Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 11, 2021
Authors Adrian Gostick and Chestor Elton, with their deep backgrounds as executive coaches and organizational consultants, recommend some simple methods, consistent with my own beliefs, to reduce the pain of uncertainty, and increase productivity, in your teams and employees: Make it okay for them to not have all the answers.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 11, 2022
How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? And then in the late 90’s money crept in, swept in to town by public markets, instant wealth and an absurd sky-rocketing of valuations based on no reasonable metrics. What happened? People were building.
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socalTECH
DECEMBER 30, 2020
This is my 4th market upset and in the first three I was defensive. What are you most looking forward to in the technology/startup world in 2021? We are extremely focused on these regions in our hunt for Unicorns in 2021. We intend to double down on investing in 2021 with 2 investments a week planned.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 29, 2021
Whether it be in person, on the phone, or implied in your marketing, your people and their engagement level is the key driver of customer loyalty, advocacy, and sales growth. You need their full support in today’s rapidly changing market. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 01/15/2021.
socalTECH
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Two new additions to our portfolio companies stand out in particular: NextCar (Scott Painters latest disruptive LA-based automotive market play) and Transmute (Karyl Fowlers Austin-based supply chain identity and credentialing platform). What are you most looking forward to in the technology/startup world in 2021? Being grateful.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
Unfortunately, I often see goal misalignments with teams, such as marketing measured on sales volume, or sales measured on customer retention. The goal should always be coaching to solve problems, not blame assignment or negative feedback. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 10/27/2021.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
For many, it’s hard to make the switch from that top-down order-giving culture, and it’s hard to find the time to recruit and coach the new team members you need to scale the business to success. We all need to be humble and recognize that what we need to know about technology and the market changes daily.
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