Berkonomics

JUNE 22, 2017

And the prime motivators of this massive destruction are the same class of entrepreneurs and innovators that have done it before. White- collar jobs most at risk to the rise of artificial intelligence and machine learning are those in middle management, commodity salespeople, journalists, report writers, and even doctors. Thought so.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2020

According to recent reports , these come from all the way up and down the age and experience spectrum, including up to ninety percent of the current Baby Boomers, as well as Millennials. By hiring contract experts, less oversight and coaching is needed. Focus on a very flat organization, with minimal hierarchy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Every entrepreneur and business executive I know wants to emulate that boss, but most can’t even describe the attributes required. In my opinion, great examples in today’s entrepreneur world include Elon Musk (Tesla), Jeff Bezos (Amazon), and Richard Branson (Virgin Group). Measure by relationships as well as competitiveness.

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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. In most cases, the lifestyle questions asked and the answers given are essentially the same for all entrepreneurs, whether they be men or women. To help you, find a coach, create a system, join a group, or get a partner.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

It’s what life was like as an entrepreneur. But this is nothing like the stress of being an entrepreneur. What’s it really like being an entrepreneur? You probably follow some high-profile entrepreneurs on Instagram and Twitter and see conference pictures of them in Davos, Mexico, Monaco or wherever.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2018

One of the lessons I have learned over the years as a business executive, and now as a mentor to entrepreneurs, is that if you really want employees who enthusiastically take ownership of their work, you have to start treating them like owners, not renters. Provide employee feedback and coaching in real time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2021

Are you often frustrated that people reporting to you, or key peers, seem to dodge accountability for their actions? Perhaps you need to do more to be a role model for accountability , and provide more coaching on exactly what it means. He later closed more than 8,000 of his stores for a day to provide employee racial-bias training.

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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. I mostly like to have coverage in the tech press where most of my customers (entrepreneurs) and business partners (other VCs) are. You should focused on getting coverage where your users are.”

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2020

In addition, according to recent reports , the size of employee paychecks ranks behind advancement opportunities and work-life balance as the key reasons people are burned out with their job. Make sure your objectives and rewards motivate employees through innovation, and desired training and coaching.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

We have significant VC commitments (listed below) – every entering company will get $50,000 in funding, mentorship from top VCs and successful entrepreneurs plus free office space. Report Card. Sometrics – Acquired by American Express for a reported $30m after being funded by Greycroft Ventures & Steamboat.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2016

In case you don’t understand the urgency, just be aware that according to a recent Forrester report , nearly 95 percent of your competitors are saying that providing a good customer experience is their top strategic priority. The bar is being raised, so every entrepreneur needs new initiatives just to stay in the ballgame.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 5, 2016

rhubarb studios, the Los Angeles-based venture studio that helps entrepreneurs bring their ideas to life, announced that it raised $1 million in seed funding. We built our venture studio using the same processes that we apply to design and grow all startups that go through our [build] program,” said rhubarb studios co-founder Cauri Jaye.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Why is it that only the most successful entrepreneurs , including Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Richard Branson, admit to having a mentor and actually use them? Yet many entrepreneurs I know are too proud or too shy to even ask for advice. Most mentors don’t have the time to be your business coach to help you with generic skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2019

As an advisor to entrepreneurs for many years, I strongly disagree, and still see the value of at least combining intuition with logical analysis, as we face customers and markets driven by relationships, emotions, and unpredictable social trends. The venerable Steve Jobs was reportedly in the same category.

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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

APRIL 4, 2016

Every entrepreneur and business executive I know wants to emulate that boss, but most don’t can’t even describe the attributes required. In my opinion, great examples in today’s entrepreneur world include Elon Musk (Tesla), Jeff Bezos (Amazon), and Richard Branson (Virgin Group). Measure by relationships as well as competitiveness.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2014

I like to get a mix of people who have reported to the candidate, whom the candidate has reported to (2x) and peers. By the way, I also strongly advise that entrepreneurs reference VCs. Plus, if she does have areas where we could coach her on improvement it would help to know that coming in.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

As an advisor to entrepreneurs and new business owners, I’ve long observed that one of the toughest challenges is people change management in the team. I found some help in this regard in a new book, “ Power Your Tribe ,” by Christine Comaford, who has been a business leadership and culture coach for the past 30 years.

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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 10, 2017

New managers are generally taught not to build personal relationships with direct reports – in case you have to discipline them later. Personnel people talk primarily about spending time with and coaching poor performers. Yet top performers are the most responsive to coaching, and can leverage your help much more effectively.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

MARCH 9, 2011

Investors and entrepreneurs who won at the fundraising game during and after the Great Recession offer advice on landing equity money. To help you get a jump-start with fundraising, I’ve gathered tips from active early-stage investors and entrepreneurs who managed to beat the odds by raising capital during and after the Great Recession.

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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. Coach others on how to get to the next level. Business leadership requirements change just like market requirements. Watch carefully the words you use.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Some entrepreneurs make the mistake of never devolving power. Naturally the countries reacted negatively to reporting to a centralized figure in the UK (and of course to no longer reporting to the CEO). So you internalize much as a CEO, which is why groups like YPO are so important for super successful entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

We try to hire people who we believe will be upfront and respectful of entrepreneurs and know that it’s far easier to judge ones decisions on the outside than it actually is to have to make the tough decisions inside of a startup every day. Empowerment is hard for most startup entrepreneurs. Happy New Year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2011

Justice Department and SEC reported imposing over $1.5 He resides on the West Coast, and has long helped entrepreneurs there, as well as providing turn-around assistance as interim CEO, and International coaching. In a recent update by Thomson-Reuters , the U.S. billion in penalties on companies in 2010.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2011

I had organized European operations into regions and the country manager for Italy reported to the central European manager based in Germany. 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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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Cash Warren (@cash_warren) - producer, entrepreneur, president of Verso Entertainment. Cathy Brooks (@CathyBrooks) - Strategic Communications Coach. Derrick N (@ashong) - musician, artist, activist, and entrepreneur. Julie Steelman (@JulieSteelman) - Entrepreneur's Selling Expert. Steve Franklin (@SEF4PRES) - Teacher.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2010

I had organized European operations into regions and the country manager for Italy reported to the central European manager based in Germany. 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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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

More recently, we licensed our platform to leadership guru Marshall Goldsmith, so that he could transform his $200,000 coaching engagements into a virtual program, so that a much wider audience could benefit from Marshall's process and work. Tags: startup author entrepreneur interview genie knowledge sindell milo.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

before which is second-time entrepreneurs. Report Content February 27, 2010 at 11:05am by Antone Johnson Great interview. of Internet entrepreneurs following up on the successes of the first generation (Overture, etc.). So, we have been very successful in the area of innovating business models. What is happening in L.A.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2016

The reality is that entrepreneurs usually don’t have the money or time for executive recruiters to do the filtering and selection for them. Provide required team integration, training and ongoing coaching. Attracting, evaluation and hiring direct reports is a task that should never be delegated.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2017

As an entrepreneur advisor and startup investor, it always amazes me how obvious these alignment issues are from the outside, and how hard it is to make them visible inside and get them corrected. Improve reporting structure support (vertical alignment). Give people the right skills to deliver (competency alignment).

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

The basic components are obvious: talented founders, great engineers, angel money, venture capital, access to larger corporates (for business, funding & talent), great education / research (for IP breakthroughs) and a sufficient ecosystem of mentors, advisors, executive coaches and mavens. CincyTech today has $28.5 We have invested $17.3

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2017

I have found that the most successful entrepreneurs and business executives have an impressive work ethic, and they surround themselves with a team of comparable commitment. For your own business, the right time to address expected norms is during coaching and before hiring. Starting and running a business is hard.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2010

As your company grows, this person should reside at corporate headquarters and report solid line to the head of international operations. In addition this person should report, dotted line, to product development or engineering. Tags: entrepreneur startup software localization translation business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2010

I recommend a fixed agenda segment where each attendee distributes and discusses a one page written report. The report is to follow a specific format including progress, problems, and plans. There is nothing so frustrating or ineffective as a meeting run by a surrogate, used for personal tirades, or dragged off track by a vocal member.

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