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5 Ways To Kickstart Your Business Coaching Reputation

Startup Professionals Musings

Image via Pixabay I’ve always been a bit confused about the difference in a business context between a coach and a mentor. According to many pundits , a mentor shows you the right way based on experience, while a coach brings out the best in you, then let’s you find your own way. Build your team first with only these people.

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Nothing good happens after midnight!

Berkonomics

Good managers are good students – easily coached by those on their boards or advisors who have been through eh rough times in their business lives. So, it is true for us in business too. Nothing good happens after midnight – that event when money or time catches up to our business plan and begins to bite.

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The most satisfying life journey is never about the money.

Berkonomics

And yet, as I recall the greatest thrills, the memorable events, the best of memories, almost none are about the money. You’ll quickly be drawn into the governance of the organization and introduced into the process of discovery, coaching, leading deals, herding investors, serving on boards and helping entrepreneurs toward liquidity events.

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Need investment capital?

Berkonomics

I was so enthusiastic that I coached the entrepreneur to approach his mother, who invested $50,000 under the same terms as my investment. A small venture firm and a few more angels rounded out the total investment.

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Here are five TACTICAL skills of a great leader.

Berkonomics

It is hard to coach or teach leadership in a few paragraphs. There is no greater feeling than to achieve a goal and to celebrate that with some form of out-of-the-ordinary event. But let’s try by limiting this short insight to a list of the five principal tactical skills of a great leader. Fifth: celebrate.

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LA CEOs: Building High Performing Cultures

SoCal Tech Calendar

In this highly interactive session, Carrie Kish Partner and CEO for CultureSync,www.culturesync.net, a management consulting firm specializing in cultural change, executive coaching, and strategy, shows qualified CEO and CFOs how to upgrade their organization. This event is restricted to qualified CEOs and CFOs ONLY, no service providers.

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Turn the tables: What’s an angel look like?

Berkonomics

Angel investors, particularly those in organized angel groups, are typically former entrepreneurs who have had successful liquidity events in their pasts, or executives of companies who’ve retired with the funds from their stock options. Networking events are great starting points. Order all 3 Berkonomics books for $49.95,a

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