Berkonomics

MAY 13, 2021

The longer it takes to produce and release a product, the more fixed overhead is consumed, and the runway of remaining cash diminishes. Further, just because someone volunteers to invest doesn’t make that person into a coach or expert, although many seem to think their investment gives them the right to be that coach or expert.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2022

Every business needs repeatable processes to grow and thrive, but modern business processes need the right people to make them efficient and productive. The right people make productive processes, not the other way around. On the other hand, I see teams with almost no process that are tremendously productive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2023

You need to make sure that everyone on the team, from the clerical assistant to the chief financial officer, knows your vision and product, and doesn’t hesitate to actively engage and be an effective proponent with anyone who might be of value to the business. In fact, having one marketing guru on the team alone won’t get you very far.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 2, 2017

Flexibility: the context in which a business plan envisions the enterprise in its marketplace is constantly changing as new products and services challenge competitors to innovate and adapt. And finally, there are always ways to improve the process of design, test, roll-out and marketing a new idea. Don’t be one of those.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

You need to make sure that everyone on the team, from the clerical assistant to the chief financial officer, knows your vision and product, and doesn’t hesitate to actively engage and be an effective proponent with anyone who might be of value to the business. In fact, having one marketing guru on the team alone won’t get you very far.

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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. and I was always really passionate about the coaching program. Selfless Coaching.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2012

The company said those videos will include Fanticipation, focused on weekend box office contenders; Honored, focused on awards season; and Unsung, featuring the unsung folks in Hollywood such as character actors, dialect coaches, costume designers, and more. Karger was previously at Entertainment Weekly. READ MORE>>.

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Fandango Coach Hollywood Entertainment 154

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 waste your time following up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2012

I believe you can be much more productive, as well as a more effective leader, if you approach most meetings as mentoring opportunities, and limit them to five minutes. The time limit has more to do with setting an expectation that the meeting is not for solving the problem, but coaching on the parameters and the approach.

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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. It’s a core process that must be up and effective when you deliver your first product or service. Make your service deliver process “happy.” If service employees are not happy, the process isn’t working yet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2021

The key is to make decisions from data and feedback, once your business has real customers and real products. Working in isolation is fine during the creative phase of the startup, where the founder is often the designer and architect, as well as the builder. Trusting your gut at this stage isn’t good enough. Absolute control.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 2, 2014

Many startups these days are started by young, technical or product founders who are in the idealistic phase of their lives and careers. It’s why I called out the importance of “executive coaches” in this post. Given how important people management is it’s surprising more of us don’t have group coaches.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2019

Image via Pexels Every business needs repeatable processes to grow and thrive, but modern business processes need the right people to make them efficient and productive. The right people make productive processes, not the other way around. On the other hand, I see teams with almost no process that are tremendously productive.

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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. By contrast, Edison persevered and designed a working light bulb after thousands of failures. Build and maintain your emotional intelligence.

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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. It’s a core process that must be up and effective when you deliver your first product or service. Make your service deliver process “happy.” If service employees are not happy, the process isn’t working yet.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 5, 2016

This money will be used to further grow the studio and amplify resources for [build], rhubarb studios ’ three-month immersive coaching program which takes startups from conception to series A. “We The brilliant people in these teams are key to our portfolio companies’ success,” said rhubarb studios co-founder Ryan Prust.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 29, 2021

” Ben Kaufman, meanwhile, the former CEO of Quirky, which raised $185 million in VC funding to build a “social product development platform” was “brash” and “unorthodox” and “had no business being a chief executive.” ” “It has been an extremely difficult and stressful time too,” concurs Roughan.

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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.

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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. You can find a mentor, a coach, a project, or experience, to help you prepare for the role you are looking for.

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Help Southern California Startup Technical Review 100

Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

This corporate partnership has proven well for these startups in helping them launch their products and services into another galaxy. 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.

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Entertainment Press 108

SoCal CTO

MAY 13, 2014

But, advisors, coaches, and mentors can often fill the bill. Through this he defined aspects like “deep dives into our marketing strategy” and “product feedback and product strategy.” In Bob’s post, he tells startup founders to get smart on product design, software architecture and development process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2017

Every business needs repeatable processes to grow and thrive, but modern business processes need the right people to make them efficient and productive. The right people make productive processes, not the other way around. On the other hand, I see teams with almost no process that are tremendously productive.

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Entrepreneur Coach Organization Mentor 78

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2016

You need to make sure that everyone on the team, from the clerical assistant to the chief financial officer, knows your vision and product, and doesn’t hesitate to actively engage and be an effective proponent with anyone who might be of value to the business. In fact, having one marketing guru on the team alone won’t get you very far.

Marketing 89

Marketing Coach Mentor Social Media 89

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). ” So Ethan went to work as a product manager at Google Video. I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan.

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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 waste your time following up.

Marketing 97

Marketing Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review 97

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2019

That requires trust and respect from all, as well as constant coaching and development to keep them committed to following you. Innovation must be applied to your business model, your processes, as well as your product offering. Aim to obsolete your own products with new, before competitors do it.

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Startup Demand Training Customer 88

SoCal CTO

MARCH 4, 2010

Forms Augmenting the team can take various forms: Consulting – defining how to attack particular issues, possibly directly planning Coaching – advising on how to approach particular issues Manage – lead members Execute – take on specific activities Again, this is fairly fuzzy, but it comes down to having mutual expectations.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

In practice it can be a fine line between sparring partner / coach and stepping over the line to brute-force persuasion. Here is where I see this really play out: Product Management. Most CEOs fancy their own product skills and like to weigh in on priorities. CEOs often meddle in products and dev teams hate it.

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Startup Sales CTO Coach Course 150

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : SocialStay is: "An easy to set up & manage mobile platform designed for the hospitality industry. 8 ) SocialStay is effectively a B-to-B, SaaS product that requires you to simultaneously speak to several audiences (hotels, travelers, travel sites, etc.). It drives revenue & engages guests."

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Startup Design Mobile Social Network 233

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Perks include office space, prototype lab, production facilities, mentoring, and investments up to $150,000 in the first 4 months. They are just over the halfway mark with their current class and have been continuously improving their program to increase the value for their entrepreneurs, their products and their business.

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Startup Invest Chatsworth Mentor 40

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

It is also for established businesses that are working on a new product launch and have hit some roadblocks they need to flesh out. Most entrepreneurs think of some kind of product and then go and try to find someone to buy it,” said Risenhoover. This class is designed to help entrepreneurs understand where they are going wrong.”.

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Class Mentor Startup UCLA 98

socalTECH

JULY 1, 2013

Our mission is to bring inventions and innovation out of research institutions, primarily Universities, and license them and convert those inventions and innovations into viable products, and eventually companies, which we can get acquired for an early exit, or launch them into commercial operation and then eventually get acquired.

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Incubator Startup USC Tech Coast Angels 217

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Jackson , “This financing round, coupled with hiring Adam Sroka as our head of technology, puts CapLinked in a position to further enhance our enterprise product offerings.”. Sroka earlier worked at Industrial Logic,where he developed programs in test-driven development, refactoring, and object-oriented design for HP, Yahoo!,

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Technical Review Software Review Bertelsmann Technology 88

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 “product” value is difficult to quantify, the costs are nebulous, and entrepreneurs have to clone themselves to scale the business.

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Social Media Pricing Technical Review Demand 56

socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2019

The key thing in figuring out how to design this kind of event and content, is you want to be able to provide really practical advice, and make sure you bring in people who tell it like it is. One thing that struck me, was just how practical the advice as, from team building to fundraising to scaling out a product and operations.

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Capital Entrepreneur Invest Artificial Inteligence 162

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

Marco Zappacosta served up an cogent, business focused and nicely demo’d pitch of their product. They walked through 4 minutes of PowerPoint garble (of a 5 minute pitch) before unveiling a beautifully designed UI. ThereNow has build a platform (physical camera + software platform) to help remote coaches help improve teachers.

Angel 254

Angel Technical Review Software Review Platform 254

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? We are judging how well you are coached on stage. They are designed to help good companies to get access to investors but also to make bad companies look good. What kind of deals should I be doing? What stage?

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Startup Venture Capital Pricing Technical Review 361