socalTECH

MAY 8, 2017

Belinda Tan: My co-founder, Noah Craft and I, were actually both physician-scientists, and both trained here in Southern California. We met many years ago when we both went to UCLA's Medical Scientist training program, a national program that trains MD-PhDs. Even in clinical care, we collaborated quite early on a project.

Technology 133

Technology Study UCLA Research 133

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2012

A while back, I wrote about the value of Michael Porter’s Five Forces framework for analyzing the competitive environment, and using every opportunity to highlight and emphasize your relative advantages, whether they be price, features, or bargaining power. Train every employee to be a customer service champion.

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Customer Custom Startup Organization 104

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2014

In both cases, it’s easy for them to become frustrated and give up, since most have never been trained in change management, and don’t even know what questions to ask. A good plan is a written one, approved by all key players, which maps out all activities and provides a framework for leaders and team members to follow.

Startup 108

Startup Resource Metrics Technical Review 108

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2015

Fortunately, basic leadership and entrepreneurial skills can be acquired from experience and training. The world is full of high-achievers and high expectations, but without the proper framework for turning entrepreneurial determination into real leadership accomplishment, you risk going nowhere.

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Entrepreneur Ideas Framework Tips 103

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2018

Fortunately, basic leadership and entrepreneurial skills can be acquired from experience and training. The world is full of high-achievers and high expectations, but without the proper framework for turning entrepreneurial determination into real leadership accomplishment, you risk going nowhere.

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Ideas Entrepreneur Framework Tips 66

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2014

Fortunately, basic leadership and entrepreneurial skills can be acquired from experience and training. The world is full of high-achievers and high expectations, but without the proper framework for turning entrepreneurial determination into real leadership accomplishment, you risk going nowhere.

Entrepreneur 111

Entrepreneur Ideas Framework Tips 111

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2013

In both cases, it’s easy for them to become frustrated and give up, since most have never been trained in change management, and don’t even know what questions to ask. A good plan is a written one, approved by all key players, which maps out all activities and provides a framework for leaders and team members to follow.

Startup 101

Startup Resource Metrics Technical Review 101

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2017

This means revisiting your human relations (HR) practices and procedures – training, promotion, job assignments, and compensation, with difference makers in mind. Use your high-level principles to establish behavioral frameworks to guide ways of working, rather than a scorecard enforced by culture vigilantes.

Product 58

Product Startup Guide Framework 58

socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2020

I ended up going to Lockheed Martin as Chief Innovation Officer, doing AR and VR work, creating a virtual framework used for training by the defense department. At the time, Alan was a Senior Fellow at HP Labs when we first demonstrated Croquet, chowing complex interactive worlds.

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Platform Startup Examples Web 168

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Instead, set long-term business objectives and develop a framework for the trajectory your team needs to get there. The fun part of supervising is not giving orders and instructions, but mentoring performance and training team members for the next level. Balance the long-term with the short.

Startup 103

Startup Entrepreneur Template Mentor 103

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2009

So I thought I’d try to lay out a framework for how you should think about it as many you will inevitably be faced with this experience. The other strategic was a train wreck. So if you get good feedback just make sure that you understand the framework above to think about how to best mitigate your risks.

Venture Capital 279

Venture Capital Startup Entrepreneur Framework 279

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Kevin built a lot of our internal processes at Upfront including our associate training program to make sure the future associates that we onboard have the tools and leverage of our combined learnings. Kevin is soft-spoken but always supported by facts. He doesn’t feel the need to always speak first but when he weighs in he is respected.

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Venture Capital Startup Invest Course 150

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2012

Instead, set long-term business objectives and develop a framework for the trajectory your team needs to get there. The fun part of supervising is not giving orders and instructions, but mentoring performance and training team members for the next level. Balance the long-term with the short.

Entrepreneur 94

Entrepreneur Startup Template Mentor 94

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2019

Nokia owned Heremaps at the time, and we had a couple of other people working on contextual content and imaging, and we were able to adapt to augmented reality some ideas we had had with Dreamworks Imagination, and their movie, How To Train Your Dragon 2. That's the hard part. You have to fuse together lots of data sources to get there.

Artificial Inteligence 113

Artificial Inteligence Startup Commerce Platform 113

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Build meticulous plans, recruit top notch employees with high potential, invest into appropriate training, and always verify that the quality of execution is to your liking. Sometimes a large disruption within the company framework can be just the thing to propel a business forward and drive innovation.”. Alon Rajic, Finofin LTD.

Entrepreneur 40

Entrepreneur Startup Framework Ideas 40

Xconomy

JULY 29, 2016

The ACTUV (Anti-submarine warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel) program has delivered an unmanned ship that can not only comply with the complex Rules of the Road in the open ocean, but simultaneously track and harass a manned submarine, keeping a step ahead of a highly trained human submarine captain.

Artificial Inteligence 40

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

For example, we’re seeing signs now of algorithms that are trained with data that might have hidden biases in it, and that then, in their whole pipeline, produce biased classifications or analysis or recognitions,” he says. He does see the opportunity for some broadly applicable frameworks though.

Artificial Inteligence 40

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Technical Advisors Research 40

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

Despite the importance of creativity, there seems to be almost no focus on teaching it, encouraging it, training at it & incorporating it into our daily routines. The creative process - Whenever I need to do any task that requires insight I have to be able to visualize – to literally SEE the decision framework.

Writing 356

Writing Startup Ideas Summary 356

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

My goal is to lay out a basic framework for anybody unsure whom to listen to as a way of helping you think about a way to orient your own views. Terrorism at scale can only occur when these organizations can move money around to finance people who make bombs, buy guns, train recruits and so forth.

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Course Startup Framework Marketing 280