Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

Team members need time, and your support, to attend conferences and professional organizations to stay in touch with colleagues and peers. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

With some coaching and mentoring from other leaders, I was able to do it myself, so I know you can do it too, by committing to the following strategies: Train yourself to always look for positives, not negatives. Optimistic business leaders see value in every new business challenge, rather than stress and risk.

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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

JUNE 24, 2022

The best potential leaders are always seeking new connections at industry conferences, in community relations, and by communicating with key customers and influencers. You need leaders who focus on delivering value to the market and dealing with competitors, addressing customer and competitive needs now and in the long-term.

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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. Having the pitches and showcase as part of the conference is a nice feature for the startups, so the whole thing isn’t just about the pitch. BlackTech Week (Miami, FL).

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Team members need time, and your support, to attend conferences and professional organizations to stay in touch with colleagues and peers. 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.

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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. These days, with easy access to online seminars and many industry conferences, there is no excuse for not attending one or two sessions a year on “futures,” both career and technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2013

Myers, a noted career coach, and author of “ 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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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2011

Myers, a noted career coach, and author of “ 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 during the summer, believing that nobody will be hiring until early fall. Invest in career coaching. According to Ford R. Follow-up with existing connections.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2010

Myers, a noted career coach, and author of “ 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 during the summer, believing that nobody will be hiring until early fall. Invest in career coaching. According to Ford R. Follow-up with existing connections.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 4, 2014

But I would posit that in order to sustainably build great products in an intensely competitive industry with skills shortages – people management is one of the most critical soft skills organizations need. I think as a tech industry we have bred a culture that places more emphasis on product excellence than managing human behavior.

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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., In 2015, the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals were held in Marrakesh, Morocco.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

While Google still gets stellar reviews for pay, perks and advancement, there are also some employees who note growing pains that you’d expect from such a huge company, including the stress associated with a competitive environment. Takeaway: Even the best culture needs to revisit itself to meet a growing company’s team.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

While Google still gets stellar reviews for pay, perks and advancement, there are also some employees who note growing pains that you’d expect from such a huge company, including the stress associated with a competitive environment. Takeaway: Even the best culture needs to revisit itself to meet a growing company’s team.

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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. The challenges for making money and survival in these professional services worlds are different, maybe even tougher.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

They offer leadership conferences, regular content articles on leadership, board pack templates and the like. And there is often competition over marketing activities, fund raising ownership and the like. Kerry will spearhead this initiative.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

I’ve spent hours this week reading about the firing of the head coach and personnel manager of the football team I support – The Philadelphia Eagles. His name was Chip Kelly and he came off of a very successful stint as the coach of the collegiate Oregon Ducks. This is something I try to coach against.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Ask for short conference calls. In Rob’s spare time he always seems to be going to a boxing class or some other competitive, physical activity. When we recommended that Rob get a CEO coach he not only embraced it but craved it and thanked us for suggesting it. If anything we feel indebted to him for his hard work.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Plug and Play San Diego, established in 2013 as a satellite of the Sunnyvale, CA-based incubator, has funneled 15 local startups through the Silicon Valley program after providing some coaching and other services in San Diego.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

In addition to coaching and mentoring, I want to put them in the game of investing into startups. NON: At one of our inaugural Pipeline Fellowship conferences, at the end of the day, a woman approached me and told me how she was skeptical about being an angel investor. Pitching isn’t a zero-sum game.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2019

People who hire consultants and coaches look for evidence of external credibility, such as reviews and referrals, to back up their own judgement of your marketing interactions with them. Successful businesses require the best people to deliver your vision and services one step better than the competition.

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Xconomy

JULY 29, 2016

Those were some of the topics of a question-and-answer panel held at Xconomy’s Robo Madness West 2016 conference last month. This is an example of AI that can understand humans, in both competitive and supportive roles. What are the risks and ethics around AI systems? Begole : What is the future of autonomous defense systems?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

It's also good to talk somewhat about the competition, and why this ideas is different from the others. Mark Suster: Often, the times you have a venture capitalist listening to you, or a potential business partner, is at a conference. If you're one of the ten finalists, you get intense coaching. You're racing between sessions.

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