Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 4, 2014

I think as a tech industry we have bred a culture that places more emphasis on product excellence than managing human behavior. Of course it makes no sense to have great people management and a crappy product. When they started their company of course they had to pick one to be CEO and the other to have a different title.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2015

Of course, this requires some discipline and focus on your part, as well as the willingness to trust team members and allow them to do their jobs. I have personally used this approach in leading startups as well as large organizations, in highly technical roles as well as business development and marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2017

Of course, mentoring is not new – it’s been the favored way to learn arts and crafts since way back in the middle ages. Yet in this age of technology, many seem to favor tools and data to get the edge, or can’t find the time to talk to real people. Regularly review progress and adjust focus (Review and Renewal).

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Good entrepreneurs can admit when their course of action was wrong and learn from it. The technology team disagrees on direction and wants resolutions. Yes, I know it’s my job as the CEO to be the coach for people and that’s fine. There’s a guy in Los Angeles that I met at several tech networking events.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Reviewing financial & operational performance. You may have raised money across multiple rounds of investors from 3-4 different VCs and of course most of them would like board seats or at a minimum board observer rights. Defections of large swaths of talented employees due to low morale. Mentorship. As You Start to Mature.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2017

Of course, nobody really knows all of what tomorrow will bring, in terms of globalization, digital technology, or demographic shifts, but most experts agree that certain elements are already obvious, and things must be done today to get your business ready in time. Data technology facilitates more fact-based decisions.

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Company Companies Artificial Inteligence Technical Review 55

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2014

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. Of course that’s not true. ” They want technical sales to help with customer objections. My first startup was no different.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow. I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). And they have access to some of the most talented technology entrepreneurs so this is a worthy goal for them. We are judging how well you are coached on stage. I attended events.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

It is a crowdsourced, review portal. It could be picking a bad co-founder, picking a bad technology, setting up the wrong kind of structure,(or) picking the wrong type of investor. At the time, there were about 25,000 technology businesses started every year. Nowadays it''s more like, 75,000. Instead) we focus on. seven exits.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2014

I would start by asking the candidate, “How did you decide on these five people” as part of your review process. Most people delay reference calls until that point both due to expediency of time (why make phone calls unless you think you might hire the person?) You expected no less. Having an accomplice.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Of course, that mindset has to translate into a set of specific actions that other people recognize as going above and beyond the fixed mindset. A mindset of simplicity is what it takes to overcome a customer’s natural fear of change and new technology. Traditional push marketing is losing effectiveness due to information overload.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow. I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). And they have access to some of the most talented technology entrepreneurs so this is a worthy goal for them. We are judging how well you are coached on stage. I attended events.

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Venture Capital Startup Pricing Invest 347

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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Coach Technical Review Carson Networking 75

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. Of course that’s not true. They want technical sales to help with customer objections. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch.

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Sales Startup Pricing Customer 316

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Due to the language and culture issues in Europe we opted for a country structure with an MD in each country and local sales, marketing & customers support staff. Naturally the countries reacted negatively to reporting to a centralized figure in the UK (and of course to no longer reporting to the CEO).

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 9, 2013

Knowing how much playing sports shaped the course of her life, it pained her to see these girls denied the opportunity. Due to the sedentary nature of girls in these countries there is a high risk for diabetes and obesity. This baffled Katie. She realized she saw local boys playing everywhere, but no girls. The seed was planted.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Of course, at all levels of an organization or business, there are opportunities for accountability that can make or break your career or your leadership perception in the eyes of others. Generously give credit to others where credit is due. Be available for mentoring and coaching to others.

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Activity Organization Mentor Training 109

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2015

I often tell people I learned more about how to become an entrepreneur by being president of my fraternity than any college course I ever took or any paid job I ever had. There wasn’t any such thing as skipping the line or raising money to start a tech company. Of course it was infinitely more challenging.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The creators of the renowned StartupWeekend — a place where random ad hoc teams work frantically for 54 hours to build a demo of a new business and then complete for fame and fortune — have picked up where StartupWeekend left off and have birthed a new course for entrepreneurs who need to level up called StartupWeekend Next.

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Class Mentor Startup UCLA 98

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2017

I’m a strong believer that a great team can achieve success with a less impressive product offering, while potentially disruptive technology often goes nowhere due to a team with an uninspired work ethic. For your own business, the right time to address expected norms is during coaching and before hiring.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

Of course much of it is conflicting. And of course I’ve sat on the other side of the table: As a VC. I get approached about clean tech or biotech periodically – I don’t focus on these. In ad tech there’s Seth Levine at Foundry Group and both Dana Settle & Ian Sigelow at Greycroft.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 8, 2011

A blog with our reviews of the scene, locations, etc. We started seeing a demand for what we were doing and from there began throwing singles parties, doing match making, and date coaching. Useable of course, but it doesn’t have to be perfect.” Speaking to the LA tech scene as that’s where I am.

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