Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 29, 2019

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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Tech.Co

JUNE 29, 2021

We’ve seen demand for workspace rise rapidly, and more and more of our members are spending time in the office because they’ve really missed the energy you get from being part of a community, and connecting with colleagues in person. Even startups that went into the pandemic with a strong sense of culture and identity have lost some of that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2019

Customers demand more engagement and flexibility. You need a team focused on the future as well as the present. Priority is placed on employee mentoring and coaching. Mentoring and coaching tend to improve commitment, motivation, decision making, and creative talents, which are required for a competitive business and career.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2019

Even the best do extra homework to prepare mentally and emotionally to be at their personal best to deliver on key performance meetings and presentations. Set aside time to seek out experts in your field for ideas, as well as mentoring and coaching. Focus on and recognize incremental progress. Mentally transition between work and home.

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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

APRIL 21, 2017

Customers demand more engagement and flexibility. You need a team focused on the future as well as the present. Priority is placed on employee mentoring and coaching. Mentoring and coaching tend to improve commitment, motivation, decision making, and creative talents, which are required for a competitive business and career.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2019

Practice active listening and full attention to those present. Many new venture owners have trouble disengaging from the escalating demands of their business to celebrate the small successes of the people and customers who depend on them. Work on being a facilitator rather than a driver.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2018

I spend a lot of time coaching entrepreneurs through their fund-raising processes by doing “pipeline reviews” of all of the firms with whom they are speaking. She stood in front of the sales executives and shouted at them like she was a high school football coach. It’s hard and awkward to do this because silence demands a response.

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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. Take the time to stay present, listen, and be vigilant. Yet I haven’t found many that offer practical recommendations and examples.

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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

JUNE 2, 2017

Even the best do extra homework to prepare mentally and emotionally to be at their personal best to deliver on key performance meetings and presentations. Set aside time to seek out experts in your field for ideas, as well as mentoring and coaching. Focus on and recognize incremental progress. Mentally transition between work and home.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

We are going to do what we do best and bring you all the awesome presentation action live tonight at 5PM PST. Tonights Startup Weekend presentations are being judged by the following: Maneesh Goyal. He also has product strategy and business development experience in the areas of video-on-demand services and RF CMOS components.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

In 2016, the renowned international university programming tournament — attended by student competitors, coaches, and parents — took place in Phuket, Thailand. But longtime ICPC student coach Antonette Logar, Ph.D., And even at that, it was just to get on the agenda to make a presentation.”. Petersburg, Russia. “It

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Like me, he was a dad, has three kids, and was a Lego Robotics coach for 7 years. What that forces you to do is, one, we had to invent an icon-based programming language for kids, which uses animated characters and very clear iconography to present the ideas. They're pretty demanding on the player.

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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. A blog with our reviews of the scene, locations, etc.

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