Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 4, 2014

Nowhere is the politics more difficult than with co-founders, which is why for years I’ve spoken publicly about “ the co-founder mythology.” ” Of course we all go into businesses expecting to be aligned with our co-founders but over time life changes. Equity for the future? We discussed it as a group.

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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. Tell us about this new program? It's a comprehensive bucket.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Clovers said its product uses "conversational intelligence" to provide real-time hiring questions for interviews, offering up what it says are "unbiased" question for interviews, and providing post-interview candidate insights, and post-mortem interviewer coaching. The company is being led by CEO Doug Leonard.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2020

Due to founder visibility, the team is so tuned in to the visionary and current direction that every turn to the right to pursue a new idea turns the whole team to the right. They enjoy the coaching and development role, and are able to match work assignments to people’s strengths, promoting both people and company growth.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2013

I''m spending more of my time recently working with non-technical startup founders who are having challenges with their software/web/mobile development teams. These are often the same things that cause a founder to reach out to me about helping their CTO, VP Engineering, tech team, off-shore development, etc. Walls quickly go up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Even if you were an “A-Player” in your previous organization (top 10-percent performer, high integrity, exceeds on commitments), you had peers and executives around you to provide coaching and keep you centered.

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socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2013

That''s what Los Angeles-based FieldLevel (www.fieldlevel.com) has been working on, making it easier for coaches to network and exchange information on athletes. We spoke with co-founder Brenton Sullivan about the company''s platform, and how it''s hoping to transform the athletic recruiting process. What''s the idea behind FieldLevel?

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2021

The company says it provides its service to help manage merchandise orders for such brands as Coach and retailers like Saks Fifth Avenue, Nordstrom, and Bloomingdale's. The company's co-founders are Heath Wells and Olivia Skuza. The funding was led by Brighton Park Capital and Imaginary Ventures.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Givsum is led by co-founder and CEO Shawn Wehan. The company says it will use the new funding and the startup support from the two accelerators for growing the company into a "global platform".

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

The Founder Institute (www.founderinstitute.com), an entrepreneurial training program that originally launched by Adeo Ressi in Silicon Valley, recently announced that it is setting up shop in Southern California, with branches both in San Diego and Los Angeles. What do participants get out of the Founder Institute?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2019

If the country is to recover financially and politically, new leaders will have to emerge to fill the leadership deficit – new leaders who understand that leadership is a privilege, not an entitlement, according to executive coach Michael Schutzler in his classic book “ Inspiring Excellence – A Path to Exceptional Leadership.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

Some businesses require very little capital and the founder can self-finance the enterprise and retain 100% of its ownership and control from ignition through liquidity event (startup through sale). For those of you who fit that description, nice work.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 16, 2021

Along with the funding, the company said it has acquired Lessonly, a developer of sales training, coaching, and enablement software which is based in Indianapolis. Doug Winter is the co-founder and CEO of Seismic. Financial details of that acquisition were not announced. Seismic has now raised $440M in total funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2015

For one-on-one coaching from the startup founder, I call this approach five-minute mentoring. Your primary responsibility as a startup founder is to provide vision, leadership and communication to all internal and external team members. Everyone learns best from failures, so failure should never be a feared option.

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socalTECH

MAY 4, 2021

Kajabi's CEO and co-founder is Kenny Rueter. Kajabi's e-commerce tools are focused on helping "knowledge entrepreneurs" monetize their expertise, helping them create websites, online courses, coaching programs, membership sites and more.

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socalTECH

MAY 27, 2020

According to ServiceTitan, Pointman combines operations management software for contractors with ongoing coaching, analysis, feedback, and peer connections. The company is led by CEO and co-founder Ara Mahdessian. Pointman is based in Buffalo, New York, and was founded in 2006. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2015

Demand for coaching, counseling, and discipline training is high. Managers need training in coaching, counseling, and discipline because they resist or have difficulty communicating with team members. Toxic relationships are emotional, often personal, disagreements which are counter-productive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2023

Savvy investors tell me that startup founders who claim to have never failed are either lying or have never tried anything innovative. Training and coaching. Ongoing coaching from the top is essential to maintain the attitude and spirit. Inspiration requires a vision, and an ability to communicate it to others. Idea management.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2022

For one-on-one coaching from the startup founder, I call this approach five-minute mentoring. Your primary responsibility as a startup founder is to provide vision, leadership and communication to all internal and external team members. Everyone learns best from failures, so failure should never be a feared option.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Panel includes: Tara Hannaford, Founder of GoTYM Inc and Vice President of Sales at Casamigos Tequila; Scott Fox, Startup Advisor/Executive, Serial Entrepreneur, CEO, Author, Angel Investor; Jeff Greenberg, Technology Executive, Entrepreneur, Startup Coach, Professor, Author; and Mark Lam, Founder and CEO at Pristine Group/Law Firm.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

As a result of the investment Initialized’s Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit, is taking a seat on the company’s board of directors. Gloria co-founders, Matias Castello and Victoire Cogevina, and Initialized co-founder Alexis Ohanian.

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socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2020

According to TotSquad founder Jennifer, it will now shift its focus to offering virtual services, including doula coaching, lactation support, sleep consultation and moreespecially helpful for new parents who are confined at home in the midst of shelter-in-place orders and limited in-person provider appointments.

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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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socalTECH

MAY 19, 2016

Los Angeles-based March Capital Partners is the lead investor in Berlin-based Dojo Madness , a developer of e-sports content and coaching tools, as part of a $4.5M The company's founders include Jens Hilgers, founder and chairman of Turtle Entertainment/ESL. funding round, Dojo Madness revealed today. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2022

Works with other team members on mutual aspirations (coach metaphor). It is not about leaders becoming coaches; it’s about leaders letting themselves be coached by others – advisors, team members, and even customers. Evolve from guru to guide, and coaching others to find answers for themselves.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2021

Myers, a noted career coach, and author of the classic book, “ Get The Job You Want, Even When No One’s Hiring ,” many job seekers and career changers make the mistake of halting all their efforts as summer approaches, believing that nobody will be hiring until early fall. Invest in career coaching. According to Ford R.

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socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2019

We spoke with ProGuides founder Sam Wang to better understand what the company does, and why users are joining its service and using its marketplace to find professional video game coaches. After finishing a course, we've found they likely also want to find a coach. That allows them to find a coach to help them play better.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

He suggested an idea that comes from the NFL called “ The Rooney Rule ” enacted in 2003 in an effort to end the era of all-white football coaches in a league with > 75% African American players. Upfront has consistently ranked in the top decile of investments to female founders and the top 20% of investment team diversity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

The classic book, “ Hunting in a Farmer's World: Celebrating the Mind of an Entrepreneur ,” by serial entrepreneur and business coach John F. I now believe that the roots of the difference may go back more than 10,000 years, when hunting and farming became two different lifestyles.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2012

I wonder sometimes if founders even know about the hours their lawyers or advisers put in on evenings, weekends, vacations. I had dinner with my friend Brooke Hammerling , founder of Brew PR recently. And speaking of coaching, if you haven’t read Googled by Ken Auletta you should. EXECUTIVE COACHES. No exceptions.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

She provides some great guidance, based on coaching experience and a doctorate in clinical psychology, on recognizing and resolving the most troubling management issues for leaders in all stages of an organization: I’m a good leader. Engagement drives performance and satisfaction. Remember, we are all human, and we will make mistakes.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

AKUA co-founder and CEO Courtney Boyd Myers. The co-founders initially thought of replacing the unsustainable part of food — factory farming — with regenerative ocean farming. The total funds include backing from a Republic campaign, pre-seed investors and capital from the co-founders. Image Credits: AKUA.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 15, 2019

The largest club, in Mayfair, has five floors and boasts more than 12,000 square feet and features rooftop terraces, a dedicated space for coaching and mentoring, a small restaurant and a bar. A spokesperson for the company said that the new financing would value the company at roughly $100 million.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 29, 2021

The newly minted founder joined the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator , where she developed a curriculum to teach people how to repair EV chargers. It was here that she met Ellis, a career coach at LACI who also worked at the Long Beach Job Corp Center. . “I thought, if I can figure this stuff out, then anyone can.”

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 29, 2019

I recently sat down with Founder & CEO Delane Parnell to talk about his company’s formation and growth strategy. As a player, what that experience means is you play on a team, in a position, with a coach, in a season that culminates in some sort of championship.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2014

The Founder and CEO of Belkin International , Chet has achieved what to most entrepreneurs remains an elusive buzzword: ubiquity. You would have found me coaching youth soccer teams on the weekends. The post Digital Family Reunion Honors Belkin Founder Chet Pipkin appeared first on TechZulu. See you there!

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2021

Once you are able to achieve some real “traction” with your business (paying customers, revenue stream), it may seem the time to relax a bit, but in fact this is the point where many founders start to flounder. Most founders form very close relationships with the small team that gets the startup off the ground, and that is important.

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