Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2018

In my view, the most effective entrepreneurs are those with a background of an array of real-life experiences, both positive and negative, as well as good academic and coaching activities. Most universities have formal incubator and business development organizations that focus on coaching, grant writing and technology licensing.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 12, 2016

There are a number of tasks you can perform that will allow you to train in the art of entrepreneurship while you are in school or working at a large organization. If you are a student, do something bodacious within the confines of a club or student organization. Modern day entrepreneurs use Evernote, Google Keep, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

VCs should be more of a coach than proscriptively telling you what to do. I think of VCs as coaches. But successful coaches find a way to get the most out of all the existing players on the field and avoid too much unnecessary trading. I call them “ VCs Seagulls.” FourSquare. Everywhere.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

We all like to think of startups as “non hierarchic&# organizations and to some extent that should be true. I never built a Google-sized business but I did build an organization from scratch that grew to 120 employees in 5 countries before we sold it. The organization gets used to it and adjusts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2016

In my view, the most effective entrepreneurs are those with a background of an array of real-life experiences, both positive and negative, as well as good academic and coaching activities. Most universities have formal incubator and business development organizations that focus on coaching, grant writing and technology licensing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

In my view, the most effective entrepreneurs are those with a background of an array of real-life experiences, both positive and negative, as well as good academic and coaching activities. Most universities have formal incubator and business development organizations that focus on coaching, grant writing and technology licensing.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

A flat organization is one where there is no (or very few) levels of management in between staff and executives. It would almost seem wrong not to mention Google on a list of companies with great culture. Google has been synonymous with culture for years, and sets the tone for many of the perks and benefits startups are now known for.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

A flat organization is one where there is no (or very few) levels of management in between staff and executives. It would almost seem wrong not to mention Google on a list of companies with great culture. Google has been synonymous with culture for years, and sets the tone for many of the perks and benefits startups are now known for.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

Lisa is a skilled public speaking coach. Jeff was tweeting about needing help organizing and promoting the upcoming #140conf LA Meetup. My first step in organizing the #140conf LA Meetup was to reach out to my contacts to drum up volunteers, sponsors, venue providers, and attendees. I’m honored. They are all rockstars!

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 11, 2014

We observe them in their daily lives and interactions with their teachers, coaches and friends and we look on with pride and the wonderful little human beings they have become. So today should of course by Wife Appreciation Day as much as Mother’s Day. Our two young boys are now at about the halfway point in their childhoods.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

It is true that every few years a fund exits that delivers smashing results because it has Facebook, Google or Twitter in it. And Coach Campbell. And to finally admitting that ads weren’t evil so that Google could copy the model of the fast growing Overture. But as an LP you can’t count on that any more than VCs can.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2017

These authors, who both have extensive credentials as executive coaches with top tier business leaders around the world, detail six factors of change that every business needs to address today to keep ahead of the wave. Historically, organizations played down the role of work-based personal relationships.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2015

Be willing to work at all organization levels. Google and social media have transformed the business world. The startup world today doesn’t need consultants, but they do need specialists and professionals with experience and expertise who can do the job, and provide coaching while producing results, at a predictable cost.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

The goal for this organization is four-fold: To provide mentorship for some of the most promising young companies based in Los Angeles or willing to relocate to LA. We always wanted to be seen as a “mentorship organization” where people are asked to give back to their community. For the past 2.5

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 9, 2013

While looking for an island destination to unwind at after taking her bar exam she randomly Googled “small beach town Central America surfing” and soon found herself in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua. to make her way to lunch with someone at the Pan American Health Organization , the Latin branch of the World Health Organization (WHO).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

In the first two years we were really focused on getting our product adopted through major channel partners like Commission Junction, LinkShare, Google, eBay, ShareASale and others. how to build an initial sales organization. As we have invested millions in building out our sales organization efficiency really matters.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

Most begin by doing the product development, marketing and sales alone, but struggle making the transition to hiring and coaching others, defining repeatable processes and focusing on future strategy. Limit your scaling efforts to organic growth. The challenge is to move from doing the work to managing the work and leading others.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

He has grown our US operations from 1 employee (him) to a global organization of 75 employees that will finish the year with 8-digit revenues (90+% recurring) and more than 350% year-over-year growth. So naturally we’re pushing for him to drop critical information when their paths cross organically. Have topics. And improve.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

As part of your launch, we can integrate Google or Paypal payment options into the login page. 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.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 5, 2012

As Avesta Rasouli, SWLA Co-organizer and Founder of Coloft says, “Go sell something! Tyler Crowley, of Sqweal, Launch, ThisWeekInStartups, Open Angel Forum, and Mahalo, stopped by to give a quick coaching session on pitch prep. Coffee is for closers!” Sunday morning rolled around and it was down to crunch-time.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

I hired a sales coach named Kai Krickle who helped me figure out how to close more deals. If they prefer not to meet (they’re rationally trying to be judicious with time) you can politely request that perhaps you could just do it on a web conference call (Xoom, Google Hangouts, Skype, whatever.)

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits. So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. We met everybody in the organization. Somebody had gotten to somebody senior in the Thames organization. They had agreed!

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits. So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. We met everybody in the organization. Somebody had gotten to somebody senior in the Thames organization. They had agreed!

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2012

Obviously if we continue in discussions with you we would be more than happy to organize reference calls for you to validate our success. And I should tell you that some VCs with whom I’ve debated this topic think it’s always fair play to call your friends at Facebook, Google, Salesforce or wherever to get feedback on you early.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

ABC Family, Fox, Universal Music, Google, Facebook, Demand Media, MyLife, Riot Games, DFJ Frontier, Rustic Canyon, GRP Partners, Siemer and Associates, Marketshare, Saatchi Online, OMD, Ignited, Rubicon Project, Smashbox Cosmetics, NFL, UCLA, USC, and dozens of start-ups. Companies represented include: Disney, Warner Bros.,

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2009

It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits ;-). We met everybody in the organization. Somebody had gotten to somebody senior in the Thames organization. Don’t get me wrong – I’m not a sore loser. But we worked the account tirelessly for months.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Other firms like Google bring massive resources to design or engineering and as as corporate VC can offer things normal VC firms can’t offer. We also speak a lot about the role that executive coaches can play at companies in improving management coherence and alignment and we want to bring in outsiders to better help us work as a team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2019

Even for self-published books, you get visibility through the Amazon website worldwide, Google searches for related topics, book reviews, and various online catalogs. If you sell to other business organizations, a book is a huge asset in reducing their perceived selection risk. Having a book gives you instant credibility with clients.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

The “ TenHands ” name emerged from the concept and philosophy of John Wooden, the UCLA basketball coach, who emphasized the value of teamwork and insisted that all ten hands (five players) touch the ball before shooting. Our client software is a true browser plug-in (no Flash) that’s based on Google’s WebRTC open source project.

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