socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

I think, to be a great entrepreneur, you have to look at what is missing in the category that you will be playing in the industry, and figure what you can deploy with a little bit of strategy and technology to bring a better service and price. By definition, they liked you and thought they were a good fit for you before their applied.

Content 193

Content Social Network Coach Help 193

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2022

This is a tough challenge for every coach and mentor. I’ve never had a definitive list of recommendations to overcome these qualms, so I was pleased to see the insights in a new book, “ Arrive and Thrive ,” by Susan MacKenty Brady, Janet Foutty, and Lynn Perry Wooten. Cultivate the courage to do honest introspection.

Entrepreneur 90

Entrepreneur Satisfaction Coach Mentor 90

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. 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. Separate marketing from sales for further leverage.

Startup 97

Startup Sales Metrics Guide 97

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Most of the guidance you see for entrepreneurs is aimed at those who are selling a product (Apple, Tesla, Xiaomi), or selling a service (Uber, Airbnb, Snapchat). The challenges for making money and survival in these professional services worlds are different, maybe even tougher. For me, that’s the definition of success.

Social Media 56

Social Media Pricing Technical Review Demand 56

socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2012

First off, for the folks who haven't heard of WePlay, what is the service all about? 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. We're trying to win on that front.

Southern California 183

Southern California Startup Platform Coach 183

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2016

We'll talk more about that, but what we do is bring the data cloud to life through licensed professional coaches, who understand the incentives of behavior change, and meet participants where they are, through three or four occasional recommendations each month. VC is definitely a dream job. Clayton Lewis: That's a great question.

Coach 100

Coach Startup Study Venture Capital 100

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2010

We then made groupings of the common features of each piece of logic so we could figure out what “shared services&# we could build so that we could have reusable code. This is a problem for a strategy consultant because you are, by definition, a generalist that is thrown into new problems again and again.

Entrepreneur 372

Entrepreneur Startup Design Framework 372

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2016

A good entrepreneur feels the incentive to offer a new service/product that no one else has offered before. A good entrepreneur feels the incentive to offer a new service/product that no one else has offered before. By definition, if you see the rewards here as outweighing the risks, you are an entrepreneur.

Entrepreneur 55

Entrepreneur Startup Satisfaction Competition 55

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. 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. Separate marketing from sales for further leverage.

Startup 108

Startup Sales Metrics Entrepreneur 108

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2013

A good entrepreneur feels the incentive to offer a new service/product that no one else has offered before. Often times, you will find yourself working with people who "don''t know the ropes" and require extensive coaching and assistance. With a startup there are no rules, until you make them. Challenge of originality.

Entrepreneur 101

Entrepreneur Startup Satisfaction Study 101

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2012

A good entrepreneur feels the incentive to offer a new service/product that no one else has offered before. Often times, you will find yourself working with people who "don't know the ropes" and require extensive coaching and assistance. With a startup there are no rules, until you make them. Challenge of originality.

Entrepreneur 93

Entrepreneur Startup Satisfaction Study 93

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2010

You have to think about your dream, discuss it with friends, partners, and experts until it finally becomes more definitive and concrete. With the help of trusted friends and associates you can now convert the vision into a written plan with a definitive strategy. Thus, your initial dream gets turned into your personal vision.

Technical Review 91

Technical Review Summary Entrepreneur Coach 91

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. 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. Separate marketing from sales for further leverage.

Startup 56

Startup Sales Metrics Guide 56

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2011

A good entrepreneur feels the incentive to offer a new service/product that no one else has offered before. A good entrepreneur feels the incentive to offer a new service/product that no one else has offered before. By definition, if you see the rewards here as outweighing the risks, you are an entrepreneur.

Entrepreneur 95

Entrepreneur Startup Satisfaction Competition 95

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. 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. Separate marketing from sales for further leverage.

Sales 96

Sales Metrics Startup Entrepreneur 96

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2014

A good entrepreneur feels the incentive to offer a new service/product that no one else has offered before. Often times, you will find yourself working with people who "don''t know the ropes" and require extensive coaching and assistance. With a startup there are no rules until you make them. Challenge of originality.

Startup 92

Startup Tips Satisfaction Entrepreneur 92

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2010

A good entrepreneur feels the incentive to offer a new service/product that no one else has offered before. Often times, you will find yourself working with people who "don't know the ropes" and require extensive coaching and assistance. With a startup there are no rules, until you make them. Challenge of originality.

Entrepreneur 92

Entrepreneur Satisfaction Startup Competition 92

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%. 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. Happy New Year.

Startup 150

Startup Coach Course Invest 150

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.

Startup 150

Startup SEO Pepperdine Blogging 150

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 16, 2011

We began doing singles events, matchmaking, and date coaching. We started definitely for women only. Because guys wanted the service just as much as women. We started the matchmaking service a little over a year ago. Definitely making people’s lives easier. Soon after launching it started really taking off.

Santa Monica 74

Santa Monica Startup Beverly Hills Orange County 74

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

I value the service they provide. You can certainly get coaching from your VC on how to play the negotiations since they do it more often than you do. So while you definitely want their help in discussing price and getting you more information (they’re better at it than you), I want a seat at the table. I was willing.

Venture Capital 319

Venture Capital Pricing Startup Outsource 319

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Customer feedback in the form of online reviews and poor customer service is often rationalized as unreasonable expectations or one or two crazy individuals. You can’t find the time for coaching and mentoring. Maybe now is the time to bring in outside coaching and motivational speakers, as well as more training.

Coach 120

Coach Satisfaction Custom Customer 120

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Richard Yen: The first thing I look for, is something unique in the product or service--not a me-too. Someone who has the demonstrated ability to build a product or service, that probably has done a startup before, and is an expert in the domain. You definitely don't get a free pass in this kind of environment.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Ideas Entrepreneur Invest 100

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%. The “Three C’s” of the Internet … The infrastructure and web services phases of the Internet are built. If that isn’t the original definition of “angel” money I don’t know what is.

Startup 390

Startup Venture Capital Capital Funding 390

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

” These are people with whom there is a likely match for your product or service. If you’re raising money in Financial Services I’ve never met a more knowledgeable investor than my partner, Brian McLoughlin. One of the best sales coaches I ever worked with used to talk to me about “testing prospects.”

Develop 366

Develop Development Funding Venture Capital 366