socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

To learn more about how women are looking to change the investment climate--and get involved in investing themselves--we caught up with one of the Pipeline Fellowship''s local mentors, the CEO of Beyond Capital Fund (www.beyondcapitalfund.org), Eva Helene Yazhari , who is here in Los Angeles. What is the Pipeline Fellowship?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2023

Cash isn’t always the scarcest resource startups have to invest – more often it’s the leadership capital of under-experienced and over-stretched entrepreneurs and co-founders. The leadership challenge is to find the training or mentoring to fill the skill gap, or to find a new role that is a better match for the skills they do have.

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Resource Entrepreneur Startup Guide 107

socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2012

At a recent accelerator event on the West Side, a friendly young founder told me that he had been coached by his mentor not to talk to Angel groups. With the VC ranks shrinking, founders need to tap every source of capital out there. With the VC ranks shrinking, founders need to tap every source of capital out there.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Los Angeles is the capital of on-demand apps, for just about anything you want. We have about 350, nationally certified, trainers on the platform, all vetted internally by us, and by our mentor network. The flat rate includes use of those locations during training sessions. We have about 45 partner locations in the LA area.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2022

Many leaders do this today by supporting and promoting a higher-level purpose, beyond profits, such as helping the disadvantaged, sustaining the environment, or Conscious Capitalism. That means they must believe in what you are trying to do, and feel they have the right tools, training, and reward system to do the job that needs to be done.

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Product Training Customer Custom 109

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2022

As a startup mentor, I’m always amazed that some entrepreneurs seem to be an immediate hit with investors, while others struggle to get any attention at all. Finally I realized that venture capital and angel investors are actually humans, despite some views to the contrary. Expert in your chosen domain.

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Entrepreneur Social Media Patents Mentor 111

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Great leaders provide opportunities and personal growth assignments that go far beyond conventional training programs. They mentor protégés on talent spotting, creativity, and motivation as well as strategy. Great bosses capitalize on fresh new perspectives, the lure of no career constraints, and the benefits of a supportive network.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

As a mentor to startups, I see more startups that are really an individual professional, marketing themselves as a consultant or freelancer in this new gig economy. For existing trained professionals, it’s an opportunity to become an entrepreneur. Thus smart business professionals are rapidly becoming the new entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Yet I soon found that knowledge is power, and a little training and determination goes a long way toward removing the qualms. Asking someone to be your mentor is not a sign of weakness, and most mentors love to help. Capitalize on your strengths, and forget weaknesses.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The program provides training and mentoring programs for mission-based nonprofits seeking to create an earned income stream through a social venture. Where are the Social Capital Markets by Fran Seegull. Wednesday, September 22, 2010 -- Social Enterprise Venture Competition. Keynote: Social Enterprise 2.0-

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2022

Dini, tied together several threads I have often seen in my own experience of mentoring and helping aspiring entrepreneurs. Farmers are the management that comes after the hunt, to build repeatable processes, do seasonal planning, and make sure all employees are well-fed and trained. These are the ultimate hunters.

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Entrepreneur Marketing News Slides 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2020

Cash isn’t always the scarcest resource startups have to invest – more often it’s the leadership capital of under-experienced and over-stretched entrepreneurs and co-founders. The leadership challenge is to find the training or mentoring to fill the skill gap, or to find a new role that is a better match for the skills they do have.

Entrepreneur 126

Entrepreneur Resource Startup Guide 126

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2020

As a mentor to startups, I see more startups that are really an individual professional, marketing themselves as a consultant or freelancer in this new gig economy. For existing trained professionals, it’s an opportunity to become an entrepreneur. Thus smart business professionals are rapidly becoming the new entrepreneurs.

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Startup Social Media Course Entrepreneur 164

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

The Founder Institute (www.founderinstitute.com), an entrepreneurial training program that originally launched by Adeo Ressi in Silicon Valley, recently announced that it is setting up shop in Southern California, with branches both in San Diego and Los Angeles. What role do the mentors play? The mentors at the L.A. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2015

As a mentor to entrepreneurs, I often get asked what you can do to build the right culture. Mentoring and training programs need to be put in place early. They need opportunities to do new work and try out new roles, as well as have access to training updates in their current positions.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Mentor Training 102

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2019

In my role as a mentor to many business professionals, I still see some who have no idea how to adapt to the new realities. On the other hand, if you expect your employer to push you into future training required, always have a growth opportunity waiting, and set all your work parameters, then you may find a difficult road ahead.

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Social Media Training 96

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2020

As a startup mentor, I’m always amazed that some entrepreneurs seem to be an immediate hit with investors, while others struggle to get any attention at all. Finally I realized that venture capital and angel investors are actually humans, despite some views to the contrary. Expert in your chosen domain.

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Entrepreneur Social Media Patents Mentor 126

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2019

Most people agree that leadership is primarily a set of behaviors that capitalize on relationships and a current market and customer understanding in a complex world. That means a priority on coaching and mentoring, as well as training and tools, before focusing on results metrics. Eliminate the use of “off-the-record” comments.

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Tips Mentor Coach Metrics 97

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2022

This is a tough challenge for every coach and mentor. They assure us that your fears and qualms are normal, but the next step in your journey is more than possible if you focus on this key set of practices with full intention, awareness, and agility-in-action: Capitalize on your best talents and strengths.

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LATechDigest

MAY 22, 2016

Day One begins with Expert DOJO founder Brian Mac Mahon conducting a pitch training session, followed by live pitches to famed accelerator Techstars for consideration in their next program. Each startup will be able to choose up to three mentors to meet with for 7-minute sessions each.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2020

Don’t try to do it all – capitalize on your strengths. Increase you focus on coaching, training, and mentoring. Every founder has a story about the pivot that made their business, such as Starbucks switching to selling coffee from expresso makers, and Flickr from an online game to photo sharing. Stay in your personal sweet spot.

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Metrics Entrepreneur Coach Satisfaction 140

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

The science of finding recoveries is based on computer-based algorithms that flag high-potential errors and trained technicians that then review these claims. My partner & mentor Yves Sisteron ( You can get to know Yves in this YouTube video ) has been active at HDI for years (as has our CFO, Dana Kibler ). Women Entrepreneurs.

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GRP Partners Technical Review Truecar Invest 285

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2020

For example, Lyft and Uber were able to capitalize on the current ride-sharing trend worldwide by tracking statistics that indicated reduced interest in car ownership by millennials, lack of parking spaces, and auto ownership costs moving up rapidly. As Andy Grove famously wrote, “Only the paranoid survive.”

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Startup Customer Custom Statistics 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2022

With the current low capital requirements for smartphone and Internet apps, and high market volatility, it makes sense to spread the risk around as much as possible. Advisors and mentors are busy people. Multi-table investors are the norm, and the investment process is good training for multi-table entrepreneurs.

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Entrepreneur Startup Resource Course 145

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2015

As a mentor to startups, I see more and more startups that are really an individual professional, marketing themselves as a consultant or freelancer. For existing trained professionals, it’s an opportunity to become an entrepreneur. They know how to capitalize on social media, viral marketing, events, and the new tools of the trade.

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Entrepreneur Startup Mentor Social Media 99

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Real leaders improve the readiness, training, and preparation for these events, so that circumstances are not a source of pain, but are expected and can be accomplished with personal satisfaction. Traditional change management techniques need to be replaced by business readiness training and focus.

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Satisfaction Coach Mentor Training 55

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Sonnenfeldt presents a rich array of strategies in his forty lessons from the trenches, including the following paraphrased insights that I find often overlooked or even rejected, based on my years of experience mentoring entrepreneurs: Experience at a first-rate company is really valuable. You are never to smart or too old for a mentor.

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Entrepreneur Mentor Satisfaction Class 56

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Natalia not only wants to increase the number of women in investment, but bring more people in total to help startups and other businesses get the capital they need. We also want to create more capital for women entrepreneurs to increase the chances of being funded and connected to a bigger network. What is Pipeline Fellowship about?

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Mentor Invest Entrepreneur Startup 84

InfoChachkie

MAY 12, 2016

There are a number of tasks you can perform that will allow you to train in the art of entrepreneurship while you are in school or working at a large organization. If you are a recent college graduate, mentor college students. Like athletes, entrepreneurs benefit greatly from a coach, in the form of a caring mentor.

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Company Companies Startup Mentor 80

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2017

She speaks from years of experience mentoring and facilitating independent contractors and helping large companies, since well before the term “gig economy” was even coined. As a new business advisor and mentor myself, I enjoyed her recommendations on many of these issues. Your intellectual capital has value – factor it.

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Pricing Entrepreneur Mentor News 68

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Dini, tied together several threads I have often seen in my own experience of mentoring and helping aspiring entrepreneurs. Farmers are the management that comes after the hunt, to build repeatable processes, do seasonal planning, and make sure all employees are well-fed and trained. These are the ultimate hunters.

Entrepreneur 95

Entrepreneur News Slides Startup 95

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2014

By way of a definition, a business or startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources to nurture young companies, usually for a share of the equity, hoping to capitalize on their success, or at least strengthen the local economy. Expert mentoring and training. Peer support.

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Incubator Entrepreneur Technical Review Mentor 103

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

Get connected to the right mentors and your business may catapult to the next level. I figured if Matt was on the verge of bankruptcy and one mentor changed his trajectory, what if we had a formalized, community-wide program? What better than to have capital from somebody who has actually done it in the trenches? The answer?

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Acquisition Startup Customer Custom 304

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. And Jim & I went on to raise several more venture capital funds in our day jobs. We handed our offices over to our friends at General Assembly , who now use the space to train LA’s next generation of coders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

In fact, I’m a strong proponent of coaching and mentoring in the workplace, but I recognize that these efforts can only go so far in eliminating your human resources problems, and increasing team morale and performance. The focus of coaching should be to capitalize and extend their strengths, not manage their weaknesses.

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Coach Training Summary Tool 57

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2010

Don’t look here for venture capital levels of funding, but certainly early-stage government grants, incubators, and entrepreneurship incentives are available from endowments and state funds. Collaborative efforts with companies, like Siemens Venture Capital, are available for certain technology and focus areas. Legal advice.

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Help Startup Mentor Incubator 94

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2013

By way of a definition, a business or startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources to nurture young companies, usually for a share of the equity, hoping to capitalize on their success, or at least strengthen the local economy. Expert mentoring and training. Peer support.

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Incubator Help Startup Technical Review 115