Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2015

I have personally used this approach in leading startups as well as large organizations, in highly technical roles as well as business development and marketing. For one-on-one coaching from the startup founder, I call this approach five-minute mentoring. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 4/17/2015.

Product

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2015

Businesses stopped hiring for lifetime commitments some time ago, as markets change so rapidly and companies need to tune their workforce for changing economic conditions. Simply defining yourself as a specialist or professional minimizes the stigma of a consultant role (think marketing specialist or staffing professional).

Services

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2015

The good news is that none of these need be mutually exclusive, according to recent studies of market trends. Be a coach, rather than a dictator. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 9/30/2015. This is real leadership, and requires constant communication, motivation, recognition and accountability.

Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2015

There is no rule that marketing needs to report to the founder, or that every startup needs a chief operating officer. Successful leaders are good coaches and mentors, as well as being on the lookout for personal learning opportunities. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 10/14/2015.

Entrepreneur

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

You can find a mentor, a coach, a project, or experience, to help you prepare for the role you are looking for. We were originally operating as a coaching company, and we built out this assessment technology for our own clients. The education around new products and bringing them to the market is the same in both markets.

Help

LATechDigest

MAY 22, 2016

I went through a really hard time; my divorce finalized last March 2015. She is a well respected, globally renowned intuitive counselor and coach to high-level Politicians and CEOs, who has been helping her clients all around the world since 2001 with a 99.99% success rate. It spawned from my personal story.

Coach

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2015

Yet the 2015 Office Romance Survey by Vault, Inc. in sociology, and a coach and speaker on work issues and friendship. Work relationships are in vogue, inside a company for collaboration and teamwork, and outside to customers and partners through social media for loyalty and interactive marketing. by Jan Yager, who is a Ph.D.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

A fixed mindset is when entrepreneurs believe their abilities and market are fixed, and the challenge is to make the best of the hand already dealt. Develop market insights and a growth vision far beyond today. Market change is opportunity. Replace “push” marketing with value-added “pull” marketing. Anyone can.

Startup

Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

In 2015, the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals were held in Marrakesh, Morocco. In 2016, the renowned international university programming tournament — attended by student competitors, coaches, and parents — took place in Phuket, Thailand. But longtime ICPC student coach Antonette Logar, Ph.D.,

Coach

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? And then in the late 90’s money crept in, swept in to town by public markets, instant wealth and an absurd sky-rocketing of valuations based on no reasonable metrics. What happened? People were building.

Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

So part of playing an effective coach is helping the team to see the answer for themselves. Fred has of course been a public mentor to us all with his market-defining terminology that he popularized including “freemium” and “mobile first.” You need to invest in good markets and bad.

Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

By 2011 the market had started to change dramatically. It was clear to us that LA was now a powerhouse market and we loved working with all of the other accelerators in town. None of us was convinced the market really needed 5 accelerators. We have some announcements set for 2015. Market stage is everything.

Venture Capital

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Helpers may be cheaper and quicker to find, but they cost you dearly in managing, coaching and error recovery. Do your homework to realistically size development, marketing and staffing requirements, and then increase the number by 50 percent. Start marketing before you have a product to sell. No proprietary content is death.

Startup