Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2021

I especially like their summary of six key work-style myths that undermine many business strategies, as well as the energy and commitment of the people who work there. It also attracts more customers. The solution is to hire carefully, and then focus on personal motivators, as well as training and coaching.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2023

It’s all about contributing and being connected to team and company values for improving the lives of customers, or possibly a higher-level purpose, such as saving the environment. Provide coaching and facilitate mentorship from others in the company for growth. and leave time for the answer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

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. In summary, perseverance is essential in the workplace because it allows you to continue working towards your goals even when things get tough, and they will get tough.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2021

I recently saw a great summary of specific guidance on how to build relationships with your leadership teams, to minimize the learning curve experienced by Jobs and many others, in a new book, “ Leadership Levers ,” by Diana Jones. She is a trusted and experienced leadership advisor, executive coach, and author.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2022

Here is a summary of key strategies and conversations that both of us agree will help your organization evolve into the adaptive social system your business needs to survive and thrive today: Energize the team around a shared purpose. The payback in team engagement, as well as customer revenue and loyalty, can be large.

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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. In summary, entrepreneurs need to be especially perceptive and sensitive to business and personal relationships, since they normally work with small, closely-knit teams, on innovative and highly unstructured environments.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2022

I believe these same mindsets are equally applicable to the entrepreneurs I mentor, and all of you small business leaders, so I offer you my summary of the authors’ conclusions, paraphrased here, with my own insights: Be bold in vision, strategy, and resource allocation. Tap the wisdom of elders and the Board to help the business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Every entrepreneur and business leader believes that he or she has the full trust of their team and their customers, and in fact most do in the beginning. I find that visions that includes a higher purpose, such as improving the environment, are particularly powerful in increasing trust with employees and customers alike.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

I found a good summary of the dynamics behind personal business leadership, and how to get there, in a recent book “ Leadership Rigor! ” by Erica Peitler, a well-known leadership performance coach. This is an important step in self-coaching, and in coaching others on the team.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

VCs should be more of a coach than proscriptively telling you what to do. Simply put – I’d be in search of a VC who had an intuitive sense of my product, my customers, my organizational issues, my competitors, etc. I think of VCs as coaches. I call them “ VCs Seagulls.” EQ and Team Leadership?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

I found some help in this regard in a new book, “ Power Your Tribe ,” by Christine Comaford, who has been a business leadership and culture coach for the past 30 years. Instead, you should start with a summary of your goals and objectives for the role, and emphasize the need for a collaborative turnaround plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

I found a good summary of the dynamics behind personal business leadership, and how to get there, in a new book “ Leadership Rigor! ” by Erica Peitler, a well-known leadership performance coach. This is an important step in self-coaching, and in coaching others on the team. Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

In practice it can be a fine line between sparring partner / coach and stepping over the line to brute-force persuasion. So he would allocate say – 20% to sales, 15% to marketing, 20% to eng priorities, 10% to customer support, 10% to ops, 20% to ‘platinum customers’ and maybe 5% directly to me as the CEO.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

The functions of an early-stage board are pretty obvious and well understood: Providing introductions to customers, biz dev partners, recruits, the press, other investors, etc. Over time you start to figure out who you customers are and how to sell to them or how to get them to adopt your products if you’re a consumer-oriented startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

Your historical trading information including financials and a “customer file” which shows the history of your transactions so that investors can run “cohort” analyses Customer reference, personal references, key team members, compensation, cap table, stock option plan, etc. But just putting a customer reference list in a data room?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

As a CEO you never stop needing to go on sales calls (or to work the phones in telesales or customer support) and ceasing to do this as your company grows because you’re focusing on investors, recruiting, PR or whatever is a mistake. Skipping is insidious. The organization gets used to it and adjusts.

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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. In summary, entrepreneurs need to be especially perceptive and sensitive to business and personal relationships, since they normally work with small, closely-knit teams, on innovative and highly unstructured environments.

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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. In summary, entrepreneurs need to be especially perceptive and sensitive to business and personal relationships, since they normally work with small, closely-knit teams, on innovative and highly unstructured environments.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

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. In Summary. Not according to my sources. It led to hiring Eric Schmidt. My guess is both had heavy VC involvement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2010

Here is a summary of the steps I recommend along the way: Turn your dream into a vision. During this process you are looking for affordable space, defining the roles of your team members, defining the product/service, developing initial sales channels and customers. What is the difference between a dream and a vision?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2010

For extroverted people I recommend that entrepreneurs have an “executive summary&# slide up front that cuts to the chase. In this case I recommend the “executive summary&# version but not going into a “deep dive&# on the answer until you hit the detailed slides. It’s in their personality type.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2023

I recall a good summary of how to motivate and train a team to accomplish this in the classic book, “ The Business of Creativity: How to Build the Right Team for Success ,” by Keith Granet. A single marketing coordinator can accelerate your efforts by being the coach and mentoring key members of the team on soft marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. Very customer focused. Summary : In dealing with middle men you get the huge expertise they bring to bear by doing their task on a repeated basis and dealing with the same sets of end customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

I recall a good summary of how to motivate and train a team to accomplish this in the classic book, “ The Business of Creativity: How to Build the Right Team for Success ,” by Keith Granet. A single marketing coordinator can accelerate your efforts by being the coach and mentoring key members of the team on soft marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2016

I just saw a good summary of how to motivate and train your team to accomplish this in a new book, “ The Business of Creativity: How to Build the Right Team for Success ,” by Keith Granet. A single marketing coordinator can accelerate your efforts by being the coach and mentoring key members of the team on soft marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

Executive Summary. If you want to watch the video version summary of my advice on fund raising it’s here. These include building products, recruiting, managing your finances, marketing, selling, getting feedback from customers and … fund raising. But the summary for you is: - get an intro. Tell a friend!

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