Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Millennials have come a long way in business since I started writing about them over ten years ago. They started out as that spoiled generation of kids, born between about 1982 and 2004, who had everything, and could care less about business. Today they are in every business and will likely comprise 75 percent of the workforce by 2025.

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socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2019

Once you've exhausted looking online for tips, Los Angeles-based ProGuides (www.proguides.com) offers up professional, instructional content to help you improve your skills at such popular titles as League of Legends, Hearthstone, and Fortnite. How did you start the company? That allows them to find a coach to help them play better.

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socalTECH

JUNE 24, 2016

The startup, led by Joseph Smith, MD, PhD, develops VERA, a software product which is aimed at the physical therapy market. The company's VERA product uses Microsoft's Kinect controller to help monitor and guide patients with their PT exercises. The funding came from current investor West Partners and others. READ MORE>>.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

Fortunately, the Startup of the Year program aims to make it easier for founders to connect with resources. In 2006, a passion to help startups grew into Tech Cocktail , a company whose mission was to showcased burgeoning companies in bars around the country. The Case Foundation (Washington, DC).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2013

As a guide, I enjoyed the analysis of Eric Chester, in his book “ Reviving Work Ethic ,” which provides a leader’s guide to ending entitlement and restoring pride in the emerging workforce. Reliability begins with showing up – being where you are supposed to be when you are supposed to be there. Integrity and coach-ability.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

After many years of working in and starting businesses, I’m convinced that implementing new business ideas is much more difficult than coming up with the ideas. by Erica Peitler, a well-known leadership performance coach. This is an important step in self-coaching, and in coaching others on the team.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 20, 2013

As the NBA playoffs closes to an end in a grueling road to Game 7 between Miami Heats and San Antonio Spurs, it would behoove every startup founder to learn from key elements and strategies of both teams, as lessons from the sport of basketball can directly translate to the success of a startup company. 1) Identifying Team Chemistry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2022

The experts define emotional intelligence as a leader's ability to recognize individual and team emotions, to understand their effect, and manage your own to guide your next move. However, when aspiring leaders ask me how to ramp up their emotional intelligence, I’ve never been able to offer any real formula.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2017

We all know some peers in business who could use some coaching to unleash their potential and optimize performance, but would you know how to do the job if they asked you for help? Most people find it easier and quicker to just do the work themselves, than to guide someone else through the mindset and process needed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2010

Use this as a roadmap to guide and measure your successes and failures. The simplest way to start is to identify channel partners (also known as distributors) to handle your business in specific and well-defined geographic regions. You may want to give a channel partners a head start of a certain time period.

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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. There are many step-by-step guides available, like the one referenced above for women. Plan for funding requirements.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

After many years of working in and starting businesses, I’m convinced that implementing new business ideas is much more difficult than coming up with the ideas. by Erica Peitler, a well-known leadership performance coach. This is an important step in self-coaching, and in coaching others on the team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2022

In a classic book on this subject “ Leading with Your Legacy In Mind ,” Andrew Thorn, PhD, business coach, and psychologist, talks about his work on leadership strategies with business leaders at all levels. When we factor in our aspirations to guide us, we begin to connect to what really gives us value in life. From balance to focus.

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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. Up-line this may be your interaction with your Board, investors, and family.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2015

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. Up-line this may be your interaction with your Board, investors, and family. Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

They become obsessed with why the problem exists and they start chipping away at ideas for solving the problem. We are money, advice, coaching, cheerleading, interventionist but not “the decider.” In my view the best VCs are merely your guides. At best they can be your history guide. Startup Lessons'

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Too many entrepreneurs I know still believe that that their great idea will carry the startup, and they may even minimize their own value, especially if they have introvert tendencies. Everyone needs to realize that whether it’s in the workplace or in the startup community, business is a new world today with new rules.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2013

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. Up-line this may be your interaction with your Board, investors, and family. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2015

In a recent book on this subject “ Leading with Your Legacy In Mind ,” Andrew Thorn, PhD, business coach, and psychologist, talks about his work on leadership strategies with business leaders at all levels. When we factor in our aspirations to guide us, we begin to connect to what really gives us value in life. From balance to focus.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2020

In the spirit of helping you avoid some of our own learning experiences with startups, I will paraphrase here the nine key stages that he and I both see most businesses going through in their evolution from a startup to a successful and stable entity: You can’t sustain a business without positive cash flow.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 26, 2019

link] Their vision was “if Disney were going to build a media company today they wouldn’t start by creating films, they would build compelling characters in a mobile game and then create media products and physical goods in support of the game. I imagined what it would feel like if we worked in this location. It felt pretty, pretty good.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2012

As the new year starts, now is the time to assess your own situation, set out clearly what you expect from each and every team member, and unleash the entrepreneur inside every employee. Reliability begins with showing up – being where you are supposed to be when you are supposed to be there. Integrity and coach-ability.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2022

If you are interested in advancing your leadership, and achieving more success in this new Internet age, here are some principles to guide your focus: Foster the trend to flat teams versus vertical organizations. You need to be a mentor and coach on a regular basis, rather than follow a formal appraisal process that everyone dreads.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2019

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. Up-line this may be your interaction with your Board, investors, and family.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

I found some great insights along these lines in the classic book “ Find Your Balance Point ,” by renowned executive business coach Brian Tracy, and work-life balance therapist Christina Stein. As an investor, I’m not attracted to startups where the founder sends in a marketing person to do the talking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2014

I just finished a new book on this subject “ Leading with Your Legacy In Mind ,” by Andrew Thorn, PhD, business coach, and psychologist, who has worked on leadership strategies with business leaders at all levels. When we factor in our aspirations to guide us, we begin to connect to what really gives us value in life.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Arivale (www.arivale.com), a startup founded by Dr. Leroy Hood, the well known DNA and genomics pioneer�which combines gene sequencing with a host of other diagnostic tests, with personalized counselors and health and wellness recommendations, recently launched an expansion into California, starting in Los Angeles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2018

Millennials have come a long way in business since I started writing about them almost ten years ago. They started out as that spoiled generation of kids, born between about 1982 and 2004, who had everything, and could care less about business. Their success is now vital to our success. Lack of knowledge can prevent it.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2015

As president I had to convince a bunch of college-age students to pay dues, turn up at weekly meetings, manage budgets, doing community service and avoid the kind of behavior that might make your organization defunct. There wasn’t any such thing as skipping the line or raising money to start a tech company.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

From LA Demo Day to Silicon Beach Fest to Crowdstart LA to hackathons to Startup Weekends, companies and entrepreneurs alike have joined forces to feed the startup ecosystem. Startup Weekend is a 54-hour frenzy in which a group of strangers can come together to form a company and compete for prizes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

I found some great insights along these lines in the classic book “ Find Your Balance Point ,” by renowned executive business coach Brian Tracy, and work-life balance therapist Christina Stein. As an investor, I’m not attracted to startups where the founder sends in a marketing person to do the talking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2010

But changes to your startup need to be done for cause, well thought out, and communicated effectively to all impacted parties. Here are a few principles that I recommend to guide you in the change process, and keep you on track and focused: Customers and competition must be the driving force.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The time limit has more to do with setting an expectation that the meeting is not for solving the problem, but coaching on the parameters and the approach. Start by open listening. The mentee must not be afraid to show false starts or a naïve perspective. Your greatest contribution is maintaining focus and guiding the team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2019

Every business owner and professional I know is struggling with their own workload, yet they let themselves get signed up for other people’s work, either out of frustration that things aren’t getting done, or guilt, or just plain sympathy. Offer one-minute mentoring up front, and stick to it.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

Essentially, it guides the author through a four step process to design, build, test, and publish their creation. How did the company start? The plans range up to approximately $190. Our online publishing platform allows users to monetize and share what they know. We have patents filed on this process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2017

Leaders who are able to optimize these find multipliers of 20 percent up to nine times the average productivity. Like most investors in startups, I rank the credentials of the team well above the value of an idea in deciding where to put my money. Build a culture guided by principles, not rules.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2010

The time limit has more to do with setting an expectation that the meeting is not for solving the problem, but coaching on the parameters and the approach. Management by walking around” in a good start. The mentee must not be afraid to show false starts or a naïve perspective. Start by open listening. Give it a try.

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