Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In reality, their effectiveness is usually more related to how well they develop their work relationships with peers and business leaders. More importantly, we all need to develop the right relationships, and actively avoid those types that are not right for the business, or not right for our career at a particular point in time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In my experience advising businesses, large and small, I have often been surprised by the level of complacency and general malaise I find in the ranks, with a resultant direct loss of productivity and competitiveness. Develop metrics to monitor work intensity. Let that be part of their job satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2023

Every business organization, large or small, has a variety of individual and team member types that factor into your ability to innovate and change the business to meet evolving customer needs and competition. Your contribution can help a number of other personas overcome doubts and concern, and validate visions with real data.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2020

In reality, their effectiveness is usually more related to how well they develop their work relationships with peers and business leaders. More importantly, we all need to develop the right relationships, and actively avoid those types that are not right for the business, or not right for our career at a particular point in time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2022

Many leaders do this today by supporting and promoting a higher-level purpose, beyond profits, such as helping the disadvantaged, sustaining the environment, or Conscious Capitalism. Your role is to provide this enablement, through listening to their needs, and providing personal coaching and mentoring as required.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The first electric bulb was actually invented by Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, who demonstrated the concept, but gave up trying to develop a practical product after only three attempts. She is a former Fortune 50 executive and innovation thought leader who developed her own actionable system to overcome obstacles.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Competitive (Athlete: skier & rowed at Princeton, hates losing at everything she does). Operating experience (Helped run parts of CitySearch & UrbanSpoon, tons of product management experience, Board of Hatch Labs which helped spawn Tinder). She is a coach and mentor to team members.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

In 2006, a passion to help startups grew into Tech Cocktail , a company whose mission was to showcased burgeoning companies in bars around the country. Meet some of the amazing organizations that partner with the Startup of the Year program, and could be a valuable resource for you to help build your business.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

It’s insanely competitive to get into our industry so most have degrees from institutions like Stanford, Harvard, Wharton and University of Chicago (blatant plug ;-). VCs should be more of a coach than proscriptively telling you what to do. I would call their portfolio companies and ask how helpful or not they’ve been.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

This year I got back to the basics of helping founders build strong, high functioning teams. And a host of interesting companies in last mile have cropped up to give the Amazon ecosystem some competition, like two companies from the last Techstars LA class - Shipsi and PRZM. What was the biggest lesson you learned this year?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

It is not uncommon for founders to fight amongst themselves or teams to develop silos that simple can’t stomach talking with other groups so they avoid human contact and revert to flaming wars on email or Slack. Increasingly I find myself engaging executive coaches at companies an trying to help executive teams get 360 degree feedback.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2019

Image via Wikipedia The challenge for all of us in business is to improve competitiveness by improving employee productivity and reducing costs. Sometimes this means working on less defined tasks, raising their level of autonomy, or requiring the development of new skills. Ask for help in eliminating useless tasks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

I expect questions about how a business works, or what are best practices, but I really can’t help you with removing doubts on your abilities, or providing a sure-fire idea and formula for success in business. If necessary, use a strengths coach, and always start a business which highlights your signature strengths.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2022

This is a tough challenge for every coach and mentor. Embrace the real you as your competitive advantage. To thrive as a business leader, you need to assume there will be change and crises, and develop resilience to bounce back and adapt. Form collaborative relationships to help and support you.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

He had an idea for a startup that would help consumers better book service jobs and would take on Service Magic, which he believed had a business model that could be disrupted. I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan. In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. Nice sweep!

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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. Then your intuitive forces will help you reach a balanced decision.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

I expect questions about how a business works, or what are best practices, but I really can’t help you with removing doubts on your abilities, or providing a sure-fire idea and formula for success in business. If necessary, use a strengths coach, and always start a business which highlights your signature strengths.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Mark noted that even if an entrepreneur does not become a master developer, by simply understanding the software development process, they will be a more effective startup leader. This frugality was evidenced by the fact that everyone at Microsoft, even Gates, flew coach until well into the late 1990s. " [Tweet this quote].

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

For example, in the sales silo of my former organization, it was common to point to marketing or development as the source of a sales issue, but communication across to these organizations took forever, and agreeing on a common solution was difficult. One solution here is to hire help rather than helpers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Understanding where your VC partner sits in their respective fund and where their fund is in the cycle of its investment lifecycle will help you understand your VCs behavior. In addition to helping manage the board Chris also helps represent the interests of the angel investors / common stock holders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2016

In reality, their effectiveness is usually more related to how well they develop their work relationships with peers and business leaders. More importantly, we all need to develop the right relationships, and actively avoid those types that are not right for the business, or not right for our career at a particular point in time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2016

Some coaches and leaders seem to have the magic for bringing out the best in everyone. When hiring or inheriting new team members , it’s important to discuss their strengths, development areas, and blind spots early. Help team members develop a plan for their future. Make new skill development an ongoing priority.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2013

In reality, their effectiveness is usually more related to how well they develop their work relationships with peers and business leaders. Unlike the mentor, who is a coach and teacher, the advocate inspires you to be the best that you can be. First they need to decipher correctly every relationship as a workship, friendship, or foe.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2013

Some coaches and leaders seem to have the magic for bringing out the best in everyone. When hiring or inheriting new team members, it’s important to discuss their strengths, development areas, and blind spots early. Help team members develop a plan for their future. Develop future leaders early.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2017

Most business leaders today realize that smart management of scarce resources is the key to competitive success. Every organization needs a talent pipeline that holds leaders at all levels accountable for identifying and developing internal difference makers, and nurturing networks of external talent.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

I remember a book from a while back by Amilya Antonetti, titled “ The Recipe: A Fable for Leaders and Teams ” which illustrates the key concepts with stories and specific guidance on how to develop your natural leadership style. Change is the only constant in business, so make it your competitive advantage. Embrace change.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

By going on sales calls you pick up directly the feedback of what customers want and also what they’re telling you about competition. It can be harder and take more time to coach your VP Marketing to get his staff doing what you think is right than just telling them yourself. This is invaluable in helping the management team.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I believe that it is part of the DNA of an entrepreneur – being so competitive that you’re practically sick when you lose. They’re competitive. It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits. We helped the write out their requirements for a system.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I believe that it is part of the DNA of an entrepreneur – being so competitive that you’re practically sick when you lose. They’re competitive. It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits. We helped the write out their requirements for a system.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Some coaches and leaders seem to have the magic for bringing out the best in everyone. When hiring or inheriting new team members, it’s important to discuss their strengths, development areas, and blind spots early. Help team members develop a plan for their future. Make new skill development an ongoing priority.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

We try to hire deeply analytical associates to can help companies problem solve and who make us better investors. So we like to behave like we don’t know any better than you – we can just bring an outside perspective to help spar you and make you a better decision-maker through the process. That’s healthy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2011

I remember a book from a while back by Amilya Antonetti, titled “ The Recipe: A Fable for Leaders and Teams ” which illustrates the key concepts with stories and specific guidance on how to develop your natural leadership style. Change is the only constant in business, so make it your competitive advantage. Embrace change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

It also helps to create office events for family members and local community groups. They need incentives to investigate market trends and competitive actions, as well as continuous communication of the bigger picture of the business and current objectives. Encourage networking. Reward success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2013

I found some help from marketing coach David Newman’s new book “ Do It! Be passionate about what you do, but develop a really strong plan, and a strong plan B too. The only actions that create results are those that make you stand out above the crowd, attract, engage, and win more customers than your competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2010

With the help of trusted friends and associates you can now convert the vision into a written plan with a definitive strategy. Now is the time to develop tactics to support your strategy. Of special importance are changes in the following areas: technology, competition and new legislation affecting your planned business.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

So I did want any rational person who wants to improve does – I hired a coach. there is a nascent industry to try and help you with this, too. Don’t get my wrong – a great looking product can really help support a sale. Sure, you need to be competitive on price. We have 12 developers and they have 3.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

most Seed or A round deals will be done by an investor in your region so that should help you to focus. He’s focused on that sector (not exclusively but predominantly) and therefore has an amazing network at large financial services firms to help you with business development. Other investors have national practices.

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