Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2014

Entrepreneurs not only have to pick the right team members, but have to continually communicate the vision, tasks required, and provide mentoring and feedback to each member. It obviously helps to ask new customers what they see. Coaching and mentoring are key to the leadership role. People ignored see no leadership.

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Mentor Coach Entrepreneur Customer 103

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2013

Entrepreneurs not only have to pick the right team members, but have to continually communicate the vision, tasks required, and provide mentoring and feedback to each member. It obviously helps to ask new customers what they see. Coaching and mentoring are key to the leadership role. People ignored see no leadership.

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Entrepreneur Mentor Coach Customer 116

Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

This corporate partnership has proven well for these startups in helping them launch their products and services into another galaxy. “This year, more than ever, we are working with companies with the potential to help define the future of media and entertainment together with Disney.”

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Entertainment Press 109

InfoChachkie

APRIL 6, 2015

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. I grew to love many things about skating as I got into the industry I helped to create. I love that there are no coaches, and kids learn how to learn by teaching themselves.

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Mentor Pacific Palisades Startup Class 100

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2018

Help your employees build their individual strengths with customized coaching and special assignments. This may seem counter-intuitive to many managers who fear losing their best employees, since managers never seem to have time to focus on recruiting and mentoring new talent. Actively seek new opportunities for good employees.

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Mentor IBM IBM Examples 52

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

and I thought if we brought the community together for common purpose we could create more of a sense of community to help new entrepreneurs get funded, assemble teams, raise profiles and help with biz dev, product, etc. Between the group of us we were probably helping launch 75-100 companies / year. So we went for it.

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Venture Capital Startup Idealab Funding 290

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

I found that a lot of my time went into spending time with the country MD’s to show them that they were still important to me and that I was still willing to help with sales campaigns. If you want to attract world class talent you have to be inspirational, persuasive and persistent (they best people always have other offers).

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Venture Capital Startup Sales Customer 319

Both Sides of the Table

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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Startup Sales Class CIO 327

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 2, 2011

Thiel and friends will also agree to mentor these young entrepreneurs. Here is their inaugural class. Actually, they’ll get even more attention because this selection will put them in an even more exclusive peer group and will introduce them to even more connected mentors. So is this a good idea? My 2 cents: 1.

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Education Startup Incubator Class 322