Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

In reality, business success and satisfaction is about doing the right things at the right time, which requires leadership and coaching. But coaching doesn’t always work the way you expect. Trevor is a veteran coach who has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs, organizations, and business families across the country.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2015

Every entrepreneur I know is short on resources, including time, money, and skills. The last thing they can afford is to waste any of these, but in my mentoring and coaching activities, I see it happening all too often. Hire real help and learn to delegate. Too many entrepreneurs confuse action with momentum and results.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2021

Every entrepreneur I know is short on resources, including time, money, and skills. The last thing they can afford is to waste any of these, but in my mentoring and coaching activities, I see it happening all too often. Hire real help and learn to delegate. Too many entrepreneurs confuse action with momentum and results.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2021

By definition, all of you entrepreneurs are leaders, by taking the initiative to start a new company. Most investors will readily admit that they invest in entrepreneur leadership, more so than innovative ideas, but they often find it difficult to separate aspiring leaders from those that are clearly extraordinary.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2018

Every entrepreneur I know is short on resources, including time, money, and skills. The last thing they can afford is to waste any of these, but in my mentoring and coaching activities, I see it happening all too often. Hire real help and learn to delegate. Too many entrepreneurs confuse action with momentum and results.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2021

I continue to see stories of really young entrepreneurs, like this article , profiling 25 kids that made a million dollars before graduating from high school. There are already some good books out there for youth entrepreneurs, such as the classic one from my friends Adam and Matthew Toren, Kidpreneurs: Young Entrepreneurs with Big Ideas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2023

One of the simplest questions I get from aspiring entrepreneurs, and ironically one of the hardest, is “How do I start?” They just aren’t prepared for the life they want, and are really asking me how to learn to be an entrepreneur. Help entrepreneurs with constant learning. Utilize business content curators and coaches.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2023

As an advisor to early-stage entrepreneurs, I see a lot of dreams, but not so many business results. I’ve always wished I had a magic metaphor to motivate the best dreamers to become the best entrepreneurs. A business entity has to be created and real resources applied. Ask for help from advisors and mentor your team.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

So how does the statement above fit into this sandwich of alternatives? Trusted, close resources include sophisticated relatives, friends and business associates who know how to structure a deal as a win-win for you and for them, while allowing you to retain control over your vision and execution.

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socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2019

Earlier this month, the annual Montgomery Summit conference was held in Santa Monica, including a special portion of the conference dedicated to the Rise of the Female Entrepreneur. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2022

He speaks from his own many years as an entrepreneur, executive coach, and keynote speaker. True leaders don’t try to teach leadership – they just look for opportunities to help team members take advantage of their own strengths and insights. Give people the resources they need to succeed.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2012

In an effort to bolster startups and entrepreneurs in the San Fernando, East Ventura and Santa Clarita Valleys, a group has just started a new Center for Entrepreneurship and Growth , which will provide training, coaching, consulting, and other resources for local entrepreneurs. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

com) � backed by local investors Rincon Venture Partners and Bonfire Ventures�is helping to solve that problem, with its career pathing software designed for helping employees at large enterprises figure out what's next. We're a disruptor, the third wave in human resources technology. Los Angeles-based Fuel50 (www.fuel50.com)

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2014

Every entrepreneur I know is short on resources, including time, money, and skills. The last thing they can afford is to waste any of these, but in my mentoring and coaching activities, I see it happening all too often. Hire real help and learn to delegate. Too many entrepreneurs confuse action with momentum and results.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2019

Don’t you wish you were better at saying “no” to all those extraneous requests for a bit of help at work? For example, as a software executive, I once had a talented engineer working for me who was always helping others, to the extent that he consistently missed his own project deadlines, and was ruining his health through lack of sleep.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2015

One of the simplest questions I get from aspiring entrepreneurs, and ironically one of the hardest, is “How do I start?” They just aren’t prepared for the life they want, and are really asking me how to learn to be an entrepreneur. Help entrepreneurs with constant learning. Utilize business content curators and coaches.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 29, 2017

Trusted, close resources include sophisticated relatives, friends and business associates who know how to structure a deal as a win-win for you and for them, while allowing you to retain control over your vision and execution. So how does the statement above fit into this sandwich of alternatives? Trust works both ways.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2023

It seems like every entrepreneur I meet these days is quick to proclaim themselves a visionary, expecting that will give more credibility to their startup idea, and improve their odds with investors. Most true visionary entrepreneurs have unusual energy, creativity, enthusiasm, and a propensity for taking risks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2021

As a long-time business advisor and mentor to entrepreneurs, I consistently find that the most thriving businesses are people-centric, and those team members create the best processes, rather than the other way around. Helping your team motivates them to drive your business. Un-motivated people are also a huge drain on all resources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2020

Many of the entrepreneurs like you that I have met in my role as a business advisor are really product creators versus business creators, convinced that a great product will generate a great business. Entrepreneurs are typically focused on the big picture – creating a vision, purpose, and a long-term strategy.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2010

It was difficult to make the transition to a “top down&# thinker but as a senior executive – and as an entrepreneur – you’re far less effective without this skill in your arsenal. He coached me that I had to start with the answers. That alone will help us solve the problems.&#.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2015

Most entrepreneurs believe they are “different,” but they can’t quite understand how. The classic book, “ Hunting in a Farmer's World: Celebrating the Mind of an Entrepreneur ,” by serial entrepreneur and business coach John F. All this made more sense to me as Dini defined the types of entrepreneurs into four categories.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2020

It seems like every entrepreneur I meet these days is quick to proclaim themselves a visionary, expecting that will give more credibility to their startup idea, and improve their odds with investors. Most true visionary entrepreneurs have unusual energy, creativity, enthusiasm, and a propensity for taking risks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

As an advisor to early-stage entrepreneurs, I see a lot of dreams, but not so many business results. I’ve always wished I had a magic metaphor to motivate the best dreamers to become the best entrepreneurs. A business entity has to be created and real resources applied. Ask for help from advisors and mentor your team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2014

Most entrepreneurs believe they are “different,” but they can’t quite understand how. A recent book, “ Hunting in a Farmer''s World: Celebrating the Mind of an Entrepreneur ,” by serial entrepreneur and business coach John F. All this made more sense to me as Dini defined the types of entrepreneurs into four categories.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2023

In my experience, new startup businesses are initiated primarily by these standalone innovators, popularly called entrepreneurs. These personas are sought out in every company to better understand an initiative and plug gaps in ideas and plans, and recommend required resources and tactical moves.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2016

One of the simplest questions I get from aspiring entrepreneurs, and ironically one of the hardest, is “How do I start?” They just aren’t prepared for the life they want, and are really asking me how to learn to be an entrepreneur. Help entrepreneurs with constant learning. Utilize business content curators and coaches.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 10, 2011

The format of the meetings is to have several entrepreneurs present their projects and to have an interactive discussion from the attendees with comments, suggestions and ideas for the presenters. The goal for the entrepreneurs is to receive coaching, mentoring and resources for their companies. See [link] (more)

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Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

However, most often, these funds are solicited by a well-meaning entrepreneur from investors who are not qualified as accredited investors under the law (currently requiring a proved income of $200,000 a year or $1 million in net worth for an individual investor). Dave’s book and ebook on raising money available on Amazon.com.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2010

Women entrepreneurs are starting small businesses at approximately twice the national average for all startups. As a result, there have also been many new resources popping up specifically aimed at women. It is always best to forge relationships with contacts before you need help from them. Network like a social butterfly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2022

I saw these summarized clearly in a new book, “ BUILD ,” by a well-known entrepreneur and technologist from Silicon Valley, Tony Fadell. Provide tools and resources as required. The challenge for many bosses is to recognize when their team should be coaching them. Get advice before jumping to conclusions.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2020

This week, Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures announced a brand new effort to provide health and wellness to the founders of companies it invests in, helping those founders with well being, mental health, stress management, coaching, and leadership development. It's a comprehensive bucket.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Women entrepreneurs are starting small businesses at approximately twice the national average for all startups. As a result, there have also been many new resources and mentors popping up specifically aimed at women. But a key problem the authors found even among the best women entrepreneurs was trying to do too much at once.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Most entrepreneurs believe they are “different,” but they can’t quite understand how. The classic book, “ Hunting in a Farmer's World: Celebrating the Mind of an Entrepreneur ,” by serial entrepreneur and business coach John F. All this made more sense to me as Dini defined the types of entrepreneurs into four categories.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2016

It seems like every entrepreneur I meet these days is quick to proclaim themselves a visionary, expecting that will give more credibility to their startup idea, and improve their odds with investors. Most true visionary entrepreneurs have unusual energy, creativity, enthusiasm, and a propensity for taking risks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2014

Also dont confuse a business advisor with a business coach. An advisors aim is to teach you what to do and how, in specific situations, unlike a coach who helps you develop your generic skills for deciding what to do and how. The advisor helps the entrepreneur fill an experience gap, and a coach helps fill a skill gap.

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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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