Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Nearly every startup I have spoken to over the years – including some where I’m a co-investor – talks positively about the support they’ve gotten from A16Z. As a starting point you have to realize that investment firms (which a VC is) have management needs.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

A great opportunity for any early stage hardware startup. Make in LA makes hardware less hard, working with 5 promising start-ups at a time. Perks include office space, prototype lab, production facilities, mentoring, and investments up to $150,000 in the first 4 months. Up to $150,000 in investments per startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2016

The best startups give everyone business cards and encourage team members to talk about the business with anyone who should be interested. A single marketing coordinator can accelerate your efforts by being the coach and mentoring key members of the team on soft marketing. Empower engagement.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2016

Becka Klauber Richter is co-founder of the startup, and spoke to us about the company, which she co-founded with Kasey Edwards. What's your background, how did you start the company? I started as a teenager, and I did babysitting, life guarding, and swim coaching. What is Helpr? READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2016

Today is the new age of the entrepreneur, and I see an increasing number of new startups as the economy stabilizes. For new aspiring entrepreneurs, that’s the good news and the bad news, as it increases opportunities, but also increases the startup risk. Extend network through startup organizations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2016

If you can’t provide a memorable customer experience, your startup won’t survive very long these days. Here are some key ideas to get you started: It all starts with the right people on your team. Many startup founders are great at putting out fires at the expense of urgent customer priorities.

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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. There is no shame in getting knocked down; it’s getting back up that matters. In a startup, pivots and problems will happen. Great businesses these days start with innovation. Promote resilience. Drive innovation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Starting a new business is tough, and the last thing you need is to suffer the same mistakes that have killed businesses like yours before you. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2016

A question I often get asked as an advisor to startups is how to recognize and attract the best people to grow the business. First, you need to carefully define and advertise your requirements in terms as specific as possible to your startup. Follow-up personally with the candidate to close the deal. Good communication skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2016

Maybe it’s for this reason that as professionals advance in their career, they tend to start asking fewer questions and providing more answers. This question-based leadership approach starts with humility and a firm belief in the old adage, “There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

Good entrepreneurs are all about managing change, but too many forget that they have to change themselves as their dream evolves from a startup to a scalable business. For example, there once was a social network called Friendster , often credited with starting the social networking boom way back in 2002. It’s a big change.

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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. It’s up to you to give the tough feedback , without emotion, while keeping it in context. Marty Zwilling Published on IvyExec.com on 01/20/2016. You will need to be inspiring and connect the dots to show the benefits of new abilities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2016

Committees don’t create successful startups. 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. He or she needs the multiplier of growing from the “doer” to a team builder and leader.

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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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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. Clearly assign solution implementation and follow-up. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/16/2016. Initiate action.

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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. The systems we have today are a far cry from that level of intelligence, and we need to start modeling and programming them with ethics and rational cognition now.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2016

In a startup, any decision is better than no decision. 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.

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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. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2016

Having grown up in the US but having lived in Europe for more than a decade gives me a unique perspective to know this problem is more pronounced in America and we have a responsibility to continue to chip away at the problem. How can we as a community not speak up? After Eric Garner? Trayvon Martin? Freddie Gray? Alton Sterling?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

It’s from a startup founder. 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. he coached me and my 3 siblings in basketball and soccer and more. It’s unedited. “i

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