Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

As a mentor to many entrepreneurs and business owners, I find that many of you have a real fear of uncomfortable interaction situations with individuals on your team, and often delay these discussions endlessly until a crisis occurs. If you listen carefully, you will also learn from them, diffusing your fear of confrontations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2016

Workship - Mentor. Unlike the mentor, who is a coach and teacher, the advocate inspires you to be the best that you can be. Unlike the mentor, who is a coach and teacher, the advocate inspires you to be the best that you can be. Workship - Advocate. Workship - Trailblazer. Workships and friendships can’t be forced.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2013

Workship - Mentor. Unlike the mentor, who is a coach and teacher, the advocate inspires you to be the best that you can be. Unlike the mentor, who is a coach and teacher, the advocate inspires you to be the best that you can be. Workship - Advocate. Workship - Trailblazer. Workships and friendships can’t be forced.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

Companies were getting funded more easily and many more companies were actually being created. You can see Zach James & Rich Raddon who are standing next to a demo table pitching a small, yet-to-be-funded company called MovieClips – now the powerhouse ZEFR. By 2011 the market had started to change dramatically.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

I admit that I haven’t yet read it but I’ve had numerous discussions with Brad over the years about board structure & conduct and consider him a mentor on the topic. When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. In the Early Days.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

You invest across many funds just as VCs invest across many companies. Let’s look at some great companies. Is it right that VCs had no involvement in persuading Sheryl Sandberg to join the fledgling company? And Coach Campbell. So I can make a huge difference in the company’s trajectory.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2023

I recall a good summary of how to motivate and train a team to accomplish this in the classic book, “ The Business of Creativity: How to Build the Right Team for Success ,” by Keith Granet. It doesn’t take a huge marketing budget to provide public recognition in team meetings for individual initiatives that can benefit the company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

I recall a good summary of how to motivate and train a team to accomplish this in the classic book, “ The Business of Creativity: How to Build the Right Team for Success ,” by Keith Granet. It doesn’t take a huge marketing budget to provide public recognition in team meetings for individual initiatives that can benefit the company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2016

I just saw a good summary of how to motivate and train your team to accomplish this in a new book, “ The Business of Creativity: How to Build the Right Team for Success ,” by Keith Granet. It doesn’t take a huge marketing budget to provide public recognition in team meetings for individual initiatives that can benefit the company.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Not all of these products & companies came from Silicon Valley but the overwhelming majority did. Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. To be clear we will continue to see great infrastructure companies built and these will mostly come from Silicon Valley. All great communication companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Here is a summary of some key investor stereotypes that generally need to be avoided: Investment sharks. Violation of abstract clauses may be used as a way to push you out, take over the company or pull the investment. Academic coach investors. A good advisor and mentor will tackle questions and then offer key insights.

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