Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

Build your own personal brand image through blogging, industry forums, and networking. These days, even with the pervasive Internet and social media, it still takes time and money for your marketing and customer communication efforts to have an impact. Build a strong team around you and learn from them.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Plug and Play San Diego, established in 2013 as a satellite of the Sunnyvale, CA-based incubator, has funneled 15 local startups through the Silicon Valley program after providing some coaching and other services in San Diego. It’s a place where we’re going to put 250 like-minded people, where I can mentor him, you can mentor me,” Cohen said.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2016

You Need to Find Your Mojo A Chip On Your Shoulder A few years ago I wrote a blog post on entrepreneurs with a chip on their shoulders. I wish more startups would get personal coaches so they could let out their angst to neutral people — not staff, not investors. I think it’s an important read. Mental toughness matters. You can evolve.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Took some time to crunch the numbers and evaluate our findings before re-circling back in 2009 and beginning what started as a blog. A blog with our reviews of the scene, locations, etc. We started seeing a demand for what we were doing and from there began throwing singles parties, doing match making, and date coaching.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Val and I started this single’s website/blog just for fun and on the side. We began doing singles events, matchmaking, and date coaching. For a female entering this world you have to get mentors, ask people to coffee. Soon I moved towards TV and worked at large networks like, VH1, CMT, and E! Entertainment. While at E!,

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

So part of playing an effective coach is helping the team to see the answer for themselves. My goal in the interview overall was to capture more of the personal side of Fred since so much of his investment thesis and portfolio work already comes out in his blog. Blogging is like Venus Fly Paper. This is classic Fred.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2013

Last year I wrote a blog post on entrepreneurs with a chip on their shoulders. My friend Seth Levine covered this well in his blog post on “ Handling Rejection ” which you should also read. I could link to a bunch of blog posts that come across this way but prefer not to single anybody out. Here’s the deal.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

And Coach Campbell. I’ve heard directly from top executives that Jeff Bezos (in my opinion the most talented person in the tech industry) has received his fair share of VC coaching in the early years. And hard for me to imagine the Fred Wilson and Albert Wenger weren’t instrumental mentors to David. I create videos.

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Daradiction

DECEMBER 31, 2009

Got mentors? All champions have coaches. Scott is graciously giving my friends a free coaching session to help discover and align mission and mark out well defined New Years resolutions for the first 50 people that respond to this blog post or contact him at scott/at/scottleese/dot/com. Who you gonna call? Scott Leese.

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