Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2016

In my view, the most effective entrepreneurs are those with a background of an array of real-life experiences, both positive and negative, as well as good academic and coaching activities. Here are my thoughts on the right focus at a college or university: Take entrepreneurship courses, but major in a more specific discipline.

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APRIL 27, 2014

Seed investors are aplenty and of course they need downstream money to fuel their early-stage bets. Of course these are great places to network with other investors, meet great entrepreneurs and keep your connections strong with senior execs at larger companies like Yahoo!, Of course I would like to be in every great deal ever done.

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JANUARY 22, 2014

So I thought I’d write about out with what I would look for in a VC knowing what I know now and why. VCs should be more of a coach than proscriptively telling you what to do. Of course it is super helpful if a VC can drop you in to important people for business development, recruiting, PR, sales and eventually M&A.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

In my view, the most effective entrepreneurs are those with a background of an array of real-life experiences, both positive and negative, as well as good academic and coaching activities. Here are my thoughts on the right focus at a college or university: Take entrepreneurship courses, but major in a more specific discipline.

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MARCH 23, 2015

So part of playing an effective coach is helping the team to see the answer for themselves. Fred has of course been a public mentor to us all with his market-defining terminology that he popularized including “freemium” and “mobile first.” I remember writing about online video nearly 5 years ago.

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JANUARY 1, 2016

But of course all of these things are intertwined. Obviously you need to be mentally flexible enough to spot if your instincts were wrong and a change of course is necessary. 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.

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APRIL 10, 2014

If you’re an early investor like I am that often means writing the first $2-3 million check into a business that previously had either survived on fumes or on a $500,000 angel round. Of course I’m not preaching crazy, irrational spend or having Kid Rock at your next company party. You can do them all yourself, of course.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2012

I plan to write about it early next year when we’re all through. Throughout the course of last year I never had more than $8,000 in my account. . Of course I do! If you have a chance to be on court and shooting 3-pointers as the game clock is winding down OF COURSE you still want to be on the court. But he learned.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Executives in an enterprise usually don’t write their own memos, contracts, and certainly don’t schedule their own meetings. Training courses are required. Before stepping into a new role, you count on the company providing you with in-house or contracted training courses for the basics, like project management or people management.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

So I know I’m getting myself into a bit of trouble by writing this. If they’re not running their business then perhaps the wrong person was picked as CEO or perhaps they need more mentorship / coaching to better allocate their time. It’s very common for startup companies to have COO’s.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

They write into their investment documents that they will occupy a seat on the board for as long as they are invested in the company, thinking of this as a protection for their investment and tool for them to influence growth. Of course they should not. All other board functions are secondary.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Executives in an enterprise usually don’t write their own memos, contracts, and certainly don’t schedule their own meetings. Training courses are required. Before stepping into a new role, you count on the company providing you with in-house or contracted training courses for the basics, like project management or people management.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2011

Executives in an enterprise usually don’t write their own memos, contracts, and certainly don’t schedule their own meetings. Training courses are required. Before stepping into a new role, you count on the company providing you with in-house or contracted training courses for the basics, like project management or people management.

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JULY 19, 2015

Of course that’s true. I’ve tried over the years to write many times about the realism of the downsides of being an entrepreneur because there is a complete cognitive dissidence between what you read about yourself in the press and what you feel internally about where you’re at in the journey.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

The integration of massively open online courses (MOOCs) makes strategic sense, which is likely why LinkedIn acquired Lynda for $1.5 The average cost per webinar ranges from $39-59 with longer online courses (2-8 weeks) landing somewhere between $99-799. making connections, looking for jobs, staying up on news, etc.)

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2017

Leaders in an enterprise soon forget how to write contracts, manage cash flow, or even how to schedule their own time and events. Rely on training courses and coaching for new roles. Second, the list of non-entrepreneurial habits that you pick up in a large corporation gets bigger and harder to break.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2010

Executives in an enterprise usually don’t write their own memos, contracts, and certainly don’t schedule their own meetings. Training courses are available. Before stepping into a new role, you count on the company providing you with in-house or contracted training courses for the basics, like project management or people management.

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MARCH 2, 2021

It’s March 1st as I write this*. I hope that if you see yourself in any of thee archetypes below you can see a plan for staying the course and having a successful 2021. How you eat less and eat better is, of course, the hard part. The year is two months in. Anybody would forgive you if your plan slipped. End of story.

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MAY 4, 2013

Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow. We are judging how well you are coached on stage. They do this because they have amazing skills at writing business plans. I spent time on college campuses. I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). Do you have good quips? ” Meh.

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MAY 25, 2013

In the original version of his post, Andy writes. And Coach Campbell. I’ve heard directly from top executives that Jeff Bezos (in my opinion the most talented person in the tech industry) has received his fair share of VC coaching in the early years. And let the entrepreneur decide the course of action.

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APRIL 6, 2014

Plus, if she does have areas where we could coach her on improvement it would help to know that coming in.” “Everybody has negatives” So you’ve started that glowing interview and learned that Stacy was well-liked, independent, achievement oriented, blah blah blah. You expected no less.

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MAY 4, 2013

Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow. We are judging how well you are coached on stage. They do this because they have amazing skills at writing business plans. I spent time on college campuses. I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). Do you have good quips? ” Meh.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2022

After many extended coaching sessions with entrepreneurs and small business owners, I’ve found myself wondering if my value-add was anything more than you could get by self-coaching. It helps to partner with and coach others. Celebrate your wins, keep a flexible mindset, and raise your own bar often.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Write it down…. When I was running FUEL, I really did not have advisors – I did have a coach the entire time, who was a sounding board, but we worked on more esoteric concepts like ‘creating space’ (much longer convo) and on interpersonal relations and how to inspire growth, etc… That worked. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2011

I’ve started writing up some of those sales & marketing lessons and I plan to continue to build that section out over time. So I did want any rational person who wants to improve does – I hired a coach. Of course that’s not true. “Sure, they can sell at 50% of our price.

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DECEMBER 31, 2020

June 2019 (left) and November 2020 (right) I’ve been reluctant to write this blog post because historically I don’t like talking about weight. Yes, of course in moderation and certainly not every day. I’ve been reluctant to write about weight in part because I don’t want to sound self righteous. you name it. How to Get Started?

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

I finally got around to writing it having read Fred Wilson’s post about what a CEO does. Naturally the countries reacted negatively to reporting to a centralized figure in the UK (and of course to no longer reporting to the CEO). Both are basically people businesses.

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JULY 19, 2011

You can certainly get coaching from your VC on how to play the negotiations since they do it more often than you do. But when they’re trying to get David Pogue, Walt Mossberg or Kara Swisher to write a story for you, they’re also thinking about their other clients – now and in the future. PR firms are the same.

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DECEMBER 9, 2013

Every time I think to write a post about this I figure the most recent board meeting I’ve attended will think it’s about them so I don’t bother. So I’m going to write a series of board meetings posts unrelated to anybody or maybe an amalgamation of them all. This should take the least amount of time possible.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Sure, of course I am. But it’s PacMan.&# I forgot to get him on record on the show, but Gregg writes all the lyrics for the big presidential videos they’ve done – you can see where the humor of JibJab comes from. Any takers in a trade for helping do some write-ups against whatever you want? Gregg says at $9.99

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JUNE 29, 2011

And of course hedge funds and growth-equity funds can’t resist trying to get earlier-stage exposure again. Many LPs want to write checks of $10 million or $25 million because they themselves have billions of dollars to manage. And the more “small checks&# they write, the more VC managers they have to manage.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2016

Of course labels are all too easy to throw out and simplify or stereotype the beliefs of other people. he coached me and my 3 siblings in basketball and soccer and more. I also felt I couldn’t just start writing about entrepreneurship again with writing a transitional post like this to turn over a new leaf.

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