Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Most mentors don’t have the time to be your business coach to help you with generic skills. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 11/24/2016. The best mentors are not previous close friends or family, who may tell you only what you want to hear. Most of us need both friends and mentors, and the ability to tell the difference.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

And in thinking about where we wanted to place our 2016 internal resource investment dollars into we began to think about which services would have the highest impact on the three edges of this triangle and we recognized it was marketing. The reason that marketing resonated so much for us as a 2016 priority is: Portfolio.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2016

Use questions to coach and develop team members. The best leaders focus on coaching and mentoring people on decision making, rather than giving orders. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/09/2016. In trusted environments, failures are seen as learning experiments, rather than opportunities for punishment.

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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. It's really Match.com meets LinkedIn for your business. It's very much matching pieces into a puzzle.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2016

It’s tempting to believe that friends, family or eager newcomers can learn quickly with your coaching and training, but entrepreneurs often don’t realize that coaching new employees will double the leader’s workload at the worst possible time and will leave a critical position not fully filled for many months.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2016

For leaders, this is often evident in the willingness to be coached, by outside experts or by your own team. Marty Zwilling Published on IvyExec.com on 01/05/2016. Challenged by his contemporaries, Edison soberly responded: “I have not failed. I have just found ten thousand ways that won’t work.” Promote resilience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2016

Provide coaching and mentoring as well as training. Customer-centric founders have found that interactive coaching and mentoring by experienced peers is more effective and positive in keeping everyone up to speed on trends, competition, customer demands and technology. Formal training for the team is just the beginning, not the end.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2016

I started as a teenager, and I did babysitting, life guarding, and swim coaching. Becka Klauber Richter: We are really excited about our plans for expansion in 2016. What's your background, how did you start the company? Becka Klauber Richter: My background for my entire career has been in child care. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2016

Some coaches and leaders seem to have the magic for bringing out the best in everyone. Marty Zwilling Published on IvyExec.com on 01/20/2016. Every business wishes that all their employees were star performers, but wishing doesn’t make it happen. They will love it or leave it.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

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., In 2016, Rapid City was officially named ICPC 2017’s host city. ICPC World Finals 2017, held in Rapid City.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

One-on-one mentoring and coaching with 50+ mentors. Batch 2 will run from February 8th through June 11th, 2016 in Chatsworth, CA. Key benefits: 100% hardware-focused four month program. Up to $150,000 in investments per startup. Free office space + makerspace + manufacturing partnership. Industrial designer in residence.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2016

How much of your time is spent on futures, strategizing, and coaching versus fixing daily crises? Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 04/08/2016. Business leadership requires spending more time working on the business, and less time working in the business. Tackle new challenges outside your comfort zone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

Most begin by doing the product development, marketing and sales alone, but struggle making the transition to hiring and coaching others, defining repeatable processes and focusing on future strategy. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 04/29/2016. Not every entrepreneur needs to scale.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2017

If you want to improve your strength in this area, or need to coach your team along these lines, I recommend the following steps: Approach every problem as a positive business opportunity. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/16/2016. Yet I’m convinced that this trait can be learned by discipline and practice.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2016

Sign up for some career coaching and auditing. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 04/13/2016. It’s smart to visit the office before an interview, or talk informally to other employees to make sure you understand what is expected. T-shirts and beer are not the norm at every startup.

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Xconomy

JULY 29, 2016

Those were some of the topics of a question-and-answer panel held at Xconomy’s Robo Madness West 2016 conference last month. Will social robots be nothing more than robotic digital assistants like those on smartphones, or are there new opportunities and challenges when we put an AI brain into a robotic body?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2020

John Altobelli was coach of Orange Coast College's baseball team. The crash site where Bryant and the others crashed is within view of a cluster of business parks, which houses some of the high tech companies along the 101 corridor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2016

Since I’m not a life coach, I can’t comment on the broader implications, but in my role as advisor to many startups, I do often find myself recommending a focus on many of his key points, which I will paraphrase here: Think in terms of action. Marty Zwilling First published on Huffington Post on 10/07/2016.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2016

America in 2016 is no place for “dog whistle” politics and it’s time that more people say out loud, “Black Lives Matter” to make sure that the terrible people trying to undermine the movement don’t have air cover for continued vitriol, hatred and racism. Talk to any black person in the US and ask about their experiences with the police.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

he coached me and my 3 siblings in basketball and soccer and more. “i read your tweets tonight, mark. i am there with you. i grew up in the suburbs of cleveland, ohio and i was hopeful because my high school buddies who live there and are conservatives told me they could never vote for hillary, but they couldn’t vote for trump either.

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