Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

More importantly, we all need to develop the right relationships, and actively avoid those types that are not right for the business, or not right for our career at a particular point in time. Unlike the mentor, who is a coach and teacher, the advocate inspires you to be the best that you can be. Workship - Advocate. Friendship.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2020

More importantly, we all need to develop the right relationships, and actively avoid those types that are not right for the business, or not right for our career at a particular point in time. Unlike the mentor, who is a coach and teacher, the advocate inspires you to be the best that you can be. Workship - Advocate. Friendship.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2023

For example, I once had a business associate who loved to help his peers, which is a positive attribute, until he was unable to complete his own commitments on time, and his career was in jeopardy. Help others who have the potential for helping you. Become an active listener, and ask more questions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

For example, we all know people who really believe that everyone in the world is their supporter, when in fact many are actively working against them. But, like most other skills, you can learn from these priorities: Everyone benefits from active mentoring. Provide and seek coach and advocate relationships.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Team members can’t help you overcome any challenge if they don’t understand where you are coming from and why. These days, customers as well as team members, need to be able to relate to a higher purpose for your business, such as protecting the environment, or helping the disadvantaged. Small teams are often most effective.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2021

A winning linked focus example is to choose a higher purpose common to all cultures, such as protecting the environment, or helping the underprivileged. Old-fashioned surveys need help from new algorithms, data science, and digital bots. Make every customer experience memorable. Inspire your teams with love and affirmation.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

Whether the partner is a supplier looking to gain a lock on your business as it grows or a customer looking to create a competitive barrier through use of your product, such an investment typically carries fewer restrictions than from a professional investor and less oversight. It’s an option, even though an expensive one.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

In your opinion, are your angels more or less active this year? The debt market has pretty much shut down for people, though there is some money coming out of the SBAs that have been somewhat helpful. Mike Napoli: It's quality versus quantity. Interestnig. So do you think the environment still tough for startups?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2015

The last thing they can afford is to waste any of these, but in my mentoring and coaching activities, I see it happening all too often. Waste in a startup is any activity that spends resources, but creates no value or competitive advantage in the eyes of customers. Hire real help and learn to delegate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2013

Myers, a noted career coach, and author of “ Get The Job You Want, Even When No One’s Hiring ,” many job seekers and career changers make the mistake of halting all their efforts as summer approaches, believing that nobody will be hiring until early fall. Invest in career coaching. Actively work the network. According to Ford R.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2014

The last thing they can afford is to waste any of these, but in my mentoring and coaching activities, I see it happening all too often. Waste in a startup is any activity that absorbs resources, but creates no value or competitive advantage in the eyes of customers. Hire real help and learn to delegate.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

He had an idea for a startup that would help consumers better book service jobs and would take on Service Magic, which he believed had a business model that could be disrupted. I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan. In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. Nice sweep!

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2019

In fact, I just saw a new book supporting this position, “ Decisive Intuition ,” by Rick Snyder, an international business coach who has launched and grown several businesses of his own, as well as helped big companies, including Intel and Anytime Fitness. Then your intuitive forces will help you reach a balanced decision.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2011

Myers, a noted career coach, and author of “ Get The Job You Want, Even When No One’s Hiring ,” many job seekers and career changers make the mistake of halting all their efforts during the summer, believing that nobody will be hiring until early fall. Invest in career coaching. Actively work the network. According to Ford R.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2018

The last thing they can afford is to waste any of these, but in my mentoring and coaching activities, I see it happening all too often. Waste in a startup is any activity that spends resources, but creates no value or competitive advantage in the eyes of customers. Hire real help and learn to delegate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Most successful business people, whether retired or still active, would love to share some of the wisdom they have gained from their own experience, but are not inclined to impose themselves on others. It’s tempting for technical founders to seek more depth on technical issues, when they need marketing and financial help.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

With all of these tasks you end up with either a partner or two who “manages” the firm (some trade this role every couple of years), a loose confederation of partners who own and split tasks of management or a firm that brings in professionals who help manage the firm. Kerry brings experience from all parts of the marketing mix.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2010

Myers, a noted career coach, and author of “ Get The Job You Want, Even When No One’s Hiring ,” many job seekers and career changers make the mistake of halting all their efforts during the summer, believing that nobody will be hiring until early fall. Invest in career coaching. Actively work the network. According to Ford R.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2016

More importantly, we all need to develop the right relationships, and actively avoid those types that are not right for the business, or not right for our career at a particular point in time. Unlike the mentor, who is a coach and teacher, the advocate inspires you to be the best that you can be. Workship - Advocate. Friendship.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2013

More importantly, we all need to develop the right relationships, and actively avoid those types that are not right for the business, or not right for our career at a particular point in time: Acquaintanceship. Unlike the mentor, who is a coach and teacher, the advocate inspires you to be the best that you can be. Workship - Advocate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2017

Most business leaders today realize that smart management of scarce resources is the key to competitive success. Help make the difference makers even more effective. It also means setting up a personalized coaching and mentoring system, and accelerated rotations for top talent. That’s why they manage money so carefully.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Understanding where your VC partner sits in their respective fund and where their fund is in the cycle of its investment lifecycle will help you understand your VCs behavior. In addition to helping manage the board Chris also helps represent the interests of the angel investors / common stock holders. Assigns tasks. Assign away.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Effective time management skills are often the best competitive edge. Dr. Yager is a real guru on this subject, having been a productivity coach, trainer, and author for many years, and still found time to squeeze out over 30 books, including five related to this subject. See a deadline as something empowering, rather than negative.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

The company makes sure that there is always an upcoming event so the entire team has something to look forward to, and it uses methods to make sure the entire team works well together by insisting everyone helps keep break areas clean or sending random employees out to lunch together. Southwest isn’t new to the game.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

The company makes sure that there is always an upcoming event so the entire team has something to look forward to, and it uses methods to make sure the entire team works well together by insisting everyone helps keep break areas clean or sending random employees out to lunch together. Southwest isn’t new to the game.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2010

The group--which was started by Richard Koffler and John Morris , two well known investors in Los Angeles--has been trying to help connect CEOs with interesting university and other technology projects. It's trying to determine if there is a viable way to go to market, and also deal with competitive issues. Thanks for the time today.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

By going on sales calls you pick up directly the feedback of what customers want and also what they’re telling you about competition. By the time of my second company MySQL was a much more robust solution and worked well when you had to read a lot of information but was less performant on “write&# activities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2014

Effective time management skills are often the best competitive edge. Dr. Yager is a real guru on this subject, having been a productivity coach, trainer, and author for many years, and still found time to squeeze out over 30 books, including five related to this subject. See a deadline as something empowering, rather than negative.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Email Social Media 105

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2016

Some coaches and leaders seem to have the magic for bringing out the best in everyone. In her classic book “ Conversations for Creating Star Performers ,” she offers ten strategies I believe will leverage work activities into game-changing moments for team members and your company: Build awareness of expectations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2013

I found some help from marketing coach David Newman’s new book “ Do It! If you are focused exclusively on prospects who are actively seeking to solve the problem you are positioned to solve, you won’t need five or seven attempts to get their attention. Working the circuit of big groups of strangers is minimally productive.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

If you have a team of 10 people then by definition 90% of the time spent on activities is not put in by you and on a team of 100 it’s 99%. We try to hire deeply analytical associates to can help companies problem solve and who make us better investors. It’s important to get buy in. That’s healthy.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

In 2016, the renowned international university programming tournament — attended by student competitors, coaches, and parents — took place in Phuket, Thailand. But longtime ICPC student coach Antonette Logar, Ph.D., With the help of Visit Rapid City, Logar’s presentation convinced the ICPC Executive Committee to do a site visit.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 11, 2021

Linktree leads the space, securing a recent $45 million Series B raise to build out e-commerce features, but Beacons boasts competitive creator monetization tools with just a $6 million seed round in May. We decided to go with this model because we really want to have a relationship where we help the creators really make money.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 6, 2015

I was, however, very competitive when I was young, and had played football in high school well enough to get scholarship offers from what would be called division 1 schools in today’s world. These were sports that you taught yourself by watching others, and just pushed yourself to progress for fun, with no coach or parent influencing you.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

There are so many activities and events that have sprouted this year to support the thriving tech scene in Southern California. With all these many activities and so many people coming together it becomes inevitable that situations may arise that can interfere with the community’s best interest.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2023

You need to make sure that everyone on the team, from the clerical assistant to the chief financial officer, knows your vision and product, and doesn’t hesitate to actively engage and be an effective proponent with anyone who might be of value to the business. In fact, having one marketing guru on the team alone won’t get you very far.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2022

As with most investors and advisors, I always look first at some key personal characteristics and leadership strategies that I find often make you a more likely survivor and winner in the highly competitive world of businesses, both new and mature. I believe in the old axiom, “ no risk means no reward.”

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