Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2020

I saw the key ones outlined well in the classic book, “ Creating High Performers ,” by William Dann, a leading coach to experienced CEOs. Your standards for product quality, sales growth, and customer satisfaction must be documented and reviewed prior to results and performance reviews.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2023

These authors bring a wealth of knowledge from their decades of practicing executive coaching and psychology, as well as business employment law, with real companies both before and during the transition. Use shared-document platforms, in-house message systems, and online whiteboards, to maximize sharing and minimize miscommunication.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2023

Any startup coach or business advisor will tell you that, on your way to being a great chef, you don't start your journey by inventing the ultimate entre. Finally you create and document your recipe (business plan). In all cases, don’t skip the basic training.

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Berkonomics

MAY 4, 2010

After hiring someone with all of the attendant enthusiasm followed by the training and learning curve, if an employee shows signs of weakness in the job or problems dealing with contemporaries, it is the natural tendency for most of us to go first into coaching mode, and reset the observation clock to see if our excellent coaching does the job.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

For the sake of protection, there should be at least several coaching sessions and a documentation of these sessions in the employee record. Firing on fit is an important rule to consider when examining the early work of a new hire – within the first ninety days.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

The outcomes were quite different with one board fending off immediate threats of lawsuit by creditors, another coaching a key employee into the CEO job, and the third electing a board member with experience to step in as CEO. This is one sticky conversation for most young executives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2021

During the early stages, you are the company, processes are not documented, you don’t have much help, so you need a fanatical attention to detail. The key is to make decisions from data and feedback, once your business has real customers and real products. Trusting your gut at this stage isn’t good enough. Absolute control.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2023

Inside the organization, it also pays to offer some of your time for coaching and mentoring to less experienced team members, as an entrée to a supportive relationship. Check yourself by documenting your own results on a daily basis. Loners need not apply. Businesses win and grow by achieving more results.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Any startup coach or business advisor will tell you that, on your way to being a great chef, you don't start your journey by inventing the ultimate entre. Finally you create and document your recipe (business plan). In all cases, don’t skip the basic training.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2023

Personal regular communication is best, rather than some nebulous written mission document. Of course, you should always be available and willing to coach members when requested, or share your experience and skill. People need to know what is expected of them, and they actually prefer high expectations to low ones.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Since I’m not a life coach, I can’t comment on the broader implications, but in my role as advisor to many startups, I do often find myself recommending a focus on many of his key points, which I will paraphrase here: Think in terms of action. Action starts with absolute clarity on the goals you want to achieve.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 5, 2023

Thus my challenge to you is to start today in documenting specific goals , putting some metrics in place to measure progress, and start celebrating every bit of progress, no matter how small, along the way as follows: Convert dreams into specific written objectives. Use self-study and coaching as required.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Document plans and progress, with checkpoints. Be available for mentoring and coaching to others. In my experience, developers can be so committed to a technology, such as hydrogen engines for cars, such that they may be unwilling to change as the business pivots for market reasons.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2021

Perhaps you need to do more to be a role model for accountability , and provide more coaching on exactly what it means. Don’t forget to document lessons learned, so that others who may follow in your footsteps will benefit. For example, a couple of years ago, Starbucks' chief executive officer, Kevin R.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 2, 2014

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. And I can tell you from first-hand experience this is EXACTLY what goes on inside startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

These collective sets of documents form the basis of what somebody looking at investing would call “financial due diligence.” What happens is 18–20 firms access the data room and download all of your documents. I hired a sales coach named Kai Krickle who helped me figure out how to close more deals. It doesn’t.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2020

We all have fears of the unknown, but the best of you will document the challenges ahead of you, and tackle them one by one with a plan, getting the help and learning from each success and failure. The best business people are also the best mentors and coaches. Face and conquer your fear of a step into the unknown.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Be wary if the term sheet is a document longer than your business plan. Academic coach investors. Coaching should be expected and appreciated, but you don’t have time for constant tutorials on how to run a business. Violation of abstract clauses may be used as a way to push you out, take over the company or pull the investment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2016

I saw the key ones outlined well in a recent book, “ Creating High Performers ,” by William Dann, a leading coach to experienced CEOs. Your standards for product quality, sales growth, and customer satisfaction must be documented and reviewed prior to results and performance reviews.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2018

Any startup coach or business advisor will tell you that, on your way to being a great chef, you don't start your journey by inventing the ultimate entre. Finally you create and document your recipe (business plan). In all cases, don’t skip the basic training.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Others schedule long and exhaustive practice and coaching sessions for everyone on the team, including showcase customers, to make sure that everyone tells the most positive and consistent story. Usually this stage only really starts after an investor has expressed serious interest, or already informally agreed to invest.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2019

Each of us can remember a time when we prepared a report that no one read, or filed physical documents never used, and no one seemed to care. Many companies also promote local mentoring and coaching opportunities. For an employee who enjoys direct people interaction, adding floor time with customers would better serve everyone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2018

Since I’m not a life coach, I can’t comment on the broader implications, but in my role as advisor to many startups, I do often find myself recommending a focus on many of his key points, which I will paraphrase here: Think in terms of action. Action starts with absolute clarity on the goals you want to achieve.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2018

In the case of the investment they are often also not only committing personal risk of looking bad at their partnership if things don’t go well but also countless hours of board meetings, financial reviews, legal documents across what is often 7–10 years or more. So it should be no surprise that “yes” doesn’t come easily.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2019

I found him a coach, and we suggested the following steps that may help you as well in declining requests from peers, without leading with the “no” that you find hard to express: Ask for a small delay, to give you time to think. After some tough love by me, he admitted that he just couldn’t say no to all the people around him asking for help.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Any startup coach or business advisor will tell you that, on your way to being a great chef, you don't start your journey by inventing the ultimate entre. Finally you create and document your recipe (business plan). In all cases, don’t skip the basic training.

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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. So today should of course by Wife Appreciation Day as much as Mother’s Day. Our two young boys are now at about the halfway point in their childhoods.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2016

Since I’m not a life coach, I can’t comment on the broader implications, but in my role as advisor to many startups, I do often find myself recommending a focus on many of his key points, which I will paraphrase here: Think in terms of action. Action starts with absolute clarity on the goals you want to achieve.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 12, 2016

Thus, it pays to document your daily thoughts so you can later recall and combine them with subsequent hunches. Get A Coach. Like athletes, entrepreneurs benefit greatly from a coach, in the form of a caring mentor. As Stephen Johnson demonstrates in Where Good Ideas Come From , epiphanies are rare.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2011

All distributors are obliged to sign documents stating that they would not use any of their commissions for payments to foreign officials. Distributors willingly signed the required documents, since they were threatened by corporate with cancellation if they did not comply. However, in reality the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2012

I often coach that this period is often when you can engender great confidence from the partner. There are some partners that after the first meeting ask for belt-and-braces document exchange. They want to see your cap table, your legal documents, your major contracts, your full financial model, etc.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

They write into their investment documents that they will occupy a seat on the board for as long as they are invested in the company, thinking of this as a protection for their investment and tool for them to influence growth. All other board functions are secondary. Of course they should not.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2010

I had to understand their business requirements and document them all. He coached me that I had to start with the answers. I next moved into system design where I designed computer systems to deal with large industrial natural gas customers and telecommunication companies. He taught me much that I know about critical thinking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2010

All distributors are obliged to sign documents stating that they would not use any of their commissions for payments to foreign officials. Distributors willingly signed the required documents, since they were threatened by corporate with cancellation if they did not comply.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

During the early stages, you are the company, processes are not documented, you don’t have much help, so you need a fanatical attention to detail. The key is to make decisions from data and feedback, once your business has real customers and real products. Trusting your gut at this stage isn’t good enough. Absolute control.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2017

Be aware that communication is much more than just talking and documenting – it’s active listening, building relationships, and walking the walk as well as the talk. Hire, coach, and train everyone on the team to focus on communication. Better communication facilitates both purpose and execution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2018

Define and document role content and standards for performance. Practice process coaching, but not edicting decisions. As your team grows, and the business pivots, communication of expectations becomes more of a challenge. Don’t assume that your expectations for a given role will be intuitively obvious to the relevant team member.

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