Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 3, 2023
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).
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 10, 2023
He brings over 25 years of experience with Silicon Valley leadership companies in highlighting winners and losers. It’s a rare and ideal combination for a large company, and you need to have the patience to evangelize with key decision makers. Coach: force for stability and mentoring.
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Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 22, 2023
As a mentor to many business professionals, I find many who are risk-averse or not confident in their own abilities to make forward-looking decisions. For a company to grow and thrive, it needs to find and broadcast its purpose in all that it does. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 05/08/2023
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Whether you are a business professional in a big company, or an entrepreneur with a startup, innovation is a key strategy. Many people believe that new ideas are the critical element of innovation, but in my experience as a mentor and investor, long-term business success is more about implementation than ideas.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 30, 2023
For example , when Yvon Chouinard founded Patagonia , a successful outdoor products company, his real goal was building safe products to help the environment. Some people love starting companies, while others enjoy scaling them. Assess who you can get for value and mentoring. Document and communicate a solid business plan.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 11, 2022
I started my first company in 1999 and was admittedly swept up in all of this: Magazine covers, fancy conferences, artificial valuations and easy money. Between 2006–2008 I sold both companies that I had started and became a VC. In a market doing this it becomes very hard to do otherwise.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 22, 2023
Others, including Jeff Bezos, spent time in a big company or two before breaking away to form their own. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 3/8/2023 Jeff Bezos now manages Amazon, which encompasses over 40 subsidiaries and operates worldwide.
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