Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

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. The key to cultivating joy is to anticipate at least some activities you enjoy daily.

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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 25, 2020

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. The key to cultivating joy is to anticipate at least some activities you enjoy daily.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2021

If you are active in helping others with what you know, they will be much more open to help you when you need it. Face time is critical, even with the current rage on social networks, phone texting, and email. Nominate someone as your mentor. You don’t need a thousand friends, but a few real ones can make all the difference.

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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

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Don’t be limited by only non-real-time communications, implied with emails, texts, and online forums. You need to step out of your comfort zone to socialize, meet new people, and collaborate with peers, company leaders, and mentors. Seek expert mentors and always evaluate feedback. Ramp up face-to-face time with key contacts.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

To give visibility to these companies to: Sources of funding (angels / VCs), business development partners, mentors who have themselves built successful companies, the press and potential employees to hire. One senior mentor to Launchpad LA recently said, “I got more out of Launchpad LA than I even put in.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2014

It came from my weekend activities. I reviewed an email from Kara Nortman, the CEO of Moonfrye who is working on putting together venture debt. I then traded emails with two former senior tech professionals in LA. Finally, I think it’s worth meeting “mentors.” So I connected her with two CEOs and a CFO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

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. The key to cultivating joy is to anticipate at least some activities you enjoy daily.

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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. The first step is to assess whether the conflict is win-lose, win-win, or mixed (some competing and some shared goals).

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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. Email readers, continue here.] If I don’t like the terms offered in the PPM, why don’t I insist that the terms be changed to accommodate my partialities as an angel investor? By Bill Payne.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

If you are active in helping others with what you know, they will be much more open to help you when you need it. Face time is critical, even with the current rage on social networks, phone texting, and email. Nominate someone as your mentor. You don’t need a thousand friends, but a few real ones can make all the difference.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2015

If you are active in helping others with what you know, they will be much more open to help you when you need it. Face time is critical, even with the current rage on social networks, phone texting, and email. Nominate someone as your mentor. You don’t need a thousand friends, but a few real ones can make all the difference.

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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

AUGUST 8, 2012

See my recent article “ Smart Entrepreneurs Plan Key Networking Activities ” on how and where to get started. If you are active in helping others with what you know, they will be much more open to help you when you need it. Face time is critical, even with the current rage on social networks, phone texting, and email.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2013

If you are active in helping others with what you know, they will be much more open to help you when you need it. Face time is critical, even with the current rage on social networks, phone texting, and email. Nominate someone as your mentor. You don’t need a thousand friends, but a few real ones can make all the difference.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2019

Image via Pixabay As a mentor to many small business owners, I always caution them that you can never relax completely, just because your initial solution or product set appears to be getting traction, and the market buzz is positive. It’s time to really focus on social media, videos, and email.

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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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Berkonomics

JULY 30, 2015

I digress for a moment with a business lesson direct from the hand of our mentor at the time, Mister Berkus himself. You can’t stop an entrepreneur from starting a new business or activity that is viewed as hopelessly stupid by detractors – and merely insane by close relatives.

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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. 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

AUGUST 15, 2017

Communicate frequently and proactively The most effective CEOs that I’ve observed send regular, short, board update emails every few weeks or monthly just to give the board a sense of what is going on. I can’t change who your board members are so let me offer some thoughts on how to make your interactions with your board more productive.

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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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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. I am active on a number of Boards of organizations that support entrepreneurship.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

If you are active in helping others with what you know, they will be much more open to help you when you need it. Face time is critical, even with the current rage on social networks, phone texting, and email. Nominate someone as your mentor. You don’t need a thousand friends, but a few real ones can make all the difference.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan. ” When merchants sign up MyTime then helps them with marketing activities through marketing automation tools they’ve build across SEM, social, and email. 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

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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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. This is when founders need you the most – either are coach, mentor, interviewer, work off-loader or honest-mirror-reflection of reality. You need to be very present in these periods of time. Probably more.

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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. Distribution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2017

No single person knows enough to solve every problem in a business, so the best business executives are always anxious to listen and learn from others, especially mentors and customers. percent are "actively disengaged." Dependably and reliably delivers on commitments. Never makes excuses.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

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. Many short dialogs in chaotic environments separated by other activities do not facilitate deep thinking or lasting decisions. Allocate contiguous time and process for critical decisions.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2013

David Waxman: It''s always great if you can get a referral, but you can also feel free to reach out to me directly--my email is on our website. 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. What''s the best way for entrepreneurs to approach you?

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

If you are active in helping others with what you know, they will be much more open to help you when you need it. Face time is critical, even with the current rage on social networks, phone texting, and email. Nominate someone as your mentor. You don’t need a thousand friends, but a few real ones can make all the difference.

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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. If you read Ken Auletta’s piece it makes it clear there was active VCs involvement in the early days.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

andi lets you 1) multitask on screen with live panels and transition to and from multiple task sets, 2) browse offline docs and apps in the same multitask environment as online activities, and 3) organizes and manages unlimited panels and queues in a single active session. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 26, 2011

Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund. Providing more than just money, TCA brings connections, knowledge, mentoring and operational assistance to bold early-stage entrepreneurs with game-changing ideas. mt) Media Temple, Inc.

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