Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Perks include office space, prototype lab, production facilities, mentoring, and investments up to $150,000 in the first 4 months. They are just over the halfway mark with their current class and have been continuously improving their program to increase the value for their entrepreneurs, their products and their business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2016

One of the most important skills for every entrepreneur is timely and effective decision making. The best entrepreneurs relish this role, while others struggle mightily and ultimately lose their health and their company. Your job as entrepreneur or executive does not end with picking a solution.

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LATechDigest

MAY 13, 2016

Each mentor spoke for nearly an hour to the entire group, answered questions, and sat with each company for one-on-one mentoring. Trakfire : a platform that enables its community to curate the best music from emerging artists, the third company founded founded by 19 year old USC Iovine Young Academy sophomore Arjun Mehta.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2016

In my own experience as a startup advisor and mentor, I find that entrepreneurs who can’t attract and maintain a highly motivated team rarely even get off the ground. Investors have long agreed that you invest in the team, more than the product. Good hiring, training, and mentoring are the best motivators. Start today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2016

I heard it again yesterday from a technical entrepreneur who should know better than to believe the old “ Field of Dreams ” sports fantasy movie theme in today’s Internet information overload environment. A single marketing coordinator can accelerate your efforts by being the coach and mentoring key members of the team on soft marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2016

I find that this type offers the most value to new entrepreneurs or startups in the early idea stage. Here are some of the key parameters that will help you decide where you fit in this spectrum: Your commitment to the entrepreneur lifestyle. Direction, mentoring and resources required.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2016

Aspiring entrepreneurs who struggle in a corporate environment often can’t wait to start their own company, only to find that relationships are even more critical and volatile there. The message here is not to use the public personas of leaders and entrepreneurs as the model for building and maintaining your business relationships.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2016

Startups provide business leadership with new products, services, and new revenue models, but leadership startups can only be built by entrepreneurs who are leaders themselves, and incent leadership in the team around them. Mentor a permission mentality. Marty Zwilling Published on IvyExec.com on 01/12/2016.

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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. A large bank started using us, with 18,000 employees in Australia, and the next thing we new we were delivering the product to the the U.S. I can't help myself in being an entrepreneur. This is like my fifth business.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

met Alex Isold at Techstars, he took a look at our product, and had all kinds of feedback, which was awesome. He provided all kinds of feedback from a product standpoint, and we found a lot more mentors like that at Techstars. In April of 2016, we raised our seed round, of $1.3M. At that time, it was 14 health plans.We

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

For example, in the entrepreneur world there are people like Elon Musk , who has demonstrated not only innovative ideas, but also impressive results in SpaceX, Tesla Motors, and Hyperloop. These accelerate your productivity, but must be continually updated from positive experiences, prior failures, and active listening.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2016

Here are seven key principles that I recommend you follow as an aspiring business leader or entrepreneur, based on my own experience in large companies as well as startups: Proactively ask for input to hone your vision. The best leaders focus on coaching and mentoring people on decision making, rather than giving orders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2016

They don’t realize that they are their own worst career enemies, since promotions and new opportunities always are offered first to people who proclaim to be productive winners, rather than sound like losers. Happier workers have been shown in studies to increase their pace (productivity) without sacrificing quality.

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Satisfaction Study Product Class 59

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Rather than focus on negatives, let me summarize key positive attributes that I look for in people to move ahead, from my own experience as a corporate executive, and many years mentoring entrepreneurs. Also, build mentoring relationships at the next level. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 11/30/2016.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2016

The points are great, but can be made even simpler and more actionable by adapting then to the world of the entrepreneur: Demonstrate character. Entrepreneur examples include Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Google, who turned a new search technology into a tool that most of us couldn’t live without. Richard Branson, now worth about $4.2

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Examples Startup Coach Patents 76

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. And here’s an important point that I think modern entrepreneurs often forget: Investors are “co-owners” of your business.

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socalTECH

MAY 10, 2018

It was the Summer of 2016, if I'm not mistaken. We want to create an ecosystem where we can easily connect the two geographical areas together, and have a continuous program which invites Israeli entrepreneurs to the LA ecosystem, and also more seriously connect them with investors in this particular area.

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El Segundo Southern California Startup Santa Monica 100

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Many entrepreneurs are so focused on finalizing their innovative product or service that they procrastinate on the formalities of forming the requisite new company until later. Building a business plan is a discipline every entrepreneur needs to learn early, required or not. Founder’s stock may be taxed at time of incorporation.

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