Berkonomics

JULY 15, 2021

The culture of the company is built day by day by those actions, often centering on the founder’s vision and management style with little room for deviation. You may have been managing for years and need to hire that direct report to lessen your workload, setting up the same result. Why is this so often a problem? Then it happens.

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socalTECH

APRIL 17, 2015

San Diego-based Lytx , which develops video-based, driver safety systems, reported a win with trucking insurance company Canal Insurance Company. Lytx said Canal will offer up its Lytx DriveCam Program to its fleet customers as a value added service. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 13, 2013

This Hackathon--sponsored by such companies as Google, Scopely, ESRI, Factual, LA Makerspace, AT&T and others--is being held in Boyle Heights on June 1st and 2nd. Coaches and mentors from companies like Topspin Media, Citysearch, Beachbody, Lootsie, Datapop, and Carbon also are involved. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The traditional model for hiring permanent employees who can grow their career with your company just doesn’t work, and can jeopardize your business before it even gets traction. By hiring contract experts, less oversight and coaching is needed. In addition, you need the flexibility to pivot quickly as required.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2021

Are you often frustrated that people reporting to you, or key peers, seem to dodge accountability for their actions? Perhaps you need to do more to be a role model for accountability , and provide more coaching on exactly what it means. For example, a couple of years ago, Starbucks' chief executive officer, Kevin R.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2018

Unfortunately, according to Gallup’s State of the American Workplace report, only about one-third of employees feel like owners. I was impressed to see some real guidance on this subject in a new book, “ Counter Mentor Leadership ”, by Kelly and Robby Riggs, a father-son coaching team that spans the age spectrum.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

It’s very common for startup companies to have COO’s. In a mature company it’s often like a presidential chief of staff. They will often run all of the daily reports into them covering off for finance, sales, marketing, biz dev & HR. And I decided that his startup company was not MY deal.

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JANUARY 27, 2013

” If your company was featured there (in the early days of what people called Web 2.0) But the obvious thing dawned on many people – the early-adopter, tech-obsessed readers of TechCrunch at the time were not necessarily the typical users of many company’s products. They want validation. Build Your Search History.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2020

For example, Blake Mycoskie, founder of shoe company Toms , donates a pair one-for-one, keeps himself and his team recharged by sending employees to travel internationally and work directly in the field where the shoes are donated. Make sure your objectives and rewards motivate employees through innovation, and desired training and coaching.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

We have significant VC commitments (listed below) – every entering company will get $50,000 in funding, mentorship from top VCs and successful entrepreneurs plus free office space. For any company interested in applying please visit the website. To show these companies that they can remain in LA. Report Card.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 5, 2016

This money will be used to further grow the studio and amplify resources for [build], rhubarb studios ’ three-month immersive coaching program which takes startups from conception to series A. “We The post rhubarb studios Raises $1 Million in Financing to Accelerate Growth appeared first on TechZulu.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2019

I found many more helpful suggestions in a new book, “ The Culture Question ,” by Randy Grieser, Eric Stutzman, Wendy Loewen, and Michael Labun, who have spent years providing leadership and professional development training to companies around the world. Many companies also promote local mentoring and coaching opportunities.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

A good early-stage CEO needs to be accessible, to be accountable for producing results and should be establishing the cultural norms of the company through direct leadership at all levels. But issues do arise as your company grows. I see two common mistakes in companies (not just in startups, in fact).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2014

One of the interesting things about being a VC is that you often see companies in transition. I also see companies as they move from having taken $1-5 million from me to their next round where they raise $8-15 million from Series B investors and sometimes I lead at this round (we’re stage agnostic but 80% of our deals are seed & A).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2016

In case you don’t understand the urgency, just be aware that according to a recent Forrester report , nearly 95 percent of your competitors are saying that providing a good customer experience is their top strategic priority. Provide coaching and mentoring as well as training.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. And as a result we have bred a culture of companies that have been quite innovative on making money. company called Applied Semantics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2015

There is no rule that marketing needs to report to the founder, or that every startup needs a chief operating officer. Some of the best startup cultures have no hierarchical reporting, yet everyone knows who drives each of the initiatives. Define a legacy for yourself and your company. Culture is not defined by job titles.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

He shut down his company gracefully and even thought it must have felt like a crap sandwich doing so I’ll bet his reputation is still solid with his backers. Early on in my first company I had an employee ask if it was a good time to buy a home. The press who trusted me enough to report on our successes. My employees.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2019

In fact, I just saw a new book supporting this position, “ Decisive Intuition ,” by Rick Snyder, an international business coach who has launched and grown several businesses of his own, as well as helped big companies, including Intel and Anytime Fitness. The venerable Steve Jobs was reportedly in the same category.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 17, 2015

This field combines telecommunications, GPS and other technologies to enable real time reporting on vehicle usage metrics that was not previously possible. Simba Technologies provided a leap forward in this field when they made OLAP reporting available for familiar tools, like Excel. Tools from Car Companies. Smart Phone Apps.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

I have found that my years in a big company have paid huge dividends in this area. For new business leaders who are unfamiliar and uncomfortable with people management, I try to offer an easy to understand process for dealing with situations where a team member or direct report needs to change.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

He says it basically comes down to three key functions: Sets the overall vision and strategy of the company and communicates it to all stakeholders. Recruits, hires, and retains the very best talent for the company. Run great meetings (don’t be a productivity drain on the company). Selling the company.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

That’s why it’s important to revisit your company’s mission from time-to-time. We try to hire deeply analytical associates to can help companies problem solve and who make us better investors. Take some time to reflect on how well defined you believe your company’s sense of purpose is.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 2, 2012

In contrast, Lex Sisney, author of Organizational Physics: The Science of Growing a Business , CEO Coach and Co-founder of Commission Junction has had success compartmentalizing such difficult high-performers. The best way to maximize the performance of a Temperamental Superstar is to make them a sole contributor, with no direct reports.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2014

Whether you’re considering hiring a new employee or as an investor whether you’re looking to do a background check on the founders of a company. I like to get a mix of people who have reported to the candidate, whom the candidate has reported to (2x) and peers. My friend Jason Hirschhorn Tweeted about this today.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Each VC has their own take on which services to provide and mostly they’re free but some smaller VCs charge portfolio companies for use of these services but usually at a cheap cost. Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2017

If you don’t focus on it, you can expect to be one of the 25 percent of CEO turnovers that occur every year from firing or forced retirement, as reported by a recent Harvard study. Coach others on how to get to the next level. Business leadership requirements change just like market requirements. Watch carefully the words you use.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2011

By Ernst Gemassmer Expanding into International is both necessary and positive for every company, including startups, but it has some unique challenges, as I have found out personally, like expected “under the table” payments in dealing with other cultures and bureaucracy. Justice Department and SEC reported imposing over $1.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

But according to a recent book by Adelaide Lancaster and Amy Abrams, “ The Big Enough Company ,” based on years of helping women entrepreneurs, the road to success for women does involve its own unique set of demons. Here is a short list of impacts they commonly reported and all mentors have seen: You feel overwhelmed. Delegating.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

MARCH 9, 2011

Last year, venture capitalists and angels who co-invested with them placed $7 billion into seed and early-stage deals, an 11 percent increase from 2009, according to the most recent PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree report. “Most have a strong desire to mentor and help build companies.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2011

I was once asked by a top executive of a major software company why we were not selling more products in Finland. Companies became creative by selling and trading foreign exchange licenses. I had organized European operations into regions and the country manager for Italy reported to the central European manager based in Germany.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 16, 2009

He also represents sports companies and professional athletes with social media marketing and branding. Guess I'll have to wait until all of LinkedIn Servers get updated but will definitely report back with results. SportsNetworker.com is a site that connects sports professionals in the industry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2017

What every investor, and every customer, is looking for is a company where everyone is focused on the same objectives, the same values, and the same customer needs I just saw some real insights on this challenge in a new book, “ Total Alignment: Tools and Tactics for Streamlining Your Organization ,” by Riaz and Linda Khadem.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2010

I was once asked by a division manager of a major software company why we were not selling more products in Finland. Companies became creative by selling and trading foreign exchange licenses. I had organized European operations into regions and the country manager for Italy reported to the central European manager based in Germany.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

How did the company start? That became our company Hit the Ground Running, which we launched in 2007 to help a number of Fortune 500 clients with our technology and methodologies. One of our hopes, aside from creating a way to package knowledge, is to essentially allow entrepreneurs to create their own publishing company.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 4, 2010

I’ve worked with 30+ early-stage companies in all sorts of capacities (and spoken to many, many more), so I thought it might be worthwhile trying to classify the various ways that I’ve engaged in different technology roles in startups. see When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication?

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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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