Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2020

By hiring contract experts, less oversight and coaching is needed. You can advertise your “greener” strategy, which today will get you greater customer loyalty and advocacy. In addition, you need the flexibility to pivot quickly as required. You all have to deal today primarily with on-demand customers in an on-demand economy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2016

Provide coaching and mentoring as well as training. Customer-centric founders have found that interactive coaching and mentoring by experienced peers is more effective and positive in keeping everyone up to speed on trends, competition, customer demands and technology. Formal training for the team is just the beginning, not the end.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2011

That’s the reason every good parent should be coaching their child from birth to avoid posting all the naughty things on social networks that can come back to haunt them later. To illustrate the point, here is a true story posted by Seth Godin a while back: “A friend advertised on Craigslist for a housekeeper.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2013

Train and coach continuously. In the past, competitive advantage was all about economies of scale, advertising power, and service versus price. The process must be employee friendly, as well as customer friendly, and have feedback mechanisms to correct poor results. If service employees are not happy, the process isn’t working yet.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

Silicon Beach Fest covers more than 30 topics that uniquely reflect LA’s strengths, including: Investors, Entrepreneurship, Entertainment, Games, Social Media, Digital Content, Advertising Technology, Design UX/UI, Fashion, and more.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

As we’ve ramped up direct sales over the last few years our need to have relationships with the major media & advertising companies has become critical. We have also built out an amazing management team. And here’s the thing. As we have invested millions in building out our sales organization efficiency really matters.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2010

That’s the reason every good parent should be coaching their child from birth to avoid posting all the naughty things on social networks that can come back to haunt them later. To illustrate the point, here is a story posted by Seth Godin a while back: “A friend advertised on Craigslist for a housekeeper.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2019

In fact, it does take time, but in my view brings far more value than many of the things you might otherwise be doing, including expensive advertising, extensive networking, or email blasts. Customers pay extra, and inherently gravitate to people they view as leaders, rather than others just pushing advertising and web content.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

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AeA Los Angeles Council

APRIL 10, 2008

He has been a CEO Coach, general manager, VP of Sales and sales trainer and is known for driving growth in difficult situations where tact and change are needed. Advertising, Direct and PR Agency Executives. Marketing is in her blood and yes, she bleeds Blue. Who should attend? Presidents, CEOs, Business Owners. Sales Directors.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2017

Usually, it's someone with just curiosity about the app, and the advertisers will pay several dollars for that download, only to have the user just delete the app, without having ever played it or even gotten through a tutorial. To a man, they tell us it's the best advertising unit they've ever seen in their life. That's number two.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2016

First, you need to carefully define and advertise your requirements in terms as specific as possible to your startup. Provide required team integration, training and ongoing coaching. In my experience, these sources are viable, but the process with them requires even more effort and time, and you have to know what to look for.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

When you would fund a company in a space--say, digital out of home advertising--people would point to Focus Media being worth $6 billlion, and you would suddenly see five companies each raise more than $10M, and some raising $20M, at extremely high valuations. If you're one of the ten finalists, you get intense coaching.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 16, 2011

After college I came back to Los Angeles to work in the advertising industry. We began doing singles events, matchmaking, and date coaching. Soon I moved towards TV and worked at large networks like, VH1, CMT, and E! Entertainment. While at E!, Val and I started this single’s website/blog just for fun and on the side.

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