Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2023

It also helps to create office events for family members and local community groups. A single marketing coordinator can accelerate your efforts by being the coach and mentoring key members of the team on soft marketing. The most effective teams, through sharing and common interests, develop leaders at all levels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Some people are convinced that leadership is a character trait that you must be born with, but I see it more as a mindset and a set of skills that you can develop and learn from experiences and relationships in business, both positive and negative. Learn how to make every negotiation a win-win, rather than a win-lose event.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2020

The challenge is to create positive recharge events for you and your team on a regular basis, rather than waiting for that one big success indicator, like record profits or going public, to override all the negative crises along the way. Schedule all-hands events to celebrate each and get everyone’s batteries recharged.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Strategy must be a process, with an implementation system behind it, rather than just a periodic event. Team members must be engaged and enabled to do the job – that means aligned, equipped, coached, supported, and valued for the work and changes ahead. Consistency and attention to detail are critical.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 9, 2010

AgilePalooza is a community event presented by VersionOne. A fun, low-cost event linking internationally recognized coaches and trainers with the local software development community, AgilePalooza is a day of collaboration, education and advancement of agile methods. Thursday, July 15, 2010 -- AgilePalooza Los Angeles.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2012

At a recent accelerator event on the West Side, a friendly young founder told me that he had been coached by his mentor not to talk to Angel groups. But as a community, we have to figure out how Angels can effectively participate in the development of accelerator-based companies. The Angel funding process can be arduous.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Don’t wait for the next performance appraisal, or for an accumulation of good events. We all need more time to focus on positive results, rather than hear coaching only on things gone wrong. Time is of the essence here. A little competition for results is always a good thing. Show confidence in their progress and future.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2022

It’s up to you to provide clarity around priorities, visualizing the required results, and developing a shared sense of being “in it together.” I would caution you that there will always be events, such as disruptive new technologies , that cannot be predicted. I encourage you to keep your team focus on targets credible today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2021

She is a trusted and experienced leadership advisor, executive coach, and author. Richard Branson kept meticulous notebooks of scribbled ideas, insights, and to-do's from key events in the past, for sharing with his leadership team for his many companies in Virgin Group. Be future focused with your vision and direction.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 18, 2010

It was inspired somewhat by a comment that Matt Coffin (founder of LowerMyBills) made at a technology event hosted by Jason Nazar. I set out some simple objectives, picked 13 startup CEO’s, planned a series of events, spent time personally trying to coach people through their fund raising processes and waited to see where it went.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

Jason Calacanis started this initiative in response to the pay-to-play network of angel events that he despised. The first event was a big success and brought out many of LA’s angel elite. The second event was in Boulder. Tonight’s event at the 5A5 Steak Lounge in San Francisco was even better.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

If you’ve spent any time in the business-events industry, you know destinations like Las Vegas, Paris, Chicago, or Barcelona like the back of your hand. In 2016, the renowned international university programming tournament — attended by student competitors, coaches, and parents — took place in Phuket, Thailand. Petersburg, Russia.

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socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2019

I also think there's an interesting opportunity in Los Angeles, as the tech scene continues to develop and mature. It took about half of one day for the event, focused on the Rise of the Female Entrepreneur, and showcasing what women are building. It's a great event. You can't be the best at everything.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

You must develop the courage to face them every day, whether they be personnel issues or business issues. Experience has shown me that follow-up is required to make any discussions effective, whether it be coaching or networking. Soon your fear will fade into the background. Actively follow up on uncomfortable discussions.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The company, Zephyrus Simulation LLC, was spun off from a product developed by a group of bioengineering students at UMaine. Stage 1 E-Teams will focus on discovering the best market for their inventions, while Stage 2 E-Teams will work to develop and validate their business models. The teams will attend three-day workshops in Boston.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2009

Newport Beach-based CircleUp , a startup developing group communications tools, is setting its eyes on online payments, saying today that it has launched a new service to collect money via email for teams and groups. The firm is using a payment service from Amazon.com, Amazon Payments, to enable the feature. 99 plus 6.9% of the payment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2016

It also helps to create office events for family members and local community groups. A single marketing coordinator can accelerate your efforts by being the coach and mentoring key members of the team on soft marketing. The most effective teams, through sharing and common interests, develop leaders at all levels.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2014

The company manufactures products that work with consumer electronics, so unless you’re a complete luddite, chances are you and most everyone else in the developed world has used a Belkin device at one time or another. You would have found me coaching youth soccer teams on the weekends. That’s the right place for me to be.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 27, 2013

After that a meme developed amongst many startups (and the advisors that coached them) that, “TechCrunch didn’t matter. It’s also important for recruiting, fund raising, business development and even company morale. You should focused on getting coverage where your users are.” Perception = reality.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2017

We all have a human tendency, developed in our childhood, to make up stories which paint us as a victim rather than the problem. Real leaders improve the readiness, training, and preparation for these events, so that circumstances are not a source of pain, but are expected and can be accomplished with personal satisfaction.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

This second annual fest brings together technology leaders, startup CEOs, investors, Hollywood studio executives, entrepreneurs, developers, students and more to celebrate LA’s dynamic technology industries with panels, workshops, hackathon, mixers, and a start-up showcase spotlighting 40 local startups. and launching at Silicon Beach Fest.

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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. In any event give me time to do the work.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

It does mean that everyone on the team, from you the founder to your most introverted developer, needs to really understand and believe in the product and strategy, and when asked, doesn’t hesitate to be an advocate for you and the business. Provide cross-functional mentoring and coaching.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

I was very excited by how inclusion was such a priority in the space, Startup of the Year wanted to work with us to make sure the event reflected our community ,” said Denayja Reese, Partnerships and Production Manager of BlackTech Week. Greater Fargo Moorhead Economic Development Corporation (Fargo, ND).

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 5, 2012

Startup Weekend LA has grown to become a very special event here in Los Angeles. This past SWLA (February 24-26) was like non other and the 5th event to take place at Coloft here in Santa Monica. Those with their ideas selected were out on the prowl, looking to recruit the top designer or developer in the room.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Yes, I know it’s my job as the CEO to be the coach for people and that’s fine. There’s a guy in Los Angeles that I met at several tech networking events. But “he didn’t have the budget to hire a developer until he had raised money!&#. He went out and found a developer and built a product.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

There are so many activities and events that have sprouted this year to support the thriving tech scene in Southern California. These events, and others like them, take place all around the country and even the world! So, I teamed up with a group of developers that showed interest in working on my idea after the weekend.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

To give visibility to these companies to: Sources of funding (angels / VCs), business development partners, mentors who have themselves built successful companies, the press and potential employees to hire. To show these companies that they can remain in LA. So What is Different for Class Three? This education will continue.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 16, 2011

We began doing singles events, matchmaking, and date coaching. As a result, a few months into the business we started doing the singles events and then started to bring in guys more. What type of events were you putting together for singles? They were events to bring single people together in a low pressured environment.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 31, 2020

When I go out to a work event I would be having a good week or two of eating but then free hors d’oeuvres would be served and in the mild anxiety of networking I would inevitably eat what was put in front of me. What Noom got me to do was develop a plan for situations I would be in BEFORE I was in the situation. you name it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2010

In many cases these issues boil down to developing and maintaining effective relationships.Our educational system has a bias towards “technical” skills and individual achievement. Improving employee performance is a process not an event. You need to transition from player to coach. Failing to communicate. The Sprint.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

I’ve spent hours this week reading about the firing of the head coach and personnel manager of the football team I support – The Philadelphia Eagles. His name was Chip Kelly and he came off of a very successful stint as the coach of the collegiate Oregon Ducks. Developing trusting relationships with peers is critical.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

That was the topic of my keynote at Seedcon, an event hosted by the University of Chicago, where I am a graduate of the MBA program. But you realize that you can be more helpful as a coach. And yes, I sleep better at night as a coach. Develop a thick skin for it. What’s it really like being an entrepreneur?

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Not only do our business clients turn to us for lawsuits, but they also ask us to create efficient processes and develop their brands. Sometimes we draft business plans and coach the entrepreneurs on their pitch, and sometimes we even help develop a business model. I don’t go to too many official “networking” events.

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LATechDigest

AUGUST 23, 2016

Focus is on Growth-Stage Companies and Strategic Business Development. ShotTracker with its innovative “ShotTracker TEAM” solution, affordably captures real-time stats for basketball teams, yielding powerful analytics for coaches, players and fans. The program launches today in R/GA’s LA office.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The program is based on a highly developed process created by entrepreneurial thought-leader and Ivy League educator Steve Blank , author of the book The Four Steps to the Epiphany. Customer Development. What you will get at NEXT: You will be taught the what, how, and why of the customer development process.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2016

I started as a teenager, and I did babysitting, life guarding, and swim coaching. We were constantly approached by parents at the park, and at different events where we were babysitting, asking for help. How did you handle going from a background in child care, to developing and app and figuring out the technology side of things?

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