Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Every entrepreneur and most professionals wish there were more hours in a day to get their work done. Yet there is more and more evidence that jumping tasks on every alert for a new email, text, or phone call actually decreases overall productivity. I concur, based on my own extended career in business and mentoring entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Every entrepreneur and most professionals wish there were more hours in a day to get their work done. Yet there is more and more evidence that jumping tasks on every alert for a new email, text, or phone call actually decreases overall productivity. I concur, based on my own extended career in business and mentoring entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Unfortunately, many of the business professionals I meet these days in my mentoring and consulting activities feel perennially stressed and out of control, versus calm and satisfied with their position. Find an activity to clear your head and refocus on the positives. Practice patience to listen before reacting out of emotion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Many entrepreneurs are not prepared for conflict, or actively avoid it. Try a good business mentor to get you on the right track. Don’t mistake sending text messages and emails as listening. Their vision, passion, and focus are so strong that they can’t imagine someone disagreeing, much less fighting them to the death.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2013

You can’t win as an entrepreneur working alone. I hope all this seems obvious to you, but I still get a good number of notes from “entrepreneurs” who have been busy inventing things all their life, but can’t find a partner to start their first business, and others trying to find an executive, an investor, or a lawyer. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Many entrepreneurs are not prepared for conflict, or actively avoid it. Try a good business mentor to get you on the right track. Don’t mistake sending text messages and emails as listening. business conflict entrepreneur innovation Peter Coleman startup' Not all conflicts are bad. Be fair, firm, and friendly.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

We have significant VC commitments (listed below) – every entering company will get $50,000 in funding, mentorship from top VCs and successful entrepreneurs plus free office space. One senior mentor to Launchpad LA recently said, “I got more out of Launchpad LA than I even put in. For the past 2.5

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Berkonomics

MAY 22, 2014

Bill Payne has been actively involved in angel investing since 1980, funding over 50 companies and mentoring over 100 more. In most cases, those entrepreneurs choosing to raise capital using PPMs retain specialists (many of whom are lawyers) to write their PPMs – a rather expensive undertaking. By Bill Payne.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2010

Mike Wolf is a mentor of mine, and a role model for many technology entrepreneurs and investors in the Phoenix, Arizona, area. More recently, he has invested in numerous local startups, while mentoring and advising hundreds of young entrepreneurs. You can contact Mike directly via email or his personal website.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

You can’t win as an entrepreneur working alone. I hope all this seems obvious to you, but I still get a good number of notes from “entrepreneurs” who have been busy inventing things all their life, but can’t find a partner to start their first business, and others trying to find an executive, an investor, or a lawyer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2011

Many entrepreneurs are not prepared for conflict, or actively avoid it. Try a good business mentor to get you on the right track. Don’t mistake sending text messages and emails as listening. Their vision, passion, and focus are so strong that they can’t imagine someone disagreeing, much less fighting them to the death.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Every entrepreneur and most professionals wish there were more hours in a day to get their work done. Yet there is more and more evidence that jumping tasks on every alert for a new email, text, or phone call actually decreases overall productivity. I concur, based on my own extended career in business and mentoring entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2015

You can’t win as an entrepreneur working alone. I hope all this seems obvious to you, but I still get a good number of notes from “entrepreneurs” who have been busy inventing things all their life, but can’t find a partner to start their first business, and others trying to find an executive, an investor, or a lawyer. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

You can’t win as an entrepreneur working alone. I hope all this seems obvious to you, but I still get a good number of notes from “entrepreneurs” who have been busy inventing things all their life, but can’t find a partner to start their first business, and others trying to find an executive, an investor, or a lawyer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2019

Image via Pixabay Many entrepreneurs are not prepared for conflict, or actively avoid it. Try a good business mentor to get you on the right track. Don’t mistake sending text messages and emails as listening. Each of the three types requires different strategies and tactics. Not all conflicts are bad.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

You can’t win as an entrepreneur working alone. I hope all this seems obvious to you, but I still get a good number of notes from “entrepreneurs” who have been busy inventing things all their life, but can’t find a partner to start their first business, and others trying to find an executive, an investor, or a lawyer. Marty Zwilling.

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Berkonomics

JULY 30, 2015

500 entrepreneur, after years as a senior marketing manager of a large computer company. One thing, though, that never bothers an entrepreneur is fear of the unknown. I digress for a moment with a business lesson direct from the hand of our mentor at the time, Mister Berkus himself. Editor’s note: Berni Jubb was an Inc.500

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2012

You can’t win as an entrepreneur working alone. I hope all this seems obvious to you, but I still get a good number of notes from “entrepreneurs” who have been busy inventing things all their life, but can’t find a partner to start their first business, and others trying to find an executive, an investor, or a lawyer.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

After all, I am no stranger to the publicly expressing the frustrations of dealing with the downside of this industry as I wrote about in 2006 when I was an entrepreneur. 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). But VC is like congress.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

Today we’re in a world where 10 accelerators are bombarding you with emails to meet their 10-15 companies. Of course these are great places to network with other investors, meet great entrepreneurs and keep your connections strong with senior execs at larger companies like Yahoo!, And there’s conferences. Web Summit.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2016

I created an accelerator & mentor network (Launchpad LA). He’s proved much more efficient that I ever was at tracking the activities of the community. 7 times out of 10 he knows what’s going on before I do and is either slipping a paper on my desk, texting me or emailing me something about to go down.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2017

Many entrepreneurs are not prepared for conflict, or actively avoid it. Try a good business mentor to get you on the right track. Don’t mistake sending text messages and emails as listening. Their vision, passion, and focus are so strong that they can’t imagine someone disagreeing, much less fighting them to the death.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

There was a lot of consumer internet activity again…resurgence of things, but it was still mysterious, venture capital was still kind of closed, 1st time entrepreneurs had a lot of questions that were unanswered, and there was still some sort of hand waiving around all the financing stuff and so we took it on….”. was starting.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2013

Despite a growing technology industry here in Southern California, local investors and entrepreneurs tell us there''s still a shortage of local, venture capital. What''s the best way for entrepreneurs to approach you? I''m pretty active in all of them as a mentor, and I''m at least a frequent visitors to all of the local accelerators.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2012

Many entrepreneurs are not prepared for conflict, or actively avoid it. Try a good business mentor to get you on the right track. Don’t mistake sending text messages and emails as listening. Their vision, passion, and focus are so strong that they can’t imagine someone disagreeing, much less fighting them to the death.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan. And I had been telling my partners for a couple of years that I thought Ethan was one of the more talented entrepreneurs I had come across in San Francisco. The company was called Red Beacon. I was standing with him when he won the TechCrunch 50 award.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Every entrepreneur has to be a decision-maker, even with information overload, emotional employees, angry customers and competitors hovering from every direction. While text messaging and email may seem more expedient, these do not convey the tone or body language you need to make the right decision.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2017

I have found that the most successful entrepreneurs and business executives have an impressive work ethic, and they surround themselves with a team of comparable commitment. percent are "actively disengaged." Starting and running a business is hard. Business is more about people than product. Never makes excuses.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Trust me – your chances of selling are much lower if you’re talking rather than actively listening. YOU Selling – My wise old friend & mentor, Ameet Shah, once told me after a meeting we had with clients (when I worked at Accenture), “there are two ways to run a meeting: asking or telling.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 26, 2011

Please join TechZulu as well as Los Angeles tech savvy elite comprised of VC’s, Angels investors, startups and your fellow entrepreneurs, as we celebrate LA’s most exciting tech creations of the moment with the brightest digital minds and engineering talents this side of Fresno. mt) Media Temple, Inc.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

In addition to the 330+ students, entrepreneurs and investors in attendance, the event also achieved over 45,000 views on the TechZulu live stream. GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content.

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Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

Pick an internal email system ( Gmail , Outlook ). Choose an email system to connect with customers ( Constant Contact , MailChimp , Sendgrid ). Business Mentors. Speak to entrepreneurs and leaders in your industry and consider asking them to be your mentor. Leverage current customers with email marketing.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

We want to provide our audience with not only amazing presenting startups/newly released products (submissions still open Apply Here ) but also outstanding people that can help you grow as an entrepreneur and lead a successful business. Mike continues to be actively involved with early-stage start-ups as an investor, advisor and board member.

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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. From LA Demo Day to Silicon Beach Fest to Crowdstart LA to hackathons to Startup Weekends, companies and entrepreneurs alike have joined forces to feed the startup ecosystem. LESSONS AND LAUGHS.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. upStart.LA is a startup accelerator based in Los Angeles that helps tech entrepreneurs get their business up and going. Community Sponsors.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 16, 2014

We recently sat down with Luc Berlin, co-founder of Miigle, a SoCal startup that has an aggressive global mission to bring entrepreneurs together from around the world. You can be an entrepreneur and at the same time you can be a mentor or an investor to someone else’s project. Back then, it was just him following his dream.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. Mike continues to be actively involved with early-stage start-ups as an investor, advisor and board member.

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