Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2016

We all come from the era where our society and education prepared us for the labor market, meaning working for someone else as an information professional, factory worker, or retail associate. We know now that people learn from a younger age, and keep coming back for more, from sources that are entertaining and educational ( edutainment ).

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2014

Also dont confuse a business advisor with a business coach. An advisors aim is to teach you what to do and how, in specific situations, unlike a coach who helps you develop your generic skills for deciding what to do and how. The advisor helps the entrepreneur fill an experience gap, and a coach helps fill a skill gap.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

By spending more time educating your board on your business you get more valuable advice from them. So what are Rob’s secret hacks that he didn’t spill in his blog post? . Key point – if your emails are as long as my blog posts you’re forked. ” His argument is as follows. Rob does it. On steroids.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

ThereNow has build a platform (physical camera + software platform) to help remote coaches help improve teachers. The classroom activities are recorded and the video is appended with comments from a remote coach. Udemy is an online education platform similar to EduFire and others. Ambitious goals. Pretty cool.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2014

Often times, you will find yourself working with people who "don''t know the ropes" and require extensive coaching and assistance. Hiring and firing decisions are hard, and that’s just the beginning. Then you have to deal with the mistakes. By definition, if you see the rewards here as outweighing the risks, you are an entrepreneur.

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Xconomy

JUNE 29, 2016

The system uses the Kinect motion tracking system to provide interactive feedback and educational information to patients during physical therapy. The system coaches patients through their rehab exercises, monitors their performance, and enables physical therapists and physicians to track a patient’s progress.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2009

Keeping a blog has been great because so many entrepreneurs have written me with questions about their companies and I’ve gotten to know many of you personally through the process. I hired a guy, Azhar Khan, who was raised in the Indian subcontinent (Pakistan, actually) but educated and worked his whole life in the US.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

More recently, we licensed our platform to leadership guru Marshall Goldsmith, so that he could transform his $200,000 coaching engagements into a virtual program, so that a much wider audience could benefit from Marshall's process and work. For an educator, it helps to bring classroom training to life.

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