TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 29, 2019

.” The professional gamers who list their services on the site charge an average of $10 per session and ProGuides takes about a 25% cut. The company lowers its rates for popular gamers or gamers who are willing to spend more time on the platform either selling their services or actually coaching esports players.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 3, 2014

Her positive attitude and willingness to take chances rapidly propelled her to the coveted and influential position of Coach. Several Zappos employees had mentioned "Coach" and the impact she has had on the corporation during our tour. We do have processes here, but it''s something I was passionate about. (so It just depends on.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

A well-designed service delivery process will make you easy to do business with. Train and coach continuously. How they see you deal with and talk about peers, partners, team members, and customers tells them what the real rules of conduct are for customer service. Make your service deliver process “happy.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2022

They skimp on the design of their website, procrastinate on the rollout to make sure the product is perfect, and get so excited about technology features that they forget about creating value for customers. I like the guidance from marketing coach David Newman’s classic book “ Do It! Don’t put all your faith in passion.

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Marketing Startup Social Media Technical Review 141

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 2, 2014

Thus I hear many talk about “radical transparency” when virtually ever experienced operator in my inner circle talks knowingly about that naiveté. It’s why I called out the importance of “executive coaches” in this post. I was thinking about this over the holiday. Foursquare? Noah Glass.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2022

These authors reference real cases and real business leaders, based on their decades of experience in building companies and executive coaching. I offer here their summary of purposes and inspirations that have motivated existing business leaders, with insights from my own mentoring and coaching experience.

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Technical Review Coach Mentor Customer 143

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2023

It’s all about contributing and being connected to team and company values for improving the lives of customers, or possibly a higher-level purpose, such as saving the environment. Be excited about change and the new beginnings it brings for your team. Be clear about expectations. Start with ‘How are you?’

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Berkonomics

MARCH 2, 2017

As an early stage investor, the first test for me is whether “my” entrepreneur is flexible in both the plan and execution of his or her vision (since from experience almost everything about a business plan changes over time), and whether s/he, no matter what age or experience, is coachable. Doctoral theses have been written on this subject.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2021

A well-designed service delivery process will make you easy to do business with. Train and coach continuously. How they see you deal with and talk about peers, partners, team members, and customers tells them what the real rules of conduct are for customer service. Make your service deliver process “happy.”

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Tech.Co

JUNE 29, 2021

Long hours in co-working offices with CEOs fresh from university with big ideas and a lot of vague, nebulous chat about platforms. Plexal has also noticed a shift in the way workers think about why they would come into an office at all. Or at least you have an idea of what a startup is like to work in?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

By contrast, Edison persevered and designed a working light bulb after thousands of failures. Don’t be hesitant to use coaches, mentors, and other resources to test and improve your image by others, and your perceptions of business realities and biases. He went on to start many successful companies, including General Electric.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2020

At Expert DOJO early stage startups receive $100,000 investment, success coaching, advice, and specialist help in all areas of their business growth. All you want to know about Brian is contained in his TEDx talk - [link]. In 2018 & 2019 Expert DOJO made 42 investments. They made 45 more investments in 2020.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 13, 2014

The conversation with Bob was about what the composition of advisors should look like. But, advisors, coaches, and mentors can often fill the bill. Shafqat Islam looks at how he defined his Board of Advisors for NewsCred : We spent a lot of time thinking about the exact roles and responsibilities for our advisory board.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2010

In billing we literally started thinking about all of the types of bills that would be generated for customers: full payment, partial payment, split payment, senior discount, student discount, level pay plan, etc. He taught me much that I know about critical thinking. He coached me that I had to start with the answers.

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Entrepreneur Startup Design Framework 372

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

com) � backed by local investors Rincon Venture Partners and Bonfire Ventures�is helping to solve that problem, with its career pathing software designed for helping employees at large enterprises figure out what's next. We caught up with Fuel50 founder and CEO Anne Fulton to learn more about the startup. What is Fuel50?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2019

They skimp on the design of their website, procrastinate on the rollout to make sure the product is perfect, and get so excited about technology features that they forget about creating value for customers. I like the guidance from marketing coach David Newman’s classic book “ Do It! Don’t put all your faith in passion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

in Physics who talks passionately about starting a business producing nuclear powered batteries. His challenge is to focus on one market, with a specific design, cost, and price. For example, I have a friend with a Ph.D. I have tried to convince him the general idea alone does not make a business.

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socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2019

We spoke with Meredith Finn a new Partner at March Capital--who headed up that the Rise of the Female Entrepreneur sessions this year--to hear more about her perspectives on investments, what the Rise of the Female Entrepeneur was all about, March's interests in artificial intelligence and more. What's your role at March Capital?

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : SocialStay is: "An easy to set up & manage mobile platform designed for the hospitality industry. Great design/ user experience carries more and more weight these days and I have been lucky to touch some of the world’s most visible brands. It drives revenue & engages guests."

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever get I’m about to offer you some fund-raising advice that flies directly in the face of what most conventional wisdom will tell you. I hired a sales coach named Kai Krickle who helped me figure out how to close more deals. Why you should never have a data room?—?the

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. no, I''m not talking about SVB, Comerica, Square1 and the like. We are judging how well you are coached on stage. ” Meh.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2017

They skimp on the design of their website, procrastinate on the rollout to make sure the product is perfect, and get so excited about technology features that they forget about creating value for customers. I like the guidance from marketing coach David Newman’s classic book “ Do It! Don’t put all your faith in passion.

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Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

The company has a majority stake in Team Liquid, a top esports team in the US and Europe with 60 pro players, coaches, and analysts competing in nine games as well as a minority stake in Super League Gaming. Developers also choose Epic’s Unreal Engine for cinematic production, visualization, design and simulation.

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Entertainment Press 108

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2014

They skimp on the design of their website, procrastinate on the rollout to make sure the product is perfect, and get so excited about technology features that they forget about creating value for customers. I like the guidance from marketing coach David Newman’s recent book “ Do It! Don’t put all your faith in passion.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

“[It] is super competitive and great for companies looking to not only gain exposure but to learn from and see the breath of other startups and founders in the space,” said Darlene Gillard, Director of Community and Partner of digitalundivided, about the Startup of the Year competition. Indiegogo (San Francisco,CA and New York, NY).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

In the VC insider baseball world a discussion has gone on about “VC platforms” over the past 5 or so years. Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth. All are great firms with great reputations and phenomenal returns.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 6, 2015

Powell: To experiment, I needed about 10 molds. These were sports that you taught yourself by watching others, and just pushed yourself to progress for fun, with no coach or parent influencing you. I grew to love many things about skating as I got into the industry I helped to create. This was an inspiration to me.

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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. There were lots of people very intent on the execution of the product, really looking into the details of design and flow. When did you create the business?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2013

They skimp on the design of their website, procrastinate on the rollout to make sure the product is perfect, and get so excited about technology features that they forget about creating value for customers. I found some help from marketing coach David Newman’s new book “ Do It! Don’t put all your faith in passion.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

I attended the inaugural Open Angel Forum in Los Angeles back in January and wrote about it here. They walked through 4 minutes of PowerPoint garble (of a 5 minute pitch) before unveiling a beautifully designed UI. I wrote about how to give demos in a previous post. The two most ambitious projects were ThereNow and IQ Engines.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Any team can sign up, but it is geared toward entrepreneurs who have overcome the early hurdles of finding a business idea they are passionate about and forming a founding team, but do not know how to build a business model around it. This class is designed to help entrepreneurs understand where they are going wrong.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2018

I was struck by this assertion in a new book, “ The Messy Middle ,” by Scott Belsky, who has spent more than a decade leading in the worlds of technology, design, and startups. They don’t hesitate to get help from executive coaches, Meyers Briggs training, or other peer groups, such as the EO Network.

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Competition Startup Examples Coach 81

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2010

To better understand what they're trying to do, we spoke with both Richard and John about the group. Myself, I am now working with a medical ultrasound technology firm, working directly with the researcher and a design firm. Thanks for the time today. What is the idea behind the Tech CEO Network? Where is this talent coming from?

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socalTECH

JULY 1, 2013

He sat down with us to tell us more about the incubator, plus why--having started an equivalent of what would be called accelerator today, but during the dot com days--he''s a fan of a different model today. It consisted of what today would be called an accelerator, which involves sprinkling a few dollars and coaching on other people.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 14, 2015

We caught up with Grant to learn more about The Foos and his quest to use the principles of software programming to help kids learn. Like me, he was a dad, has three kids, and was a Lego Robotics coach for 7 years. Tells us a bit more about your approach to the game? What's the story behind Codespark? Right away, we kit it off.

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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. Shape your business by design, not by default. Picking a niche is another good way to focus.

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Social Media Pricing Technical Review Demand 56

TechCrunch LA

MAY 14, 2020

Gender bias in medicine is systemic,” says Carine Carmy, the fast-talking CEO and co-founder of Origin , during a condensed chat about her startup mission to make physical therapy for women and mothers accessible and affordable across the US, both online and through a network of physical clinics.

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