Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Yet I find in my mentoring practice that more and more team members prefer the human-centered approach and respond with more engagement and commitment. You must be committed to developing a growth mindset in others around you to help them aspire to new challenges and achievements. Develop self-awareness of your triggers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In other words, how do you recognize the challenges that really need your leadership , versus the less critical demands that seem to always bubble to the top? 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The first electric bulb was actually invented by Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, who demonstrated the concept, but gave up trying to develop a practical product after only three attempts. She is a former Fortune 50 executive and innovation thought leader who developed her own actionable system to overcome obstacles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2015

If you are like most entrepreneurs I know, there just aren’t enough hours in a day to get all your own work done, as well as run the many one-hour meetings each team member seems to demand for decisions and mentoring. For one-on-one coaching from the startup founder, I call this approach five-minute mentoring.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 24, 2022

Are you sure you know what to look for, or how to develop potential ? Focus on team members who develop relationships. It’s no secret today that customers are more demanding than ever. Mentoring and coaching are also important. Some people have a high IQ, but can’t leverage that into leadership.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2017

In fact, I just finished a new book, “ Winning from Failing ,” by business development and sales productivity expert Josh Seibert, which extends this principle as well to large corporate organizations seeking to improve their productivity and success. Leaders need to reward experiments, rather than demand fixed processes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2019

Customers demand more engagement and flexibility. Priority is placed on employee mentoring and coaching. A primary focus on process leads to highly structured training classes, leaving little room for personal career development. Process leadership focuses on repeatability and efficiency only.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2022

This is a tough challenge for every coach and mentor. Be prepared to create and train a dedicated support group that can keep up with your now larger and growing install base of demanding customers. You need the courage and introspection to lead your team to this new level of expectation, despite the challenges.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2017

Customers demand more engagement and flexibility. Priority is placed on employee mentoring and coaching. A primary focus on process leads to highly structured training classes, leaving little room for personal career development. Process leadership focuses on repeatability and efficiency only.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2019

In this context, I was impressed with the new book, “ The Intelligent Leader ,” by John Mattone, widely regarded as the world’s number one executive coach and authority. Develop an action plan to lead from your strengths, and seek outside support or complementary partners to shore up leadership weaknesses.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan. Because I knew that Ethan was on to a powerful idea and one in which he had developed huge competence and domain knowledge in. The company was called Red Beacon. I was standing with him when he won the TechCrunch 50 award.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We started seeing a demand for what we were doing and from there began throwing singles parties, doing match making, and date coaching. However sometimes what we ignore is there’s a lot that goes into testing your product, the demand, etc. For those Ruby developers out there, Three Day Rules is looking to hire.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

The business accelerator model is YCombinator and TechStars , who select only the best applicants, have a demanding process, provide experienced coaching/mentoring, some seed funding, with a required exit in about six months. Incremental investment may follow. Lean startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2011

The business accelerator model is YCombinator and TechStars , who select only the best applicants, have a demanding process, provide experienced coaching/mentoring, some seed funding, with a required exit in about six months. Incremental investment may follow. Lean startup.

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Jason Nazar

APRIL 2, 2016

I’ve developed it over the years by running Docstoc and helping thousands of folks start and grow their businesses. Seek out and follow the council of advisors in and outside of the business ( watch : court mentors ). Balance “Coaching and Cheerleading” vs. “Doing and Directing” (via Bob Walters ). Intangibles.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

I had developers who thought that the chief architect was a bottleneck – having to be involved in every decision. Our most talented developer wanted to move to the US for personal reasons. I opened up with a very blunt conversation about self confidence, self doubt, family pressure, peer pressure and the demands on a CEO.

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Jason Nazar

MAY 3, 2016

Working for someone that demands excellence and pushes your limits every day will build the most solid foundation for your ongoing professional success. Great leaders will mentor you and will be a loyal source of employment long after you’ve left. You should always have at least 3 people you call mentors who are where you want to be.

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