Tech.Co

JUNE 29, 2021

You know what a startup is, right? Or at least you have an idea of what a startup is like to work in? That is, of course, until the small, ambitious startup is acquired by a larger, more traditional company in its sector, or the small startup goes public with angry shareholders and regulators asking difficult questions.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

Some businesses require very little capital and the founder can self-finance the enterprise and retain 100% of its ownership and control from ignition through liquidity event (startup through sale). Bootstrapping: This term describes your ability to start a business with little investment and grow it using internally generated funds.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2021

By definition, all of you entrepreneurs are leaders, by taking the initiative to start a new company. Yet I have learned over the years as a startup advisor that all business leaders are not the same. Create innovative change from existing resources. You generally don’t fix things by throwing them away and starting over.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2015

Every entrepreneur I know is short on resources, including time, money, and skills. 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. In the startup world, this is often seen as a lack of focus. Hire real help and learn to delegate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

In reality, business success and satisfaction is about doing the right things at the right time, which requires leadership and coaching. But coaching doesn’t always work the way you expect. Trevor is a veteran coach who has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs, organizations, and business families across the country.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2014

Moving from a company that had less resources (and presumably by the time their raising depleted resources) to a company with newfound resources can be telling. I have seen many companies raise their first $3 million and still act like a company that has no resources at all. Act your stage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Hopefully, between the two of us, more of you with big business dreams will follow the leads and generate more successful business results: Start by getting your hands dirty. A business entity has to be created and real resources applied. Never give up in the face of adversity. Ask for help from advisors and mentor your team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2021

This makes me wonder what starts that entrepreneurial drive in kids, and how early parents and schools should start teaching the basics. Another one is Kid Start-Up: How YOU Can Become an Entrepreneur , by Mark Cuban, Shaan Patel, and Ian McCue. Start a summer business. They assert, "It's never too early!

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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. We caught up with Fuel50 founder and CEO Anne Fulton to learn more about the startup. What is Fuel50?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2022

In my view, too many businesses fail, simply because founders give up too early. Starting many initiatives, and hoping that one will stick, is not a formula for success. Recognize limited resources. The ability to build a team, as well as the intelligence to ask for help, is a huge bit of luck.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2023

These haven’t changed much over the years, but still seem to be often overlooked by business professionals and leaders in their haste to keep up with peers, competitors, and customers in today’s volatile environment. The reality is that starting a business, as well is working an existing business, has always required perseverance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2022

In my experience as a business advisor, most organizations, large and small, struggle to keep up with the pace of change and competitive forces today. A question I often get is how to transform that overall team into a smooth-running machine that will keep up with the pace of market change, and competition in today’s world.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

So how does the statement above fit into this sandwich of alternatives? Trusted, close resources include sophisticated relatives, friends and business associates who know how to structure a deal as a win-win for you and for them, while allowing you to retain control over your vision and execution. Starting up Raising money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2022

In my many years of experience in large businesses as well as startups, a key lesson I have learned is that personal leadership is most often the differentiator between success and mediocrity or failure. He speaks from his own many years as an entrepreneur, executive coach, and keynote speaker. You need to be one of those leaders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2018

Every entrepreneur I know is short on resources, including time, money, and skills. 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. In the startup world, this is often seen as a lack of focus. Hire real help and learn to delegate.

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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

JANUARY 27, 2023

For example, I once had a business associate who loved to help his peers, which is a positive attribute, until he was unable to complete his own commitments on time, and his career was in jeopardy. Help others who have the potential for helping you. You must re-prioritize daily. Pick battles that have value in that context.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2020

One of the simplest questions I get from aspiring entrepreneurs, and ironically one of the hardest, is “How do I start?” I want to tell them to just start anywhere, but I realize that most have no idea where anywhere is. Help entrepreneurs with constant learning. Utilize business content curators and coaches.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

Fortunately, the Startup of the Year program aims to make it easier for founders to connect with resources. In 2006, a passion to help startups grew into Tech Cocktail , a company whose mission was to showcased burgeoning companies in bars around the country. BlackTech Week (Miami, FL).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2020

It seems like every entrepreneur I meet these days is quick to proclaim themselves a visionary, expecting that will give more credibility to their startup idea, and improve their odds with investors. In reality, I’m one of the majority of investors who believe that startup success is more about the execution than the idea.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

After many years working in business and investing in startups, I’m convinced that the primary reason for new business and career failures is NOT a lack of skill or money, but people giving up too quickly on their dreams and goals. He went on to start many successful companies, including General Electric.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 5, 2023

Many of you business professionals I meet in my business consulting and mentoring roles seem very determined to advance their career, or even start their own business. Most people find that the act of committing something to paper forces them to face the reality of getting started and measuring progress.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2023

In this context, I was impressed with the insights provided in a new book, “ Stay Sane In An Insane World ,” by peak performance coach Greg Harden. Allocate your time and resources to customer expectations and competitor challenges. Start with smaller opportunities, where if you were to fail, the loss would be less significant.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 30, 2021

Help people uncover and apply their strengths. Most people don’t recognize their own strengths, and need your help, as well as strength assessment tools, to capitalize on them. Help your team members eliminate uncalled-for or gratuitous emotions, caused by internal fears, and show compassion and support to get real engagement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2023

I found some good guidance with practical specifics to accomplish this new type of leadership in a recent book, “ Your Resource is Human ,” by Melissa Romo. I offer here my interpretation of her five key leadership behavior principles: Help team members find meaning with work. Start with ‘How are you?’

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Berkonomics

JUNE 29, 2017

If you have been following our recent insights, you’ll be up to speed knowing that professional investors negotiate tough terms, from provisions of control over asset acquisition, eventual sale of the company, future investments, forced co-sale when others attempt to sell their shares and more. Trust works both ways.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2021

This starts by hiring people with the right skills and training. Focus on providing clear instructions and coaching. Think back to when you were new in this area, and what would have helped you to get the job done quickly and effectively. Set completion times and milestones for follow-up. Don’t assume anything.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2022

The classic book, “ Hunting in a Farmer's World: Celebrating the Mind of an Entrepreneur ,” by serial entrepreneur and business coach John F. Dini, tied together several threads I have often seen in my own experience of mentoring and helping aspiring entrepreneurs. These are the ultimate hunters.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The smart ones get some extra support early on critical decisions, and work a bit harder on issues that are common startup killers. Here are a few: Surround yourself with help rather than helpers. Here are a few: Surround yourself with help rather than helpers. Learn how to delegate, seek outside help and balance your life.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2020

This week, Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures announced a brand new effort to provide health and wellness to the founders of companies it invests in, helping those founders with well being, mental health, stress management, coaching, and leadership development. It's a comprehensive bucket.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 28, 2010

I grew up in the US but lived in England for so long I can never remember from which country my slang comes. They wanted to be able to say to their senior person (who had hired Accenture in the first place) that they had been good corporate citizens but they had no real intention of actually helping me with me work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2023

As a result, these people often end up disheartened. In my experience, new startup businesses are initiated primarily by these standalone innovators, popularly called entrepreneurs. Your contribution can help a number of other personas overcome doubts and concern, and validate visions with real data.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2013

Also don’t confuse a business mentor with a business coach. A mentor’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 mentor helps the entrepreneur fill an experience gap, and a coach helps fill a skill gap.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Los Angeles-based Fuel50 , a startup developing career management and coaching tools, has raised $2.5M Fuel50's software is used within businesses to help their employees manage their career path. in a Series A funding, according to the company. The funding came from Rincon Venture Partners and Bonfire Ventures.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2016

It seems like every entrepreneur I meet these days is quick to proclaim themselves a visionary, expecting that will give more credibility to their startup idea, and improve their odds with investors. In reality, I’m one of the majority of investors who believe that startup success is more about the execution than the idea.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2010

For the first 5 years of my career I was a “bottom up&# thinker and worker. I know it might sound a bit esoteric so let me explain: I started my career as a programmer. I started by doing billing systems. This is bottom-up planning. He coached me that I had to start with the answers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2023

These authors bring a wealth of knowledge from their decades of practicing executive coaching and psychology, as well as business employment law, with real companies both before and during the transition. Help your team generate team rituals and encourage networking. Coaching – Practice active listening and feedback.

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