Class Marketing Mentor Writing 
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 24, 2014
As a result I didn’t write my first venture capital check until March 2009 – exactly 5 years ago. 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. 5 years ago. 5 years ago. The monkey on my back.
socalTECH
JUNE 6, 2011
Those programs--epitomized by YCombinator in the Bay Area, and TechStars in Boulder, Colorado--attract newly minted entrepreneurs with a mixture of cash and mentoring, and a program which rapidly takes ideas and turns them into viable, executing businesses. Those mentors are not just Bruce and I, although we are full time on this.
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InfoChachkie
APRIL 25, 2011
I have used Guy’s previous book, The Art Of The Start (Art ), in my UC Santa Barbara New Venture Creation class for the past five years. I read Enchantment anticipating that it might augment my Entrepernurial Selling class, which focuses on influence and persuasion, rather than sales tactics. Ask For Mentoring. No doubt, he did.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 11, 2010
The competition is set up to award $50,000 to the best team each year, and is also tied to a class on entrepreneurship for engineering students. Mentors outside of the university will come and help the innovators and students who have come up with their new ideas, and help them to convert those into professionally prepared business plans.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 22, 2015
As the founder, you won’t have a finance chief, a marketing staff or a requirements manager. Everyone must know how to listen, talk and write. Provide mentoring and self-learning opportunities. Most startups don’t have the time or resources to send team members to formal training classes, either in-house or off-site.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 21, 2014
You join teams that got good write-ups on TechCrunch, have great VCs, have star CEO’s, whatever. Our founder, Yves Sisteron, was my mentor and board member at my first startup. Writing a book will be fun. The truth is you really don’t know how your teammates or your bosses will perform in good times and bad.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 18, 2012
You have to understand why people need something they don’t have, before you can create it, or market it effectively. When I do mentoring and writing about current experiences, I realize all the things I don’t know, and this gives me more incentive to learn more. Share what you do know. Marty Zwilling.
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