Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2018

Since I’m not a life coach, I can’t comment on the broader implications, but in my role as advisor to many startups, I do often find myself recommending a focus on many of his key points, which I will paraphrase here: Think in terms of action. Expand your definition of the problem. Use brainstorming for a range of solutions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2016

Since I’m not a life coach, I can’t comment on the broader implications, but in my role as advisor to many startups, I do often find myself recommending a focus on many of his key points, which I will paraphrase here: Think in terms of action. Expand your definition of the problem. Use brainstorming for a range of solutions.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I started in 2007 with a thesis that my primary investment decision would be about the team (70%) and only afterward about the market opportunity (30%). You have to decide how hard to help with downstream marketing for your deals. You have to decide where to lean in on follow-on rounds. You have to deal with CEOs who resign.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

By definition, second-stage ventures generally have 10 to 99 employees and/or $750,000 to $50 million in revenue, and see that as just the beginning. Leaders are needed to coach each salesperson, keep the team on message, and spur new growth and goals. Separate marketing from sales for further leverage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2019

The biggest challenge these days doesn’t seem to be in starting a new business, but sustaining it against the onslaught of market changes and new competitors that emerge every day. That requires trust and respect from all, as well as constant coaching and development to keep them committed to following you.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 28, 2010

That’s the classic definition of Grin Fucking. We called it “integrated strategy.&# I actually think from a marketing perspective it could have been brilliant. But we couldn’t leave it as just a market positioning experience. Unsurprisingly, this one way best. The title IS the post. They were intwined.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2014

” So I did want any rational person who wants to improve does – I hired a coach. By definition an MVP (minimum viable product) means there’s room for improvement. Features don’t win or lose sales – especially in nascent markets. He taught me much – most of it unconventional. Or whatever.

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2012

It's a really big, passionate market, and there's a need for connective tissue between families and the kids involved. It's a very fragmented market, and there's not a lot of infrastructure to help those volunteers, who just figured out last Friday that they've got to coach their AYSO, Pop Warner, or Little League team.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2016

We caught up with Clayton Lewis , the company's CEO (and also a General Partner at Maveron), here in Los Angeles last week as it launched into this market. The second thing, which is different from other companies, is we have translated that into bite-sized recommendations, and we give you a coach. Arivale is based in Seattle.

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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. Identify new goals based on your own definition of career success and then take action.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

The debt market has pretty much shut down for people, though there is some money coming out of the SBAs that have been somewhat helpful. And, the equity markets are certainly a more challenging environment. So do you think the environment still tough for startups? Mike Napoli: Obviously, it's still tough.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2019

In fact, I found some excellent guidance on how to capitalize on your strengths, as well as areas that you may need to focus, in a new book, “ The Introvert’s Complete Career Guide ,” by Jane Finkle, also one of us, who has been a successful career coach for more than two decades.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2014

What they do with the money is add more engineers and maybe hiring a marketing person. The best ones bring in more executive leadership so you can appropriate allocate resources across sales, marketing, product, engineering and support. You’re the coach, mentor, cheerleader. Objection Handling training.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. By definition an MVP (minimum viable product) means there’s room for improvement. People are buying YOU.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2010

This is a problem for a strategy consultant because you are, by definition, a generalist that is thrown into new problems again and again. He coached me that I had to start with the answers. we’re the market leader in signing up our channel partners. - Often I had a very limited time. How can I START with the answers?

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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. Identify new goals based on your own definition of career success and then take action.

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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. Be targeted in marketing and lead generation. For me, that’s the definition of success.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 25, 2015

Through this process, I discovered that there is a definitive mindset of innovation, and I broke it down to 7 attitudes. That is the definition of unreasonable: to lose your sight and then to decide not only am I going to be runner…but I am going to be an Olympian. And this requires first that they are vulnerable themselves.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

By definition, second-stage ventures generally have 10 to 99 employees and/or $750,000 to $50 million in revenue, and see that as just the beginning. Leaders are needed to coach each salesperson, keep the team on message, and spur new growth and goals. Separate marketing from sales for further leverage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 22, 2014

True leaders realize that, by definition, the word "leader" places the leader at the front, and not the rear. They lead their own small community to pull together in a way that galvanizes the entire ecosystem of the market into a win for both sides. Yet many, many executives try to lead through fear and intimidation.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 25, 2015

Through this process, I discovered that there is a definitive mindset of innovation, and I broke it down to 7 attitudes. That is the definition of unreasonable: to lose your sight and then to decide not only am I going to be runner…but I am going to be an Olympian. Innovators must: 1. We won 220 games in a row.

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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. Identify new goals based on your own definition of career success and then take action.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

If you have a team of 10 people then by definition 90% of the time spent on activities is not put in by you and on a team of 100 it’s 99%. But putting no time into anchoring your beliefs because you’re too busy executing sales, marketing, support, product & engineering is an easy recipe for leadership drift. Conviction.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

Jonathan Lehmann: I was awarded the Larry Wolfen Entrepreneurial Spirit Award at UCLA, after getting amazing coaching from Matt Ridenour in our business plan development class. Entrepreneurship, and trying to start something on my own was definitely one of the tracks I was pursuing at Anderson. When did you create the business?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Almost by definition to be a great leader you need to be an effective psychologist. 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. Even three person organizations are political.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

By definition, second-stage ventures generally have 10 to 99 employees and/or $750,000 to $50 million in revenue, and see that as just the beginning. Leaders are needed to coach each salesperson, keep the team on message, and spur new growth and goals. Separate marketing from sales for further leverage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

By definition, second-stage ventures generally have 10 to 99 employees and/or $750,000 to $50 million in revenue, and see that as just the beginning. Leaders are needed to coach each salesperson, keep the team on message, and spur new growth and goals. Separate marketing from sales for further leverage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2017

It’s important to involve your team in the definition of purpose, and agree it is consistent with a viable business model, including opportunity, customer need, and a positive return. The only way to do this is to assume that change is necessary to keep up with the market and competitors, and make it part of the process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2013

True leaders realize that, by definition, the word "leader" places the leader at the front, and not the rear. They lead their own small community to pull together in a way that galvanizes the entire ecosystem of the market into a win for both sides. Yet many, many executives try to lead through fear and intimidation.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 4, 2014

– while the other might want a quick sale and pocket some bucks while the tech market is hot. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, it’s why I believe executive coaches are so important for startups who have the financial resources to afford them. Those are the easy cases.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2010

Surveys of women business owners show that women’s business concerns tend to skew towards issues such as finding work-life balance, startup financing, and marketing. Beyond self-funding and banks, two resources that women should definitely look into are Women’s Business Centers (WBCs) and community development financial institutions (CDFIs).

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

It was definitely challenging to make something like that happen in an academic environment. In my case, I am breaking down “business” to its fundamentals, which begins with a definition of what, exactly, is a “business.” I can be found on LinkedIn , have a blog Holocognics and my firm’s website is www.SolutionsLLP.com.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

All surveys of women business owners show that women’s business concerns tend to skew towards issues such as finding work-life balance, startup financing, and marketing. To help you, find a coach, create a system, join a group, or get a partner. That’s the real definition of success. Delegating. Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2014

Plus, if she does have areas where we could coach her on improvement it would help to know that coming in.” Finally, if the person has some degree of seniority you should definitely make off-list references from general people in the community. CFOs often know the other CFOs and same for heads of sales, marketing, tech, etc.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 16, 2009

He also represents sports companies and professional athletes with social media marketing and branding. Guess I'll have to wait until all of LinkedIn Servers get updated but will definitely report back with results. SportsNetworker.com is a site that connects sports professionals in the industry.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

They also talked about their outlook on the venture capital market, and how likely they are to be investing this year, given the worried economy. We are not looking to fund people in 2009, who are learning a new market, on our nickel. That market has sort of evaporated for the near/mid term, that's not what we're looking for.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 16, 2011

We began doing singles events, matchmaking, and date coaching. When Three Day Rule was started, was it marketed towards women only or has it always been towards men & women? We started definitely for women only. Definitely making people’s lives easier. Soon after launching it started really taking off.

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