Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2021

It must be understandable, written down, and verifiable, with regular measurements and metrics to make it real, benchmarked against the competition. A well-designed service delivery process will make you easy to do business with. Train and coach continuously. Make your service deliver process “happy.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2022

As a business advisor and investor in new startups, I see how difficult it is to make any process work, no matter how well designed, if the team is dysfunctional. Priority is placed on employee mentoring and coaching. On the other hand, I see teams with almost no process that are tremendously productive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

The author’s focus is the world of architecture and design, but I’m convinced that the principles and strategy outlined are equally important to every new business or entrepreneurial effort: Instill pride. A single marketing coordinator can accelerate your efforts by being the coach and mentoring key members of the team on soft marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2022

They skimp on the design of their website, procrastinate on the rollout to make sure the product is perfect, and get so excited about technology features that they forget about creating value for customers. I like the guidance from marketing coach David Newman’s classic book “ Do It! Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

By contrast, Edison persevered and designed a working light bulb after thousands of failures. Don’t be hesitant to use coaches, mentors, and other resources to test and improve your image by others, and your perceptions of business realities and biases. He went on to start many successful companies, including General Electric.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

His challenge is to focus on one market, with a specific design, cost, and price. Then, he'll need to patent it and create a plan to show opportunity, competition, and financial projections. I have tried to convince him the general idea alone does not make a business. Yes, there are a lot of bridges to cross.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

BlackTech Week was created in 2014, and in four short years, they’ve gained over 2700 participants, 150 speakers, and 3 pitch competitions. Driving funding to early-stage startups and small businesses is what we do here and being a part of the Startup of the Year Competition was a no-brainer for us. BlackTech Week (Miami, FL).

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2019

As a business advisor and investor in new startups, I see how difficult it is to make any process work, no matter how well designed, if the team is dysfunctional. Priority is placed on employee mentoring and coaching. On the other hand, I see teams with almost no process that are tremendously productive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2016

The author’s focus is the world of architecture and design, but I’m convinced that the principles and strategy outlined are equally important to every new business or entrepreneurial effort: Instill pride. A single marketing coordinator can accelerate your efforts by being the coach and mentoring key members of the team on soft marketing.

Marketing 89

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2019

They skimp on the design of their website, procrastinate on the rollout to make sure the product is perfect, and get so excited about technology features that they forget about creating value for customers. I like the guidance from marketing coach David Newman’s classic book “ Do It! Marty Zwilling.

Marketing 97

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2017

As a business advisor and investor in new startups, I see how difficult it is to make any process work, no matter how well designed, if the team is dysfunctional. Priority is placed on employee mentoring and coaching. On the other hand, I see teams with almost no process that are tremendously productive.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

com) � backed by local investors Rincon Venture Partners and Bonfire Ventures�is helping to solve that problem, with its career pathing software designed for helping employees at large enterprises figure out what's next. You can find a mentor, a coach, a project, or experience, to help you prepare for the role you are looking for.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2013

It must be understandable, written down, and verifiable, with regular measurements and metrics to make it real, benchmarked against the competition. A well-designed service delivery process will make you easy to do business with. Train and coach continuously. Make your service deliver process “happy.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2017

They skimp on the design of their website, procrastinate on the rollout to make sure the product is perfect, and get so excited about technology features that they forget about creating value for customers. I like the guidance from marketing coach David Newman’s classic book “ Do It! Marty Zwilling.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 9, 2014

The printer itself is a very simple design that requires no assembly at all. New or existing 3D models can also be customized and uploaded with new designs for other to use and share. It’s a button-less, tilt navigation design coupled with a heart rate monitor and other data tracking capabilities.

Pricing 72

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

It designs its own glasses, and sells directly to customers, cutting out the middleman and keeping prices low. Related: Design Your Office to Fulfill Employees’ Most Basic Needs. Yet, Facebook has the same struggles as similar companies: a highly competitive industry leads to a sometimes stressful and competitive workplace.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

It designs its own glasses, and sells directly to customers, cutting out the middleman and keeping prices low. Related: Design Your Office to Fulfill Employees’ Most Basic Needs. Yet, Facebook has the same struggles as similar companies: a highly competitive industry leads to a sometimes stressful and competitive workplace.

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Examples Company Companies Google 100

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan. In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. I think it’s a beautifully designed site and product. The company was called Red Beacon. I was standing with him when he won the TechCrunch 50 award. Nice sweep! So there you have it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2014

They skimp on the design of their website, procrastinate on the rollout to make sure the product is perfect, and get so excited about technology features that they forget about creating value for customers. I like the guidance from marketing coach David Newman’s recent book “ Do It! Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Yet, according to statistics from the Small Business Association (SBA), over half of new businesses offer something else - personal professional services, including consulting, business coaching, and advisory services. Shape your business by design, not by default. Picking a niche is another good way to focus.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2013

They skimp on the design of their website, procrastinate on the rollout to make sure the product is perfect, and get so excited about technology features that they forget about creating value for customers. I found some help from marketing coach David Newman’s new book “ Do It! Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Marketing Social Media Technical Review 103

Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

In 2016, the renowned international university programming tournament — attended by student competitors, coaches, and parents — took place in Phuket, Thailand. But longtime ICPC student coach Antonette Logar, Ph.D., In 2015, the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals were held in Marrakesh, Morocco.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2013

Design your organization for what it needs to win. This includes the specific work your startup must do, the capabilities you need to build for a competitive advantage, and the career path for team members to bring this to life. Training is coaching, rather than criticizing, to improve the outcome next time. Train all the time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2012

Design your organization for what it needs to win. This includes the specific work your startup must do, the capabilities you need to build for a competitive advantage, and the career path for team members to bring this to life. Training is coaching, rather than criticizing, to improve the outcome next time. Train all the time.

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Training Startup Study Customer 109

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth. Other firms like Google bring massive resources to design or engineering and as as corporate VC can offer things normal VC firms can’t offer. Kerry will spearhead this initiative.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 6, 2015

I was, however, very competitive when I was young, and had played football in high school well enough to get scholarship offers from what would be called division 1 schools in today’s world. 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.

Mentor 100

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Myself, I am now working with a medical ultrasound technology firm, working directly with the researcher and a design firm. It's trying to determine if there is a viable way to go to market, and also deal with competitive issues. Where is this talent coming from? I might be jumping ahead, but what we are finding so far is success.

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Xconomy

JULY 29, 2016

For consumer robots, though, people want to talk naturally and we need to design casual dialogs that make it easy to express desires without having to give every small detail. Why not just design them to be nice all the time? This is an example of AI that can understand humans, in both competitive and supportive roles.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

I faced the same challenge not being able to form a team because most people joined the competition with friends that they had already planned on working with. It was a wonderful feeling to win in a competition for the 3 rd time in a row, but much more rewarding that finally it was for my idea, creating something from my vision.

Startup 100

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

When I was reading the Fab.com website I noticed that the CEO refers to Fab’s “one thing” as being design. They’re the place focused on design. They think design wins. One of the best sales coaches I ever worked with used to talk to me about “testing prospects.” Test interest.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

is the second largest designated market area (DMA) in the country, so youre starting with a natural talent pool of very interesting people, and also, a market from which to sell your goods and services into. Because its just not that hyper-competitive, Im-hiring-all-your-staff, because-Im-Google environment. startup scene so hot.

Los Angeles 50

Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50