Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2020

Every investor can recite examples of passionate entrepreneurs who seek funding for a worthy cause, like feeding the hungry, without a real business case for who will pay. It’s easy for you to blame someone else in the organization, economic conditions outside, or even overly demanding customers, when things are not going well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2022

in sociology, and is a coach and speaker on work issues and friendship. All relationships bring increased demands for your time, and bring expectations and pressures during any changes in your life, or at work. So recently I started looking for some expert guidance on the pros and cons on this issue. by Jan Yager, who has a Ph.D.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

I had an enjoyable conversation this morning with a young team straight out of college this morning and they were calling to ask advice on how to approach fund raising (angels vs. VCs, how to select a VC, etc.) VCs should be more of a coach than proscriptively telling you what to do. I think of VCs as coaches.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan. We generally have a policy to only fund entrepreneurs once the first version of a product has shipped or it near to shipping. So I asked Ethan to build his product first and then we would fund. The company was called Red Beacon. We like to be able to see the concept.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

You can find a mentor, a coach, a project, or experience, to help you prepare for the role you are looking for. We were originally operating as a coaching company, and we built out this assessment technology for our own clients. It was really a meeting of the minds with the fund. It's very much matching pieces into a puzzle.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2021

67% of Gen Y have less than 3 months-worth of emergency funds. They need to understand that having money is not an entitlement, and not related to the volume of their demands. Nearly 1/4 of millennials spend more than they earn. Even young children (ages 5-10) can and need to understand the concept of income – expense = profit.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2015

What about a top athlete in the NFL or NBA or even part of the coaching staff. I’m not looking to fund people who err too much on the life side the work/life balance. Chief of Staff for a major political figure? Think they don’t have work/life balance challenges in a field they’ve chosen to work in? ” No.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

A while back I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both. He is going gangbusters, and is now targeting a $50M second round of funding.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

ABC Family, Fox, Universal Music, Google, Facebook, Demand Media, MyLife, Riot Games, DFJ Frontier, Rustic Canyon, GRP Partners, Siemer and Associates, Marketshare, Saatchi Online, OMD, Ignited, Rubicon Project, Smashbox Cosmetics, NFL, UCLA, USC, and dozens of start-ups. Opening Party hosted by Demand Media with KCRW at the Viceroy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

in sociology, and is a coach and speaker on work issues and friendship. All relationships bring increased demands for your time, and bring expectations and pressures during any changes in your life, or at work. So recently I started looking for some expert guidance on the pros and cons on this issue. by Jan Yager, who has a Ph.D.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2015

They suffered in trying to live up to public perceptions and the demands to continue their successes. Advisors / Coaches / Mentors. In both cases the biopics portray suffering souls who find extreme and sudden success that casts them into the public eye in a way that they weren’t prepared for. The Role of Chief Psychologist.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 23, 2016

But the “Boardroom Ready” program, as it’s called, is the result of widespread demand for action to break biotech’s glass ceiling. The bank, LifeSci Advisors, is looking to pay penance by helping fund the training program. (But Morgan conference in January.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Trevor is a highly successful serial entrepreneur and success coach who has studied this phenomenon for many years, including the latest findings in neuroscience. I’ve seen it too often in real life, and it was reinforced to me a while back in a book by Trevor Blake, “ Three Simple Steps: A Map to Success in Business and Life.”

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2017

Bill talks about growing up at the Naval Academy with his father, who was an assistant football coach there, and saying that was the most impactful experience on his coaching career. On the demand side of our business, we have open ended insertion orders, and we're up to our ears in people who want to buy our unit.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 14, 2020

Right now we offer one-on-one physical therapy online in California, and we’re offering health coaching in other states and are expanding our coverage in the coming weeks. ” It looks like a timely moment to build such a platform, with telehealth seeing a huge demand spike as a result of the coronavirus.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2012

Trevor is a highly successful serial entrepreneur and success coach who has studied this phenomenon for many years, including the latest findings in neuroscience. I’ve seen it too often in real life, and it was reinforced to me recently when I read a new book by Trevor Blake, “ Three Simple Steps: A Map to Success in Business and Life.”

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 11, 2021

Linktree has been around since 2016 and has more funding than its up-and-coming competitors. So, in February 2020, with little to no funding left, the company completely pivoted to its current link-in-bio business. Now, Snipfeed enters the ring with its own $5.5 ’ ” Image Credits: Snipfeed. With its $5.5

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

Lisa is a skilled public speaking coach. is providing funds for food, AV, security and an amazing venue at their HQ complete with every amenity one could ever need to pull off a successful meetup. I’m honored. Hoping for more projects with Marsha in the near future. Yesterday, I met with @LisaBraithwaite, a local Santa Barbaran.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2015

in sociology, and a coach and speaker on work issues and friendship. All friendships bring increased demands for your time, and bring expectations and pressures during any changes in your life, or at work. So recently I started looking for some expert guidance on the pros and cons on this issue. by Jan Yager, who is a Ph.D.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I now observes the fund raising process as a profession. This is the fund raising perspective from both sides of the table. Fund raising (as is much of life) is a sale – pure and simple. Every company is different so it’s hard to listen to advice from the uber-successful fund raisers. Executive Summary.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2017

in sociology, and is a coach and speaker on work issues and friendship. All relationships bring increased demands for your time, and bring expectations and pressures during any changes in your life, or at work. So recently I started looking for some expert guidance on the pros and cons on this issue. by Jan Yager, who has a Ph.D.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

in sociology, and a coach and speaker on work issues and friendship. All friendships bring increased demands for your time, and bring expectations and pressures during any changes in your life, or at work. So recently I started looking for some expert guidance on the pros and cons on this issue. by Jan Yager, who is a Ph.D.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

It is such an under-discussed issue as we spend our time in startups mostly talking about products, marketing and fund raising. You want to be able to tell your VCs that you’re nervous your market will be limited but you’re worried that might affect your next funding round (or your job!). Lived it.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Ever had a meeting with a CEO who was really short with you, demanded the answer quickly and was fidgety while you spoke? You can also just generally ask entrepreneurs who have presented to the VC but who didn’t get funded (the majority of companies that actually present). It’s in their personality type. Others wing it.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

My fund was an early investor in Overture. If you look at why Google is so successful today, the overwhelming majority of their revenue is from sponsored search. The company that innovated that model was called Overture. We built it into a huge company, sold it for more than $2 billion.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

The “ TenHands ” name emerged from the concept and philosophy of John Wooden, the UCLA basketball coach, who emphasized the value of teamwork and insisted that all ten hands (five players) touch the ball before shooting. Any funding? What is TenHands and why the name? Accounts are free so feel free to use at www.tenhands.net.

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