Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Any startup coach or business advisor will tell you that, on your way to being a great chef, you don't start your journey by inventing the ultimate entre. You need a good cook, good marketing, and first-class service. You know the basic ingredients, and you can visualize the results you want. Don’t stand still.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

And a host of interesting companies in last mile have cropped up to give the Amazon ecosystem some competition, like two companies from the last Techstars LA class - Shipsi and PRZM. A certified executive coach, Anna works with her portfolio companies to build great teams, develop a sound strategy and create a strong network.

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MARCH 24, 2014

I spent my first year developing proprietary deal flow and learning the business and then the Sept 2008 / Lehman Bros collapse / financial meltdown happened. It turns out it actually takes time to build a high-growth business with differentiated intellectual property and roll out large, enterprise-class marketing solutions. years ago.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2019

Priority is placed on employee mentoring and coaching. A primary focus on process leads to highly structured training classes, leaving little room for personal career development. Self-motivated team members are known to be many times more productive than others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2015

In reality, the picture is a bit larger than this, as outlined in a new book “ Leading with GRIT ,” by Laurie Sudbrink, a well-known business leadership coach and speaker. To explain accountability, she and I are strong proponents of the Accountability Ladder , which has been included in every Management 101 class for many years.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Launchpad LA today announces it will accept applications for its third class of Los Angeles-based tech startups. 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.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The program is based on a highly developed process created by entrepreneurial thought-leader and Ivy League educator Steve Blank , author of the book The Four Steps to the Epiphany. Customer Development. This class is designed to help entrepreneurs understand where they are going wrong.”. The Flipped Classroom Approach.

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JANUARY 22, 2014

VCs should be more of a coach than proscriptively telling you what to do. Of course it is super helpful if a VC can drop you in to important people for business development, recruiting, PR, sales and eventually M&A. I think of VCs as coaches. Neither class of people should give up easily. Connections? Commitment.

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MAY 30, 2019

The final piece is online coaching, which allows people, 7 days a week, to click and talk to a professional development coach, and help them go through questions, answer things like what should by resume look like. I love watching people develop their careers, and I love breaking into markets.

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Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

And over the past three years, Imperson has developed conversational chatbots powered by their artificial intelligence for several Disney projects, including most recently for Walt Disney World’s Pandora – The World of Avatar , according to a press release. Epic Games.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2017

Priority is placed on employee mentoring and coaching. A primary focus on process leads to highly structured training classes, leaving little room for personal career development. Self-motivated team members are known to be many times more productive than others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2018

Any startup coach or business advisor will tell you that, on your way to being a great chef, you don't start your journey by inventing the ultimate entre. You need a good cook, good marketing, and first-class service. You know the basic ingredients, and you can visualize the results you want. Don’t stand still.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2016

In reality, the picture is a bit larger than this, as outlined in a recent book “ Leading with GRIT ,” by Laurie Sudbrink, a well-known business leadership coach and speaker. To explain accountability, she and I are strong proponents of the Accountability Ladder , which has been included in every Management 101 class for many years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Any startup coach or business advisor will tell you that, on your way to being a great chef, you don't start your journey by inventing the ultimate entre. You need a good cook, good marketing, and first-class service. You know the basic ingredients, and you can visualize the results you want. Don’t stand still.

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StartUp Beat

JANUARY 24, 2018

They make great employees, in other words, says Thornton – the co-founder of Coding Autism, a professional coaching and training company for adults on the autism spectrum. Coding Autism offers a 20-week intensive boot camp, providing training in software engineering, quality assurance and web development. photo courtesy of @TechKidsU.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 6, 2015

After riding the new PU wheels for a while, I began to dream of better shapes for the wheels for skateboarding, and developed the double radial skateboard wheel. These were sports that you taught yourself by watching others, and just pushed yourself to progress for fun, with no coach or parent influencing you. In a class by himself.

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JUNE 13, 2011

Jonathan Lehmann: I was awarded the Larry Wolfen Entrepreneurial Spirit Award at UCLA, after getting amazing coaching from Matt Ridenour in our business plan development class. That allowed me to take a summer to develop the new idea, and transform it into a business. It has been really amazing.

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MAY 27, 2013

But the thing I am most proud of about Rob is that he has taken a company with a uniquely talented founder & CTO – Nick Halstead – and managed to build a very tight working relationship with Nick where we drive world-class product development without having the usual founder / CEO conflicts. Rob is driven to learn.

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LATechDigest

AUGUST 23, 2016

Focus is on Growth-Stage Companies and Strategic Business Development. ShotTracker with its innovative “ShotTracker TEAM” solution, affordably captures real-time stats for basketball teams, yielding powerful analytics for coaches, players and fans. The program launches today in R/GA’s LA office.

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AUGUST 26, 2019

Andrew and Petri had left game developer Rovio (of Angry Birds fame) and were creating a new games company called Seriously that would combine compelling intellectual property (characters), great narratives, and fun game play in a mobile-first application. Ok, I did occasionally pepper him with questions about Seriously.

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OCTOBER 12, 2010

Even if you don’t have “direct&# sales I would tell you that “everything is a sale&# including fund raising, hiring, getting press and doing business development. Also, this goes equally for business development. I always tell people, “hire somebody who wants to punch above their weight class &# (i.e.

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APRIL 3, 2014

” So I did want any rational person who wants to improve does – I hired a coach. Obviously to understand a “class” of people you have to make broad generalizations. We have 12 developers and they have 3. Sales people will often sell future development work. Here are mine.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 12, 2012

Board skills (Startup coaching, mentoring, strategy, operational/growth). Most of them pick it up fairly quickly… but some of them spend their whole careers never understanding what business they are in and think of it as a financial asset class.”. Rolodex/deal flow (deal sourcing/ability to make connections for the portfolio).

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 14, 2015

codeSpark develops the kids' game The Foos , which teaches kids the principles behind software programming, all without words, even for those who can't read or don't speak English. The original spark came, because my daughter, Naomi, who is six and was in first grade at the time, took a Lego Robotics class.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

The trophy investor understands these challenges and has developed a professional process to manage his investments. The investor must see this class of investment as completely discretionary, where all of the money may be lost, but the experience will be one that the investor benefits from and enjoys nonetheless. Emotional maturity.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

All three said the same thing: They were thrilled at the opportunity to prove that their destination — although smaller, lesser known, or farther away — has just as many cultural and intellectual assets to attract world-class events as the big guys. But longtime ICPC student coach Antonette Logar, Ph.D., Rapid City, South Dakota.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

I had developers who thought that the chief architect was a bottleneck – having to be involved in every decision. Our most talented developer wanted to move to the US for personal reasons. This is akin in the US to having sales staff in NY, SF & LA with your HQ in one of these locations. We faced it when we were small.

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2010

Robin Richards: After selling Notification Technology to Blackboard, we kind of sat around and said--where is there a marketplace, that can do some good, really needs to be developed using technology, and where there is no major player involved. When we've tried to call for an intern, no one pays much mind.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

Instead of writing a book, we wanted to develop a platform to bring our methods to life, and scale our knowledge. Milo Sindell: Essentially, a Genie is an online web application that is organized into certain sections, by day, week, month, units, steps, or classes. But, it didn't seem scalable.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

So I did want any rational person who wants to improve does – I hired a coach. Obviously to understand a “class&# of people you have to make broad generalizations. We have 12 developers and they have 3. Sales people will often sell future development work. Here are mine. Sales people: Are motivated by cash.

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OCTOBER 22, 2009

Only Hire A+ People Who Punch Above Their Weight Class. I believe that you should always hire people are are looking to “punch above their weight class,&# which means to hire people who want to be one league above where they are today. Weight Class : Let’s take sales. I’m not one of those. Your solution?

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JUNE 2, 2011

Here is their inaugural class. I was prepared way more for business success in my political science classes than in my economics ones (I was a double major). If I’m counseling young people I often coach them to consider getting degrees that will be practical for becoming more employable when they graduate. My 2 cents: 1.

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