Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I started in 2007 with a thesis that my primary investment decision would be about the team (70%) and only afterward about the market opportunity (30%). And there’s conferences. Oh, the conferences. You have to decide how hard to help with downstream marketing for your deals. Web Summit. Fortune Brainstorm.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2017

As an active business advisor and angel investor, I’m convinced that we are rapidly entering a new age of the entrepreneur, and those who are best prepared will be the first to reap some big rewards. Network conference. You learn as much as a coach as the student. It’s a win-win opportunity. Your future and mine depend on it.

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Coach Entrepreneur Ideas Class 80

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

When you raise money from investors you produce information that you are told they want and care about: A fund-raising deck that articulates your company strategy, plans, team, market, competitors and so forth. I hired a sales coach named Kai Krickle who helped me figure out how to close more deals.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth. Side Note : Upfront has hired Kerry Bennett as a member of our executive management team to run marketing – please follow her on Twitter here ].

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Venture Capital Platform Startup Resource 150

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 Coach Entrepreneur Networking 89

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2016

We caught up with Clayton Lewis , the company's CEO (and also a General Partner at Maveron), here in Los Angeles last week as it launched into this market. The second thing, which is different from other companies, is we have translated that into bite-sized recommendations, and we give you a coach. Arivale is based in Seattle.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

According to FLAG Capital there are 100 active VCs (as defined by making at least $1 million in VC per quarter for 4 consecutive quarters). So for argument’s sake let’s triple the number of active VCs and call it 300. It’s a market, after all. And Coach Campbell. Their data looks at tech VCs.

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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 Coach Entrepreneur Networking 94

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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Tips Startup Coach Entrepreneur 93

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%. But putting no time into anchoring your beliefs because you’re too busy executing sales, marketing, support, product & engineering is an easy recipe for leadership drift. Conviction.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

There has recently been a common theme among the entrepreneurs I have interviewed and the conferences I have attended: despite the relatively weak state of the world economy, now is a great time to create a high-tech startup. Marketing is free or cheap because of social media. People are free or cheap because of the recession.

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Company Companies Startup Study 257

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., In 2015, the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals were held in Marrakesh, Morocco.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. Ask for short conference calls. You may have an opinion on your market-entry strategy for Europe. In his spare time he raised nearly $30 million.

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Tips Email Venture Capital CTO Coach 365

Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

No program, activity or set of rules tops having happy and fulfilled employees who feel that what they are doing matters. Managers take on the role of a coach, more than anything, letting employees set goals and determine how they should be assessed. Sujan Patel. Contributor.

Examples 100

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

No program, activity or set of rules tops having happy and fulfilled employees who feel that what they are doing matters. Managers take on the role of a coach, more than anything, letting employees set goals and determine how they should be assessed. Sujan Patel. Contributor.

Examples 100

Examples Company Companies Google 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

They also talked about their outlook on the venture capital market, and how likely they are to be investing this year, given the worried economy. We are not looking to fund people in 2009, who are learning a new market, on our nickel. That market has sort of evaporated for the near/mid term, that's not what we're looking for.

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Tech Coast Angels Ideas Entrepreneur Invest 100

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We started seeing a demand for what we were doing and from there began throwing singles parties, doing match making, and date coaching. When you wait and continue to build this perfect product, you get it to market with all these features you’ve spent massive time on and no cares about them. With clients we guarantee three days.

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