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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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2023

For example, it has long been widely accepted that one of the primary causes for entrepreneur failure in new startups is that many give up too soon. 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.

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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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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. I often think of the scope of this example in my role as mentor to a struggling entrepreneur who is quick to blame his problems on employee mistakes, or even changing customer expectations.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2018

Every entrepreneur wants to hear “yes” during the fund-raising process but I would argue that being too risk averse and not pushing hard enough and be willing to hear a “no” is what holds back many people from “yes.” Possibly offend and entrepreneur leading to reputation risk amongst other entrepreneurs.

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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. But the book is a must read for entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2018

One of the most important skills for every entrepreneur is timely and effective decision making. The best entrepreneurs relish this role, while others struggle mightily and ultimately lose their health and their company. Your job as entrepreneur or executive does not end with picking a solution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Too many aspiring entrepreneurs I know are very quick to come up with new ideas, but are not so quick on the execution side. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2016

One of the most important skills for every entrepreneur is timely and effective decision making. The best entrepreneurs relish this role, while others struggle mightily and ultimately lose their health and their company. Your job as entrepreneur or executive does not end with picking a solution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2016

Every business wants and needs top performers, but most entrepreneurs and executives assume that if they hire and train the smartest and most experienced people, they will get exceptional performance. I saw the key ones outlined well in a recent book, “ Creating High Performers ,” by William Dann, a leading coach to experienced CEOs.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 12, 2016

If you are in college, advise a High School entrepreneur club. If you are a seasoned executive, work with a team of aspiring entrepreneurs. Ask yourself, “If we hired an entrepreneur, what would they change about the way we do business?” Modern day entrepreneurs use Evernote, Google Keep, etc. Get A Coach.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

Several years ago, John Hamm published some early work on this subject in " Why Entrepreneurs Don''t Scale " in the Harvard Business Review. This is generally a required quality for a successful entrepreneur, but it can turn into an unhealthy stubbornness during the scaling stage. Absolute control. Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2012

I have seen some entrepreneurs go into first meetings willing to share almost anything about their company. I’ve seen this back fire on entrepreneurs who say things like, “Well, we’re not talking financials with investors yet.”. I often coach that this period is often when you can engender great confidence from the partner.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

Good entrepreneurs are all about managing change, but too many forget that they have to change themselves as their dream evolves from a startup to a scalable business. When the business starts to scale, you need documented processes and people with the right skills and training who can do the right work without you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2017

Today I find that some entrepreneurs, are putting all their focus on a social or environmental cause, and perhaps naively expect that purpose alone will lead to a sustainable business. 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

JANUARY 2, 2017

People who are good at solving problems for other people make great entrepreneurs. If you want to improve your strength in this area, or need to coach your team along these lines, I recommend the following steps: Approach every problem as a positive business opportunity. Entrepreneurs are often too passionate and impatient.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Several years ago, John Hamm published some early work on this subject in " Why Entrepreneurs Don't Scale " in the Harvard Business Review. This is generally a required quality for a successful entrepreneur, but it can turn into an unhealthy stubbornness during the scaling stage. Absolute control.

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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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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

AUGUST 10, 2011

Way back in 2002, John Hamm published some early work on this subject in " Why Entrepreneurs Don't Scale " in the Harvard Business Review. This is generally a required quality for a successful entrepreneur, but it can turn into an unhealthy stubbornness during the scaling stage. Absolute control.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

The new war for platforms has mostly been waged by Andreessen Horowitz who have raised astounding amounts of capital and therefore had the fees to put into providing more services for entrepreneurs. From an entrepreneur’s perspective we’re asked to assist in a lot of situations.

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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

JULY 9, 2010

Way back in 2002, John Hamm published some early work on this subject in " Why Entrepreneurs Don't Scale." " From my experience, here is my interpretation of that work, identifying some strengths of an entrepreneur during early startup stages which can become problems for scaling: Perseverance. Absolute control.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2018

Here are some specific actions I now recommend to every entrepreneur, and to every senior executive, to get top performance from every member of their team: Clearly and iteratively communicate team goals and objectives. Define and document role content and standards for performance.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

Yet a critical mistake I see many entrepreneurs make is that they hand over too much control to their third-parties. You thought it was going to be as easy as just having term sheet transferred to a longer form document. But every freakin’ week there are delays in getting the lawyers to “turn around&# the documents.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

It's a very linear process, and allows them to capture knowledge and link to centralized resources that relate to a topic, including documents, pictures, files, video. One of our hopes, aside from creating a way to package knowledge, is to essentially allow entrepreneurs to create their own publishing company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2011

His manager accepted his resignation and documented the case in the personnel files. He resides in Silicon Valley, California, and has long helped entrepreneurs there, as well as providing turn-around assistance as interim CEO and business coach for several companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2010

His manager accepted his resignation and documented the case in the personnel files. He resides in Silicon Valley, California, and has long helped entrepreneurs there, as well as providing turn-around assistance as interim CEO and business coach for several companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2022

One of the attributes that I often recommend to the business professionals and entrepreneurs I mentor is to always be totally accountable for your actions and ideas. Document plans and progress, with checkpoints. Be available for mentoring and coaching to others. Lack of accountability can permeate an entire organization.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

*. What is the role of a VC for entrepreneurs? I was recently contacted by an entrepreneur who was consider a few different business models for his company. My job isn’t to predict markets but rather to find entrepreneurs who want to create markets through insight and conviction.” Document management?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

And you can always bring on a senior person as a mentor / coach to help guide you personally to become a better sales leader until you’re ready for somebody more senior on your team. I was able to hire the former European head of sales for the largest document management player in the world.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2010

And let’s be honest, other than money and coaching most VC’s add little value to your company strategy. It should be inline in the email rather than a document attachment. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. I’m not trying to demean VC’s – I think it’s just reality.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Every entrepreneur should do the same due diligence on a potential investor that smart investors do on their startups. While the majority of investors are looking for a win-win deal, there are investors who like to prey on entrepreneurs who have little financial experience, don’t read the term sheet or are simply desperate for a deal.

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