Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Helped merge company with Seedling – on track to do $20 million combined revenue in 2015 – will now become Chairman). Wonderful human being who is civically engaged, mother of 3, mentorer of younger founders, hard worker and arguer extraordinaire (so says her current Twitter bio).

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2023

Way back in 2015, the Kickstarter Pebble smartwatch raised $20.3 Board seats can’t be negotiated, and even informal mentoring in decision and governance processes is unlikely. This can hurt the company, and jeopardize all investors. In fact, the latest figures show that crowdfunding globally is expected to grow from USD 1.41

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Way back in 2015, the Kickstarter Pebble smartwatch raised $20.3 Board seats can’t be negotiated, and even informal mentoring in decision and governance processes is unlikely. This can hurt the company, and jeopardize all investors. Early crowdfunding successes have been undeniable. Risk is increased.

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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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InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2015

Good news: a quick review of TechCrunch’s March 2015 List of Top 20 U.S. Obtaining funding is a key milestone, but equally important is helping fledgling companies build institutional mass once they leave the relatively safe confines of an accelerator. Convert Graduate-Founders Into Mentors.

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Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

What you might not realize is that the adorable droid was the brain child of Sphero, a robotics and digital technology company and an alumni to the Disney Accelerator program. The BB-8 app-enabled Droid had such a global adoption among kids and adults that it was named the number one Star Wars toy of 2015.

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Tech.Co

JULY 19, 2017

“We have being working on the idea of ​​an accelerator since 2015,” Sonya says. Sonya Romanovsky, VP of Projects at the WelkerMedia Foundation, explained how the accelerator ties into Welkermedia’s core business. “The first step for us was the launch of the fund, which was supported by our partners and peers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2015

As a mentor to entrepreneurs, I often get asked what you can do to build the right culture. Mentoring and training programs need to be put in place early. Successful leaders are good coaches and mentors, as well as being on the lookout for personal learning opportunities. Define a legacy for yourself and your company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2015

Based on my experience as an investor and mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, one of the quickest ways to kill your credibility and your startup is to offer a poorly written business plan, or none at all. Marty Zwilling ** First published on Entrepreneur.com on 1/16/2015.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In addition to an Undergraduate Certificate, the Program is launching a Master of Technology Management degree in 2015. Lettuce - After taking orders on a homemade inventory app at a tradeshow, my former students realized that their app was generating more excitement than the company''s dog toys. Am I biased?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2015

The good news is that recent big company financial woes and layoffs have generated a flood of candidates with real experience seeking positions at startups. Too many entrepreneurs naively believe that candidates with lofty titles from a larger company can easily do the same job for their startups. This doesn’t work in a startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2015

In my perspective as an advisor and mentor to many entrepreneurs, there are a set of basic strategies that can be applied to every startup to dramatically improve the odds of success, no matter what the business domain. These measurements should be driven by your values and your company culture.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

We caught up with Helen, the co-founder and COO of JOANY, to learn more about the company. How did you start the company? Helen Lee: Christina and I started the company back in 2014. We had our Joan of Arc moment in Decembre of 2014, and therefore called the company JOANY. What's next now for the company?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Mentoring and technical assistance from volunteer or paid experts. If you don’t need these common resources, but need specialized technology services, you should look for technology parks and research facilities, often sponsored by leading companies in specific technologies, like Intel New Business Initiatives and Google Ventures.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2015

As an advisor and mentor to startups, I try to make sure entrepreneurs understand both the pros and cons of an IPO as an exit strategy. As a public company executive, your management style, and even your personal life, is subject to extensive scrutiny by stock analysts and stockholders. Doubling or more of overhead expenses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2015

Companies that have focused on sustainability and social responsibility, in addition to ethical business practices, such as Patagonia and Zappos , claim more than three times the return of average companies over the last 10 years. Manage your company based on long-term priorities. You must be the model of the culture you want.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2015

Keep your eyes on where the company is going, especially when nobody else does. Don’t forget to be a mentor as well as a leader. Marty Zwilling Published on IvyExec.com on 10/20/2015. Watch your use of personal pronouns. Build your people. Stand for something. How did you make your product manager shine in the last meeting?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2015

That fact eludes most executives from mature companies who have long depended on their staffs for real work, while their focus stays on strategy. Thus I don’t see many startups run in absentia or by big company executives. The founder needs to be a mentor and advisor, as well as a leader. Do you fit that mold?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Most accelerators provide small seed investment in the range of $25,000, as well as mentoring, workspace and professional services, in exchange for an equity stake in the company. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 9/25/2015. Startup incubator seed funding. Corporate seed funds for startups.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 12, 2016

On Monday, nine startups began a 16-week program at Canopy San Diego , a new accelerator program for seed-stage companies developing new technologies, products, and services to support the legal cannabis industry. And in fact, California surpassed France as the world’s sixth-largest economy, based on 2015 economic data.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

In his words, [in some instances] “because lots of capital is available, the company takes on the capital and that ends up resulting in no constraints on decision making and so the company decides to do five things in stead of just one.” You are defined by how you serve the companies that are struggling.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

View the Slideshow A little more than a year ago, amid a resurgence in San Diego’s software sector, Xconomy identified a baker’s dozen of local tech companies to watch in 2016. The idea was to feature early stage companies in the region that have not attracted much attention or raised a substantial amount of startup capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2016

In fact, the latest figures show that crowdfunding has already grown to over $30 billion in 2015, exceeding the amounts contributed by either angel groups or VCs alone. In 2015, the new Kickstarter Pebble smartwatch raised $20.3 This can hurt the company, and jeopardize all investors. million held by the Coolest Cooler.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Now you can match a big company with worldwide reach for a few thousand dollars. Here are some of the key new rules I have learned by starting my own company, investing as an angel in other startups and mentoring many more new entrepreneurs over the last few years: Do incorporate a company, but keep it simple.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Yet as I mentor entrepreneurs around the country, it still seems to be one of the least understood approaches to startup funding, with more myths than accredited angels and professional venture capital investors combined. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 2/13/2015. Product pre-order model.

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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. We have some announcements set for 2015.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

I admit that I haven’t yet read it but I’ve had numerous discussions with Brad over the years about board structure & conduct and consider him a mentor on the topic. When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. In the Early Days.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 24, 2018

Being one small company amongst the sea of thousands of startups vying for customers, capital, and talent, the way to get noticed above the crowd, connect with that next big partner, and raise some capital is to throw your hat in the ring to compete at Startup of the Year. A Strong Alumni Network.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2016

I built my own company around marketing services, and have been around business development, marketing, custom service, and sales, and also on the consumer side of technology, a little bit a mix of the two. Barry was a lead mentor there at Chapman University's Launch Labs, and we paired up. That's how Barry came in.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2015

Mark Suster (@msuster) July 19, 2015. Every $10 million financing only puts more pressure on the founders to figure out how to hit the metrics to get to the next milestone and every company that raises $25 million puts a ton of pressure on their 10 competitors who haven’t. Advisors / Coaches / Mentors.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

If you're an employee in a big company, sometimes it can feel like you're not sure when your career is going. You can find a mentor, a coach, a project, or experience, to help you prepare for the role you are looking for. How did you start the company? Los Angeles-based Fuel50 (www.fuel50.com) What were you doing before Fuel50?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2015

For example, hydrogen-fueled engines were invented over a century ago, with a continuing promise of breathing air and exhaling pure water vapor and having over 200 companies active in the hydrogen sector today. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 12/16/2015.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Northwest Arkansas is home to Fortune 500 companies including Walmart, Tyson Foods and J.B. I came on full-time with Startup Junkie in 2015, and haven’t looked back! We hosted over 1,200 people, and highlighted 50 companies at 12 different stops. What makes northwest Arkansas an ideal place to start a company?

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 21, 2015

Hundreds of founders, speakers, mentors, and students flocked to the University of Southern California on March 28 th , 2015 to be inspired by female entrepreneurs. And I am not talking about starting a technology company. We did have over 500 registered for the event, and more than 60 speakers, mentors and judges.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2015

A few innovative companies, including the financial advice company The Motley Fool , are so convinced that collaboration is the key to their competitive advantage that they have added the role of “ chief collaboration officer ,” in the person of Todd Etter. Marty Zwilling Published on TheModernTeam on 11/05/2015.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 3, 2015

Scott Belsky (@scottbelsky) April 29, 2015. I went as far as to call it the best Tweet of 2015 so far because it encapsulated my advice so succinctly. A company presents. If it’s such an obvious deal then won’t 10 other companies being doing this? conviction > consensus. The same is true at startups.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 3, 2015

Almost all credited their spouse, or a mentor, in helping them achieve their success. Many upper-level professionals sniffed out the dishonest business dealings of the company I was working for and declined the offering immediately which was a relief to know not all women are as gullible as might be believed.

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