Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2014

” 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. Customers seldom buy on price.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The only “sustainable competitive advantage” in business is self-awareness. Effective advisors and boards are most helpful in these times, when the tough questions are less apparent but critical. Self-awareness helps you achieve balance between these tendencies, and be open to insights from others. It’s a recipe for disaster.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2021

Based on my own years of experience helping new businesses grow, I’d like to offer my own summary of some key lower-level action items, which I believe every business professional and entrepreneur can learn and practice to their advantage: Show ambition and a sense of urgency in every role. Create innovative change from existing resources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2021

Myers, a noted career coach, and author of the classic book, “ Get The Job You Want, Even When No One’s Hiring ,” many job seekers and career changers make the mistake of halting all their efforts as summer approaches, believing that nobody will be hiring until early fall. Invest in career coaching. According to Ford R.

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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. It helps you figure out what you can do in a business, what roles are available, what might be my future here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2021

In these days of rapid change, the pandemic, and worldwide competition, you need to make sure your entire team is customer-focused, innovative, and always looking around the corner for the next big thing. Find folks who are customer-centric and sensitive to competition. The right people will recognize the big picture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2022

I believe these will really help anyone recognize great leaders, and even more importantly, accelerate their own entrepreneur leadership transformation: Demonstrates a burning ambition and a burning platform (fire metaphor). Works with other team members on mutual aspirations (coach metaphor). Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2021

However, I’m convinced that you can mitigate many of these anxieties by your actions, so I was pleased to see similar insights in a new book, “ Anxiety at Work: 8 Strategies to Help Teams Build Resilience, Handle Uncertainty, and Get Stuff Done.” Don’t be afraid to deliver fair, tough coaching. Show humility and own your mistakes.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 11, 2021

Linktree leads the space, securing a recent $45 million Series B raise to build out e-commerce features, but Beacons boasts competitive creator monetization tools with just a $6 million seed round in May. We decided to go with this model because we really want to have a relationship where we help the creators really make money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2023

These authors bring a wealth of knowledge from their decades of practicing executive coaching and psychology, as well as business employment law, with real companies both before and during the transition. Help your team generate team rituals and encourage networking. Coaching – Practice active listening and feedback.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

Whether the partner is a supplier looking to gain a lock on your business as it grows or a customer looking to create a competitive barrier through use of your product, such an investment typically carries fewer restrictions than from a professional investor and less oversight. The post Need money? first appeared on BERKONOMICS.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Unlike the mentor, who is a coach and teacher, the advocate inspires you to be the best that you can be. The trailblazer is not overly competitive, but always is a few steps ahead and enjoys setting an example that you are inspired by, or motivated to follow. Workship - Trailblazer. What goes around almost always comes around.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2022

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

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. These metrics are also the best way to gauge when your team needs more help, and identifying strong and weak contributors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2021

People-centric leaders realize that the right motivated and accountable people are their real competitive advantage. Your team, properly selected, trained, and engaged, can focus on tomorrow’s requirements, learn from mistakes, and implement the constant improvements required to stay competitive.

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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

JULY 4, 2021

The last thing they can afford is to waste any of these, but in my mentoring and coaching activities, I see it happening all too often. Waste in a startup is any activity that burns resources, but creates no value or competitive advantage in the eyes of customers. Hire real help and learn to delegate. Lack of communication.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2019

I believe these will really help anyone recognize great leaders, and even more importantly, accelerate their own entrepreneur leadership transformation: Demonstrates a burning ambition and a burning platform (fire metaphor). Works with other team members on mutual aspirations (coach metaphor). Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2022

in sociology, and is a coach and speaker on work issues and friendship. Positive workplace relationships can help balance some difficult issues you are facing outside of work. Can be a competitive advantage. Competition over salary, promotions, and position. by Jan Yager, who has a Ph.D. Offer support through tough times.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2023

For example, I once had a business associate who loved to help his peers, which is a positive attribute, until he was unable to complete his own commitments on time, and his career was in jeopardy. Help others who have the potential for helping you. You become the winner when you outwit your competition.

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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

AUGUST 19, 2023

These leaders not only recognize team members who have high potential, but they willingly and selflessly customize their coaching to what these special protégés really need. Measure by relationships as well as competitiveness. This is a win-win approach, since it often helps people accomplish more than they ever thought possible.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 11, 2012

Vince Lombardi is widely considered the best football coach of all time, and ultimately may be the greatest coach in the history of all sports. Coach Lombardi put teamwork first (which is why we did, too). As probably the most famous football coach of all time, it seems to have worked.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2022

She provides some great guidance, based on coaching experience and a doctorate in clinical psychology, on recognizing and resolving the most troubling management issues for leaders in all stages of an organization: I’m a good leader. A good fight in business is called healthy competition. Why does a good fight sometimes go bad?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2022

Discourage internal team competition and silos. In this age of world-wide markets, you need all the help you can get to attract loyal customers. You need to be a mentor and coach on a regular basis, rather than follow a formal appraisal process that everyone dreads. Simplify the feedback sharing process for you and them.

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Berkonomics

MAY 16, 2019

Walmart succeeds because it has changed the game with its suppliers, actually partnering with them to help drive costs down so that prices can truly be lower at the store level. Coach, Bentley, Patek Philippe, and Chanel are brands defined by elegance, not feature-functionality and certainly not by being the low-priced competitor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Unlike the mentor, who is a coach and teacher, the advocate inspires you to be the best that you can be. The trailblazer is not overly competitive, but always is a few steps ahead and enjoys setting an example that you are inspired by, or motivated to follow. Workship - Trailblazer. What goes around almost always comes around.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Team members can’t help you overcome any challenge if they don’t understand where you are coming from and why. These days, customers as well as team members, need to be able to relate to a higher purpose for your business, such as protecting the environment, or helping the disadvantaged. Small teams are often most effective.

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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

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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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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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

You need to take responsibility for selling your value to the right people, as well as building relationships with leaders who can help you. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

Then, he'll need to patent it and create a plan to show opportunity, competition, and financial projections. I find the best business plans are not books, but may actually should start as a one-page “elevator pitch” that succinctly encompasses your business goals, problems and solution, opportunity, competition, and business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 4, 2020

These leaders not only recognize team members who have high potential, but they willingly and selflessly customize their coaching to what these special protégés really need. Measure by relationships as well as competitiveness. This is a win-win approach, since it often helps people accomplish more than they ever thought possible.

Oracle 124

Oracle Organization Examples Coach 124

Tech.Co

MARCH 5, 2015

Susan is a startup coach and the founder of Givelocity, a social network for giving that offers a new spin on crowdfunding for good. She later joined forces with the founding team at PayPal to help launch the influential online payments service. She’s been on the founding team of 9 startups, six with successful exits.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

The debt market has pretty much shut down for people, though there is some money coming out of the SBAs that have been somewhat helpful. Investors are very focused on diligence, on business models that make sense, and those companies that have a definite competitive advantage and defensibility to what they're doing.

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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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