socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

is necessary, how it's different, and how the company is approaching a launch during a global pandemic. What's your background and how did you start the company? This is the fifth company I've run as a CEO, and I've always thought that technology is about making complex problems simpler. How is the company funded?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Take advantage of free startup programs and mentors. They provide peer group organizations, usually called incubators, with free resources, practice environments, and outside mentoring that can help you learn and pivot with minimal cost. School mentors, professors, and peers will give you the critical feedback without passing judgment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2021

The company has since gone public, and is still a market leader. In most companies, maintaining momentum requires the right strategic partners and acquisitions, in lieu of short-term price adjustments and special sales. Utilize outside expertise and mentoring. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/22/2020.

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Daradiction

DECEMBER 31, 2009

As I reflect upon the past decade and get clear about my vision for my life by 2020 there are a few stories that I would like to share with you: Petunia Pickle Bottom. My best friend Braden Jones and his wife Denai started a company in my hometown of Ventura in 2001 called Petunia Pickle Bottom and gave birth to a new industry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2020

In my role as a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, I find that most have the technical challenges well understood, but many are a bit short on some basic street smarts , or basic business realities. Although Elon Musk doesn’t talk about it very much, he owns over 350 patents through Tesla, just one of his many companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Based on my experience and a business advisor and mentor, this is the ideal time to get back to the basics of business leadership and innovation. Through mentoring and coaching, you can build a culture of sharing and collaboration throughout the team. He considers mentoring on of his most critical roles at work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

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 Capital and Google Ventures (GV).

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2020

As a startup mentor and advisor, I often contemplate what makes the difference between winners and losers. The best business people are also the best mentors and coaches. Sir Richard Branson , founder of Virgin Atlantic and the Virgin Group, now controls more than 400 companies in various fields.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2021

Johnson , was quick to accept accountability via a company apology on Twitter for a racial profiling incident at a Starbucks in Philadelphia, even though he could have claimed that a fired employee was at fault. In too many companies I know, various teams work on projects throughout the year, and no one measures anything.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Many entrepreneurs I have mentored make big mistakes in this area, by hiring low-cost friends and family, with minimal skills or training, and expecting them to have the same work ethic , passion, and business knowledge as the founder. Customers won’t know that vendors are not employees of your company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The traditional model for hiring permanent employees who can grow their career with your company just doesn’t work, and can jeopardize your business before it even gets traction. Many successful new companies have moved more to self-management, or decentralizing the decision-making with few managers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2020

In my experience as a business mentor, one of the biggest challenges I see is a failure to focus. This culture is best maintained by every business leader at every stage of company maturity. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 05/19/2020.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 1, 2020

In our business lives we’re having to deal with decisions that could have lasting impacts on our companies without any compass to guide us in the direction we’re heading . It goes without saying that if you find yourself in a really negative headspace PLEASE reach out to any trusted mentor, friend or family member. you name it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

An occasional discussion with a mentor won’t do it. Scaling is the holy grail of every new venture – from local to global, from online to brick-and-mortar to partners to mergers and acquisitions, from a private company to a public company, from cash-flow-positive to the next unicorn.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

In a larger public company, it’s all about making your quarterly numbers, versus investing in strategic growth alternatives that may not pay off until several quarters later. Get outside the company regularly to get feedback on future customer needs, emerging technologies, and the views of influencers and experts in the field.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2020

As a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, I’m always surprised by the fact that some never seem to be able to that first startup going, while many others never seem to stop, starting their second or third initiative before the first one is fully hatched. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 06/27/2020.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2020

There are also many more stories of companies that pivoted too late. Increase you focus on coaching, training, and mentoring. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 06/26/2020. Don’t try to do it all – capitalize on your strengths. Stay in your personal sweet spot.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

In my business of mentoring new entrepreneurs and advising small company owners, I recognize that most don’t start as experienced leaders, and most don’t realize that people leadership is a primary key to their future success. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 02/04/2020.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

Topics we covered: B2B Companies You haven’t seen the full extent to how the correction is going to affect you. I pointed out that throughout history building companies has always taken time and we as a market have put an urgency to rush growth rates. A seed company hasn’t ramped up its cost base. Harry posed these questions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Partially due to the economy, but also due to longer, healthier lives and changes in job tenure, 60% of working Boomers are now expected to stay in the labor force, with real power and influence, for at least seven more years, to 2020. percent to 23.4 percent last year. These trends seem likely to persist.

Entrepreneur 118

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2012

Partially due to the economy, but also due to longer, healthier lives and changes in job tenure, 62% of working Boomers are now expected to stay in the labor force, with real power and influence, for at least nine more years, to 2020. These trends seem likely to persist.

Startup 112

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Partially due to the economy, but also due to longer, healthier lives and changes in job tenure, 62% of working Boomers are now expected to stay in the labor force, with real power and influence, for at least nine more years, to 2020. These trends seem likely to persist.

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Technical Review Technical Support Study Activity 94

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. By 2020, the cannabis industry is projected to hit $21.8 billion , according to ArcView Market Research.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2020

It is a company with a mission to create better access and more funding for Black entrepreneurs and executives. You can hear more about the importance of mentoring from Kobie Fuller, Valence advisor James Lowry, and John Legend? in this video from the 2020 Upfront Summit. But let’s be clear. WE WILL WIN. So let’s get it.

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