Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 11, 2022
I was in it for the love of working with entrepreneurs on business problems and marveling at technology they had built. I had realized that I didn’t have it within me to be as good of a player as many of them did but I had the skills to help as mentor, coach, friend, sparing partner and patient capital provider.
TechCrunch LA
MAY 29, 2019
Eric P: You have a fascinating background as a serial entrepreneur while you were a teenager. We were focused on internet infrastructure – this is 2015-ish – and I was appointed to lead our strategy in esports. Below is the transcript of our conversation (edited for length and clarity) : Founding PlayVS. Delane P. :
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Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 3, 2015
Most entrepreneurs feel they have innate leadership talents, but struggle with how to nurture these abilities and measure their effectiveness. Authentic entrepreneurs lead through the power of personal influence, rather than coercion. Coaching and mentoring are key to the leadership role. People ignored see no leadership.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 10, 2015
Most entrepreneurs I know want to do the right thing for their businesses, as well as themselves, but they are not always sure what that means. By demand, entrepreneurs are crisis managers, and can be busy reacting 24 hours a day to urgent short-term issues. Be a coach, rather than a dictator.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 23, 2015
If an entrepreneur can’t build a culture of excitement and commitment at a startup, the chances of long-term success are negligible. As a mentor to entrepreneurs, I often get asked what you can do to build the right culture. Entrepreneurs who are too busy for people never get the culture they envision. Every investor knows this.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 27, 2015
by Erica Peitler, a well-known leadership performance coach. Here are the key principles she espouses, extended to leadership teams, based on my own background and mentoring new entrepreneurs: Learn to trust yourself and your team. This is an important step in self-coaching, and in coaching others on the team.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 27, 2015
If you are like most entrepreneurs I know, there just aren’t enough hours in a day to get all your own work done, as well as run the many one-hour meetings each team member seems to demand for decisions and mentoring. For one-on-one coaching from the startup founder, I call this approach five-minute mentoring.
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