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

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

AUGUST 31, 2022

With the multiple technologies of team videos, smartphones, email, and the pervasive Internet facilitating total communication, there is no need for the delay and information loss of multiple hierarchy levels in business. Discourage internal team competition and silos. 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. Innovation, technology, and early adapters. Since that capability is far beyond most every other retailer, there is great risk in competing by price alone.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. This year I got back to the basics of helping founders build strong, high functioning teams. Find her @annawbarber. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Elon Musk , as an example, is impressive in his broad knowledge and interest in electric vehicles, getting humans into space, and new energy technologies. Team members can’t help you overcome any challenge if they don’t understand where you are coming from and why. Provide the resources and training to get the job done.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

If you’re an early-stage entrepreneur, technology has served you well. 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. The barriers to entry when it comes to launching a company require less tension and a lot less capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Provide and seek coach and advocate relationships. The best coaches are people who care about you as a person, without any ulterior motives, and intend to inspire you to be the best that you can be. A good coach is not a critic. Even with all our technology, business is still people-to-people.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

I was in it for the love of working with entrepreneurs on business problems and marveling at technology they had built. I had realized that I didn’t have it within me to be as good of a player as many of them did but I had the skills to help as mentor, coach, friend, sparing partner and patient capital provider.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

But they also take on issues in science, technology and management. Increasingly I find myself engaging executive coaches at companies an trying to help executive teams get 360 degree feedback. The best leaders I know encourage coaches to come in and are willing to listen to feedback about themselves.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2021

A winning linked focus example is to choose a higher purpose common to all cultures, such as protecting the environment, or helping the underprivileged. Today’s complex environments requires the use of innovative systems and technology for timely and reliable feedback from customers and colleagues.

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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. Ask for help in eliminating useless tasks. They need you looking ahead to anticipate what they will need, and providing it before the next crisis, before they must beg for help.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2019

Much has been written recently about the requirement to focus today on the total customer experience, as a competitive edge or even for survival. The latest Apple Watch utilizes this strategy by continually monitoring your heart rhythm, as well as other fitness indicators, with coaching to you on maintaining your health.

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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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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2010

The group--which was started by Richard Koffler and John Morris , two well known investors in Los Angeles--has been trying to help connect CEOs with interesting university and other technology projects. We're looking for inventors interested in commercializing and spinning out their technology into a company.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

This frugality was evidenced by the fact that everyone at Microsoft, even Gates, flew coach until well into the late 1990s. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself." Microsoft’s success is proof that the best technology is not required in order to dominate a market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2015

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 spends 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

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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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2014

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 absorbs 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

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Effective time management skills are often the best competitive edge. Dr. Yager is a real guru on this subject, having been a productivity coach, trainer, and author for many years, and still found time to squeeze out over 30 books, including five related to this subject. See a deadline as something empowering, rather than negative.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2018

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 spends 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

APRIL 26, 2014

Effective time management skills are often the best competitive edge. Dr. Yager is a real guru on this subject, having been a productivity coach, trainer, and author for many years, and still found time to squeeze out over 30 books, including five related to this subject. See a deadline as something empowering, rather than negative.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2016

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

JUNE 19, 2013

You can have the best technology, but if customers don’t know you exist, or they don’t know how your technology solves a real problem for them, your startup will fail. In fact, this article was driven by a startup press release I just saw today, highlighting a startup’s “geo-fencing technology” as a new basis for discount coupons.

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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

APRIL 4, 2013

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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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 9, 2014

Created by filmmakers and video enthusiasts, Jigabot’s team wanted to create a device that would help people catch all the action, while not personally missing any of it. AIMe helps pan (360 degrees) and tilt (120 degrees) a camera, camcorder, smartphone, or even a GoPro to capture your surroundings. The price makes da Vinci 1.0

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Most technology startups seem to be funded by product people or business people. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

We want to invest in early-stage technology enabled startup businesses – upfront in the funding cycle. We try to hire deeply analytical associates to can help companies problem solve and who make us better investors. His name was Chip Kelly and he came off of a very successful stint as the coach of the collegiate Oregon Ducks.

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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., With the help of Visit Rapid City, Logar’s presentation convinced the ICPC Executive Committee to do a site visit.

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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. Of special importance are changes in the following areas: technology, competition and new legislation affecting your planned business. Thus, your initial dream gets turned into your personal vision.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2009

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

APRIL 10, 2011

Our own subsidiary, of a major technology company, started to repair and service competitive products in order to maintain our own technical staff and service capabilities. Corporations were encouraged to export from Brazil to generate foreign currency and they were allowed to keep a portion of the foreign currency.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2019

In my experience as a business advisor, one of the best ways to get all of these, is to publish a book on the technology, the journey, or some relevant lessons learned. In addition, the discipline of producing it, like writing a business plan, will help you immensely in understanding the key elements that drive you and your business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2010

Our own subsidiary, of a major technology company, started to repair and service competitive products in order to maintain our own technical staff and service capabilities. Corporations were encouraged to export from Brazil to generate foreign currency and they were allowed to keep a portion of the foreign currency.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

is a lot more of: Show me how youre going to commercialize this technology, I want to understand how it makes money. Well, that technology came from an L.A. Because its just not that hyper-competitive, Im-hiring-all-your-staff, because-Im-Google environment. Thats not Los Angeles. Okay, thats AdSense. What is happening in L.A.

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