Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2018

In my view, the most effective entrepreneurs are those with a background of an array of real-life experiences, both positive and negative, as well as good academic and coaching activities. Don’t forget business writing and communication. Get involved in startup-business incubator activities with peers at school.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2022

Write down the “ what” of your vision, but let go of “ how” it will be achieved; you can’t control the precise manner, form, or timing. Brian defines an effective Court of Support as one professional coach, one accountability partner, one mentor, and six to nine group members. Look for a mix of talent and balance in your support team.

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Eric Greenspan

APRIL 11, 2019

Focus on the work, development, the achievements and the ride, and maybe, although unlikely, you’ll stand in one of those circles one day. As parents, isn’t it our responsibility to nurture them and help them achieve? Mine is writing this blog post, indirectly. Both are highly desired places to stand, speak or skate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2016

In my view, the most effective entrepreneurs are those with a background of an array of real-life experiences, both positive and negative, as well as good academic and coaching activities. Don’t forget business writing and communication. Get involved in startup-business incubator activities with peers at school.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

In my view, the most effective entrepreneurs are those with a background of an array of real-life experiences, both positive and negative, as well as good academic and coaching activities. Don’t forget business writing and communication. Get involved in startup-business incubator activities with peers at school.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

25 Years of Writing Code. Adam Sroka, an agile software innovator, is a self-taught programmer with 25 years of writing code and previously combined his coding skills with his knowledge of agile and lean management techniques as a coach and technical trainer. and Schlumberger. Make it Simple to Manage Business Or Close Deals.

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Technical Review Software Review Bertelsmann Technology 88

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Understanding where your VC partner sits in their respective fund and where their fund is in the cycle of its investment lifecycle will help you understand your VCs behavior. In addition to helping manage the board Chris also helps represent the interests of the angel investors / common stock holders.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

So part of playing an effective coach is helping the team to see the answer for themselves. We talk a lot about his schooling, his early jobs as a developer and then as a VC and we talk about his decision to spend winters in Los Angeles. In stead of just writing operating and funding advice Fred also talks about industries.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

Well, Los Angeles-based KarmaGoat (www.karmagoat.com) has figured out a way to help people get rid of those unwanted items they have--and provide those proceeds to charity. That allowed me to take a summer to develop the new idea, and transform it into a business. That gift of livestock can help families out of extreme poverty.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

"The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. Mark noted that even if an entrepreneur does not become a master developer, by simply understanding the software development process, they will be a more effective startup leader.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

We try to hire deeply analytical associates to can help companies problem solve and who make us better investors. So we like to behave like we don’t know any better than you – we can just bring an outside perspective to help spar you and make you a better decision-maker through the process. That’s healthy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2019

Write down the “ what” of your vision, but let go of “ how” it will be achieved; you can’t control the precise manner, form, or timing. Brian defines an effective Court of Support as one professional coach, one accountability partner, one mentor, and six to nine group members. Look for a mix of talent and balance in your support team.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

By the time of my second company MySQL was a much more robust solution and worked well when you had to read a lot of information but was less performant on “write&# activities. As a content management system we had lots of write activities and went with Postgres. This is invaluable in helping the management team.

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socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2019

I got started in investment banking, focused on helping medical companies buy technology companies, and then later in the enterprise space and in the cloud. I also think there's an interesting opportunity in Los Angeles, as the tech scene continues to develop and mature. You can't be the best at everything.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

So I know I’m getting myself into a bit of trouble by writing this. If they’re not running their business then perhaps the wrong person was picked as CEO or perhaps they need more mentorship / coaching to better allocate their time. It’s very common for startup companies to have COO’s. CEO’s run things.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2014

If you’re an early investor like I am that often means writing the first $2-3 million check into a business that previously had either survived on fumes or on a $500,000 angel round. At the B-round great teams often hire their first business development person. You’re the coach, mentor, cheerleader.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits. They had a prominent NorCal investor already so I thought a SoCal lead would make sense – that I could help them in a more hands-on way. Write things down. We helped the write out their requirements for a system.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits. They had a prominent NorCal investor already so I thought a SoCal lead would make sense – that I could help them in a more hands-on way. Write things down. We helped the write out their requirements for a system.

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Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 328

Frank Addante

JUNE 25, 2015

In Brené Brown’s TED talk about vulnerability, she quotes Peter Sheahan and says: “If you want a culture of creativity and innovation, where sensible risks are embraced on both a market and individual level, start by developing the ability of managers to cultivate an openness to vulnerability in their teams. We won 220 games in a row.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 25, 2015

In Brené Brown’s TED talk about vulnerability, she quotes Peter Sheahan and says: “If you want a culture of creativity and innovation, where sensible risks are embraced on both a market and individual level, start by developing the ability of managers to cultivate an openness to vulnerability in their teams. We won 220 games in a row.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

I plan to write about it early next year when we’re all through. 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. So it is now publicly known that we have closed $150 million in our 4th fund. And I’m happy as a VC.

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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. We have a number of startups (or pre-startups) that we are helping get launched. You are writing about the essentials of business. What are you working on now? That's great.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Write down the “ what” of your vision, but let go of “ how” it will be achieved; you can’t control the precise manner, form, or timing. Brian defines an effective Court of Support as one professional coach, one accountability partner, one mentor, and six to nine group members. Look for a mix of talent and balance in your support team.

Entrepreneur 97

Entrepreneur Coach Satisfaction Mentor 97

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

I finally got around to writing it having read Fred Wilson’s post about what a CEO does. I found that a lot of my time went into spending time with the country MD’s to show them that they were still important to me and that I was still willing to help with sales campaigns. Both are basically people businesses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2017

Write down the “ what” of your vision, but let go of “ how” it will be achieved; you can’t control the precise manner, form, or timing. Brian defines an effective Court of Support as one professional coach, one accountability partner, one mentor, and six to nine group members. Look for a mix of talent and balance in your support team.

Entrepreneur 55

Entrepreneur Coach Satisfaction Mentor 55

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2009

It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits ;-). They were looking for a collaboration tool to manage all of their large water development projects. We helped the write out their requirements for a system. They hired a consultant to help them with the review.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Write down the “ what” of your vision, but let go of “ how” it will be achieved; you can’t control the precise manner, form, or timing. Brian defines an effective Court of Support as one professional coach, one accountability partner, one mentor, and six to nine group members. Look for a mix of talent and balance in your support team.

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Entrepreneur Coach Satisfaction Mentor 86

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2009

I write this post as a warning to pick your VC’s carefully. There are people like Gus Tai who any entrepreneur who’s worked with him well tell you is that he has helped coach them into building a great business. They knew enough about your project to have an opinion but not enough to help. Let me explain.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

I’ve started writing up some of those sales & marketing lessons and I plan to continue to build that section out over time. So I did want any rational person who wants to improve does – I hired a coach. there is a nascent industry to try and help you with this, too. We have 12 developers and they have 3.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

This morning, Knowledge Genie (www.myknowledgegenie.com) launched a new web site that helps experts and authors publish online information to the web. Instead of writing a book, we wanted to develop a platform to bring our methods to life, and scale our knowledge. If you've written a book, it can help reinforce that knowledge.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

So, I teamed up with a group of developers that showed interest in working on my idea after the weekend. A total of four talented people at the event decided to team up with me that Friday night including two developers and two business people. We ended up placing 1 st again, this time for best use of Cloud Architect.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 31, 2020

June 2019 (left) and November 2020 (right) I’ve been reluctant to write this blog post because historically I don’t like talking about weight. But I’ve been promising to publish how I lost 65 pounds in the past 18 months without any fad diets or gimmicks to try and be helpful to others. Then should write down your “target goal.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2010

Doing nothing between board meetings to me is like running the “ waterfall software development process. &# We all know that modern software companies run on the “ agile &# development process by having short release cycles and frequent communications. VC’s Want to Help! Most VC’s want to help.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

It’s one thing to invest in a later-stage (say a C round) to help with growth, it’s another to fund companies who are already valued in the billions. Many LPs want to write checks of $10 million or $25 million because they themselves have billions of dollars to manage. Will public investments come next?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

As a VC I’m acutely that a “yes&# decision to support an entrepreneur can do just that, yet I only write 2-4 of them per year and maybe another 3-4 as an angel. Being helpful doesn’t mean telling every person their ideas are great. I’m sure somebody helped you along the way – you can pay it forward.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 2, 2011

In Poly Sci I learned critical thinking and writing. Maybe off-shoring could become more on-shoring and helping drum up employment in places like Detroit. If I’m counseling young people I often coach them to consider getting degrees that will be practical for becoming more employable when they graduate.

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