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LA-based Maslo pivots to professional services, launching an AI product for executive coaching

TechCrunch LA

When the Los Angeles-based startup Maslo launched its first product in early 2018 , the company was focused on a direct-to-consumer tool designed to encourage mindfulness and self-awareness through a machine learning enabled avatar that would respond to individual’s inputs. Image courtesy of Maslo.

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7 Tips For Building The Right People Relationships

Startup Professionals Musings

Provide and seek coach and advocate relationships. The best coaches are people who care about you as a person, without any ulterior motives, and intend to inspire you to be the best that you can be. A good coach is not a critic. Make it a point to get to know other teams and customers.

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5 Tips For Making Your Whole Team A Marketing Machine

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, as a member of an angel investment group, I sometimes do some “due diligence” on promising startups looking for funding. Unfortunately, I often find team members who are not believers, or have a different view of the customer. Provide cross-functional mentoring and coaching. The result is no deal.

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What I’ve Learned from Fred Wilson

Both Sides of the Table

So part of playing an effective coach is helping the team to see the answer for themselves. My goal in the interview overall was to capture more of the personal side of Fred since so much of his investment thesis and portfolio work already comes out in his blog. You need to invest in good markets and bad.

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Make Yourself A Key Sustainable Competitive Advantage

Startup Professionals Musings

The leaders I admire most have invested a great deal of time understanding their own psychology and learning from their past patterns and difficulties. They don’t hesitate to get help from executive coaches, Meyers Briggs training, or other peer groups, such as the EO Network. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 10/17/2018.