelligence technology into its products for improving driver safety. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

There is always the next generation of workers coming of age who expect more, as well as the current generation already having the lowest engagement and productivity levels that business has ever seen. Spend more time mentoring and coaching your team. Giving orders and assignments is not coaching.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2022

In building successful businesses, I find that creating a new and innovative product or service is usually the easy part. Works with other team members on mutual aspirations (coach metaphor). Think about who could help you reflect-on-action. Evolve from guru to guide, and coaching others to find answers for themselves.

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socalTECH

JUNE 24, 2016

San Diego-based Reflexion Health , a provider of cloud-based, digital medicine products, said this week that it has raised $18 in a Series B funding round. The startup, led by Joseph Smith, MD, PhD, develops VERA, a software product which is aimed at the physical therapy market. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2022

I enjoyed her recommendations and real-life stories as well as her self-coaching advice, which I will paraphrase here, combined with my own insights from the field: Take a hard look in the mirror to see yourself today. It may help to review the evidence that emotionally strong leaders have a consistent advantage in business.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2019

With Startup Boost, we had dozens of investors, service providers, successful entrepreneurs, and major industry leaders (including Microsoft, Google, Softbank, REME, and TechStars) coalesce around our initiative to help early stage companies get to the next level. Yet they turned-out each and every week of our six-week programs.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women have made great inroads into the tech world in recent years, but there remains a long way to go before we reach a truly equitable state of affairs in workforce numbers, remuneration and product development. The financing will be used to help students finance their Entity Academy tuition, which typically costs $15,000.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Often, it helps to use storytelling to make the message more memorable, or allow others to relate your and their needs. It has to start with people understanding your vision and values, seeing through your actions that you are committed to the same, and transparently asking them to help get you there.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2021

The very best mentors are the most interested in helping someone who is willing to learn and grow quickly. Remember the difference between a mentor, a friend, and a coach. A business coach is focused on helping you with generic skills, whereas a mentor’s aim is to teach you based on specific situations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2023

How will work productivity and quality be impacted, and what effect will it have on personal careers, job satisfaction, and work-life balance? In my experience, a great office culture will enhance every team member productivity, as well as personal satisfaction. Help your team generate team rituals and encourage networking.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

In 2019, the company came out with its first product, Kelp Jerky, which comes in four flavors, and was a product Boyd Myers thought would be a good trial run to help people see ocean-farmed kelp in a new way. We went back to the drawing board during the pandemic on a new product and invented The Kelp Burger.”.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

Certainly, bootstrapping is a preferred method of funding growth if it does not hold back the speed of growth or hobble the quality of product or service to the extent that better-funded competitors can overtake the business. There is a lot to say about retaining control. The post Need money? first appeared on BERKONOMICS.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Sure, we built SaaS products before the term even existed but at 31 it was hard to delineate reality from what all of the monied people around us were telling us what we were worth. In those years I learned to properly build product, price products, sell products and serve customers. Until we weren’t.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Yet there is more and more evidence that jumping tasks on every alert for a new email, text, or phone call actually decreases overall productivity. Practicing these will ensure greater productivity, less stress, more job satisfaction, and an improved overall sense of well-being. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2017

Leaders who are able to optimize these find multipliers of 20 percent up to nine times the average productivity. Organizational silos, limited spans of control, and too many layers of management can dramatically reduce the productivity of even your best people. Help make the difference makers even more effective.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2023

I believe that a fully engaged team is the key to both productivity and agility in the face of change. Wisdom helps everyone tackle the challenges in business and in life, helping us to understand our limitations, strengths, and weaknesses and make better choices. Enhance capability by helping others grow.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

These challenges, with recommendations for addressing them, were detailed nicely for me in the classic book, “ The Boomerang Principle ,” by Lee Caraher, who has built several companies, and has helped many others manage Millennials, reduce turnover, and improve satisfaction and the return hire rate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2021

The last thing they can afford is to waste any of these, but in my mentoring and coaching activities, I see it happening all too often. Much has been written about this subject in the world of manufacturing, stemming primarily from the 1990’s work by Taiichi Ohno, called the Toyota Production System (“Lean”). Lack of communication.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2021

I have always assumed that strong work relationships are the key to productivity, as well as you feeling good and having fun at work. Longer work hours mean greater productivity. In addition, recent research indicates that maximum productivity is a paradox. That slack won't just help you stay sane.

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