Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2019

How do you know if you should be running your own company, or concentrating on that queue of work that someone else has built for you? Most believe they can do the job better than anyone else and will strive for maximum responsibility and accountability. My job is fun when everyone knows and does their job.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Both ends of this spectrum fail to bring long-term satisfaction or success. Patagonia , a successful outdoor products company, combines building safe high-quality products with philanthropic efforts to help the environment. To find new work you love, it helps to do job shadowing or short term rotation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

I often wonder how to get more people to think like Steve Jobs , Elon Musk, and a few others, who not only dream the big dreams, but can translate them and focus on results. On the other end of the spectrum, entrepreneurs are quick to propose one more feature that they can do easily.

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StartUp Beat

JANUARY 24, 2018

They make great employees, in other words, says Thornton – the co-founder of Coding Autism, a professional coaching and training company for adults on the autism spectrum. As she told technical.ly, Rosenberg discovered in her son an interest for technology that she’s since found many other youth on the spectrum share.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2022

According to Gallup’s often quoted global engagement survey , only 21 percent of workers are now fully engaged in their job, which is hugely expensive in productivity. Most companies I know will claim to be busy collecting and analyzing data, but very few actually use it to drive people management. Where are you along this spectrum?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2019

To me, that means treating your career more like a business than a job – with a continual and global focus on keeping up with competition, finding customers, preparing for changes ahead, and taking responsibility for your own finances. Build your reputation and visibility beyond your company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

One of the prices that you pay for being a CEO is giving up a lot of the social relationships within the company. You cannot compromise what is right for the company just to be liked. Even if you cannot quit this instant, you can at least start looking for a new job. Cope with the “lonely at the top” syndrome. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2018

Another 50 percent are “job renters,” bringing only their hands, but not their hearts to work. I was impressed to see some real guidance on this subject in a new book, “ Counter Mentor Leadership ”, by Kelly and Robby Riggs, a father-son coaching team that spans the age spectrum. No commitment is a big job performance problem.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Since Bill Hewlett joined with Dave Packard in 1939 to create what is today one of the world’s largest computer companies, there has been an evergreen debate as to who is more important in starting a tech company: the techie or the business guy? Steve Jobs or Steve Wozniak? Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2017

We sat down with Deborah to hear more about the app, why millenials and other youth are having such a hard time figuring out a career, and the company's solution. Deborah Ramo: The group of us who started the company are all very interested in solving problems. What is your app all about? How did this start?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2019

With real-time online reviews and feedback via the Internet, and instant relationships via social media, a voice from the top that is inconsistent with what is heard from the firing line defines a dysfunctional and noncompetitive company for today’s customer. Cultural fit matters more than job history or functional skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2015

How do you know if you should be running your own company, or concentrating on that queue of work that someone else has built for you? Most believe they can do the job better than anyone else and will strive for maximum responsibility and accountability. My job is fun when everyone knows and does their job.”

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socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2019

Minnie Ingersoll: A few things, but most recently I started by own company, in 2013. My job was hiring people. Sometimes what I say, is if brand is your moat, and you're a direct-to-consumer company, versus where you really have some technology, and you have some IP, that's the side of the spectrum we play on.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

I have long advised startup companies that if you don’t control your messaging somebody else will and your potential customers will form impressions of you shaped by somebody else or by nobody at all. Yet as obvious as it is to create messaging for your company, many people don’t consider their personal brands.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2019

This is the platitude of an obsolete corporate culture where you had to “pay your dues” in menial jobs before adding creativity or making decisions. Old management models encourage employees to optimize their own task, often at the expense of the overall company objectives. Employees will lose focus on their work.” Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

How do you know if you should be running your own company, or concentrating on that queue of work that someone else has built for you? Most believe they can do the job better than anyone else and will strive for maximum responsibility and accountability. My job is fun when everyone knows and does their job.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

How do you know if you should be running your own company, or concentrating on that queue of work that someone else has built for you? Most believe they can do the job better than anyone else and will strive for maximum responsibility and accountability. My job is fun when everyone knows and does their job.”

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socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2013

Last week, Carpinteria-based Lynda.com announced one of the biggest investments in the region in the last few years--a $103M, growth equity investment in the company, which came from Accel Partners and Spectrum Equity. Eric Robison: The company grown last year to exceed $100M in topline revenue. Tell us a bit on the investment?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2013

Last week, Carpinteria-based Lynda.com announced one of the biggest investments in the region in the last few years--a $103M, growth equity investment in the company, which came from Accel Partners and Spectrum Equity. Eric Robison: The company grown last year to exceed $100M in topline revenue. Tell us a bit on the investment?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2012

How do you know if you should be running your own company, or concentrating on that queue of work that someone else has built for you? Most believe they can do the job better than anyone else and will strive for maximum responsibility and accountability. My job is fun when everyone knows and does their job.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

According to Gallup’s often quoted global engagement survey , only 13 percent of workers are now fully engaged in their job, which is hugely expensive in productivity. Most companies I know will claim to be busy collecting and analyzing data, but very few actually use it to drive people management. Where are you along this spectrum?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

In the education, my experience as an angel investor in impact investing allows me to demystify the language, help explain where impact investments fall within the spectrum of investments, and give women in the program the lay of the land, so they can then go out and make use of the tools and make their own investments on their own.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Most people think that being a successful investor is about finding the right deals and nurturing the teams through the difficult times to come out with a great company. He’s bound to be able to help a company or two at the time of a sale. I wonder what this company would look like in 2010 as an independent?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

With real-time online reviews and feedback via the Internet, and instant relationships via social media, a voice from the top that is inconsistent with what is heard from the firing line defines a dysfunctional and noncompetitive company for today’s customer. Cultural fit matters more than job history or functional skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2011

How do you know if you should be running your own company, or concentrating on that queue of work that someone else has built for you? Most believe they can do the job better than anyone else and will strive for maximum responsibility and accountability. My job is fun when everyone knows and does their job.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2019

In fact, you may feel on the opposite end of the spectrum, more focused on delivering the perfect solution and managing the finances to grow the business. Here are the key steps I have found to work from my own experience in large companies, as well as startups: Practice showing some passion in every conversation.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

Companies were getting funded more easily and many more companies were actually being created. You can see Zach James & Rich Raddon who are standing next to a demo table pitching a small, yet-to-be-funded company called MovieClips – now the powerhouse ZEFR. By 2011 the market had started to change dramatically.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2017

This is the platitude of an obsolete corporate culture where you had to “pay your dues” in menial jobs before adding creativity or making decisions. Old management models encourage employees to optimize their own task, often at the expense of the overall company objectives. Employees will lose focus on their work.” Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2014

This is the platitude of an obsolete corporate culture where you had to “pay your dues” in menial jobs before adding creativity or making decisions. Old management models encourage employees to optimize their own task, often at the expense of the overall company objectives. Employees will lose focus on their work.” Marty Zwilling.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 8, 2016

The reasons companies elect to sell exclusively offline differ, but they often center on managing channel conflict with their retail partners. In addition to the Z Supply brand, which offers comfortable fashion basics, the company has created Black Swan , Others Follow , Rag Poets and White Crow. John Knits.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

Lower costs to start a business (95% reduction), many more companies created & funded by angels / seed. And as long as private-market capital is available these companies would rather remain private for longer before going public. We all have one-click purchase power (Apple, Google, Amazon, eBay). more than 5 years ago?—?and

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2013

Most young people fresh out of college don’t have children and spouses to support, so they can put real focus into launching a company. Those who are young at heart feel the same passion, and can even use their experience to do the same job with less energy. But it’s never too late for some to be young, be crazy, and launch a company.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Each VC has their own take on which services to provide and mostly they’re free but some smaller VCs charge portfolio companies for use of these services but usually at a cheap cost. Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

This is the platitude of an obsolete corporate culture where you had to “pay your dues” in menial jobs before adding creativity or making decisions. Old management models encourage employees to optimize their own task, often at the expense of the overall company objectives. Employees will lose focus on their work.” Marty Zwilling.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

Billy took the day job of hauling cargo out to the anchored ship. Ultimately Billy quit his night job and became a legitimate businessman hauling cargo out and back from ships that could not tie-up at the busy docks. Start-ups are truly in the risk-reward spectrum. Gut check time. It’s a mentality. You need to work smart.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

Billy took the day job of hauling cargo out to the anchored ship. Ultimately Billy quit his night job and became a legitimate businessman hauling cargo out and back from ships that could not tie-up at the busy docks. Start-ups are truly in the risk-reward spectrum. Gut check time. It’s a mentality. You need to work smart.

Startup 100

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

One of the prices that you pay for being a CEO is giving up a lot of the social relationships within the company. You cannot compromise what is right for the company just to be liked. Even if you cannot quit this instant, you can at least start looking for a new job. Cope with the “lonely at the top” syndrome. Marty Zwilling.

Startup 102

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