socalTECH

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

San Diego-based Brickfish , a developer of social media and networking software being used by brands, reported today that it has hired on a Paul Botto, most recently Head of Analytics for the North American Sales Organization at Google, as its Vice President of Sales. Brickfish is venture backed by DCM, Draper Richards L.P.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Develop metrics to monitor work intensity. Some team members feel they have to perform or show off by talking excessively in meetings, always staying late at work, or over-reporting to you on their every move. You can counter positively by encouraging everyone to go home on time, managing meetings carefully, and coaching positively.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2018

Unfortunately, according to Gallup’s State of the American Workplace report, only about one-third of employees feel like owners. I was impressed to see some real guidance on this subject in a new book, “ Counter Mentor Leadership ”, by Kelly and Robby Riggs, a father-son coaching team that spans the age spectrum.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2020

A good way to start is to create and communicate bite-sized milestones toward your end objective, including product development stages, customer threshold targets, and funding achievements. Make sure your objectives and rewards motivate employees through innovation, and desired training and coaching.

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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.” They want validation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2019

I found many more helpful suggestions in a new book, “ The Culture Question ,” by Randy Grieser, Eric Stutzman, Wendy Loewen, and Michael Labun, who have spent years providing leadership and professional development training to companies around the world. Many companies also promote local mentoring and coaching opportunities.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

They will often run all of the daily reports into them covering off for finance, sales, marketing, biz dev & HR. It’s pretty tough to convince me in a company of less than 50 people that the CEO can’t handle 6-8 direct reports to manage the various areas of the business. But ask yourself, what does a COO actually do?

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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. Report Card. To show these companies that they can remain in LA. How has Launchpad LA done? This education will continue.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

As your organization grows and you hire senior staff where you are no longer managing every employee directly the issue of how to manage people that are not your “direct&# reports arises. Dipping: As a decision maker you rely on information being passed to you by the people who report to you. Skipping is insidious.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2017

As a result, I’m certainly convinced that engaging, retaining, and developing people for maximum performance is one of the toughest jobs you will ever have. New managers are generally taught not to build personal relationships with direct reports – in case you have to discipline them later. Invest more of your time with top performers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 11, 2014

We observe them in their daily lives and interactions with their teachers, coaches and friends and we look on with pride and the wonderful little human beings they have become. Now three years later we look on with wonder and their developed skills on the piano and guitar. You gave them that gift, not me.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

The press who trusted me enough to report on our successes. 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. Despite the fact that only the Lotto winners get reported. I didn’t want to disappoint. My employees. Not fun, hey?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2019

In fact, I just saw a new book supporting this position, “ Decisive Intuition ,” by Rick Snyder, an international business coach who has launched and grown several businesses of his own, as well as helped big companies, including Intel and Anytime Fitness. The venerable Steve Jobs was reportedly in the same category.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2014

At the B-round great teams often hire their first business development person. You’re the coach, mentor, cheerleader. You finally need to start planning your product roadmap a bit further than your 2-week sprints so that the rest of the organization has a chance to preplan for new features.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2017

If you don’t focus on it, you can expect to be one of the 25 percent of CEO turnovers that occur every year from firing or forced retirement, as reported by a recent Harvard study. Warren should know, as the developer of leadership assessment, as taught by Harvard and Yale, and used by many businesses today.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Naturally the countries reacted negatively to reporting to a centralized figure in the UK (and of course to no longer reporting to the CEO). I had developers who thought that the chief architect was a bottleneck – having to be involved in every decision. We faced it when we were small. Sometimes this is heat.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2011

Justice Department and SEC reported imposing over $1.5 Last year, this same type of legislation was adopted by thirty other nations and countries who are member of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (“OECD”), with its much-awaited Good Practice Guidance for anti-bribery compliance programs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2011

Brazil is now a powerful country, but similar examples still prevail in many developing nations. I had organized European operations into regions and the country manager for Italy reported to the central European manager based in Germany. Thus, when the government creates restrictions, think out of the box. HR rules are local.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Cathy Brooks (@CathyBrooks) - Strategic Communications Coach. Lisa Steadman (@LisaSteadman) - Best selling author, relationship coach, and owner of Woohoo, Inc. Tanya Roscorla (@reportertanya) - Education reporter and writer. Zac Sanford (@zacsanford) - VP Development, Suntaur Entertainment; #scriptchat.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

Instead of writing a book, we wanted to develop a platform to bring our methods to life, and scale our knowledge. We'd spend a decade or so looking at that area, and wrote three books - Sink or Swi: 12 Weeks To Get It Right; Job Spa, 12 Weeks To Refresh, Refocus and Recommit to your Career; and The End Of Work As You Know It.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 4, 2010

And a big factor is how big is the Founder Developer Gap. There’s a funny phenomenon where often the best sounding technical people are often the worst developers. Other labels: Consultant – Take bits and pieces, possibly coach Advisor / Advisory Board Member – Often a periodic responsibility and some ad hoc activities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2017

Improve reporting structure support (vertical alignment). The solution is people-focused managers, who practice empathy and coaching to check alignment, rather than looking backward only at results. You must provide your team with constant training and support on what good execution looks like, and a follow-up process.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 31, 2020

What Noom got me to do was develop a plan for situations I would be in BEFORE I was in the situation. I developed a plan BEFORE going out of what I would tell friends of why I wasn’t going to be drinking, “I’m on a 30-day health kick” or something similar. an “accountability coach” (or accountability friend). you name it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2017

The challenge for you as a business professional and leader is to develop the work ethic you need to compete, and to recognize the essential elements in every partner or team member you associate with. For your own business, the right time to address expected norms is during coaching and before hiring.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2010

Note that this will require close and trusted cooperation between engineering/development and each localization group. As your company grows, this person should reside at corporate headquarters and report solid line to the head of international operations. Optimize the costs of localization.

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