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. He told me to stop responded to RFPs where I wasn’t the person who helped write the specs for the RFPs. He told me, “if you didn’t help shape the RFP somebody else did and you’ve already lost.” How should I best prepare for that?”

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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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2016

We then help surround founders with other talent who want to join important causes but don’t have the startup idea themselves. We help founders through difficult moments, we help coach, we act as sparring partners, we help them resolve conflicts when they’re fighting with co-founders and we help them deal with adversity as well as successes.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

He had an idea for a startup that would help consumers better book service jobs and would take on Service Magic, which he believed had a business model that could be disrupted. I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan. When Ethan was considering leaving Google we talked about it. The company was called Red Beacon.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 23, 2017

The telematic technology is intended to help fleet managers reduce risk by coaching operators to be safer drivers. SmartDrive, founded in 2004, specializes in dashboard video cameras and related analytic technology to identify dangerous driving behavior.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 27, 2013

” If your company was featured there (in the early days of what people called Web 2.0) After that a meme developed amongst many startups (and the advisors that coached them) that, “TechCrunch didn’t matter. You should focused on getting coverage where your users are.” It’s the Wikipedia of tech startups.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 13, 2012

Los Angeles-based Kidworth (www.kidworth.com) is looking to both help kids learn about entrepreneurship, and more importantly, make it easy for them to set up an online store, sell their services or products, and even handle things like collecting payments via credit card. How does Kidworth help them with that?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

Web Summit. You have to decide how hard to help with downstream marketing for your deals. A little Groucho Marx always helps. This is when founders need you the most – either are coach, mentor, interviewer, work off-loader or honest-mirror-reflection of reality. And there’s conferences. Oh, the conferences.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Dr. Yager is a real guru on this subject, having been a productivity coach, trainer, and author for many years, and still found time to squeeze out over 30 books, including five related to this subject. This can help to force you to stay ‘on task’ rather than mindlessly working the issue of the moment.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

I have vanity urls setup at just about every site on the web. Lisa is an a skilled public speaking coach. We will collaborate on ideas and projects and we created the Superfriends together, a group of local entrepreneurs that will gather to share ideas and help each other grow personally and professionally. I’m honored.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

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. Meet some of the amazing organizations that partner with the Startup of the Year program, and could be a valuable resource for you to help build your business.

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StartUp Beat

JANUARY 24, 2018

They make great employees, in other words, says Thornton – the co-founder of Coding Autism, a professional coaching and training company for adults on the autism spectrum. We want to engage these teens, we want to help them think about their own futures.”. Geeking out with Tech Kids Unlimited. Coding Autism’s CEO Oliver Thornton.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2014

Dr. Yager is a real guru on this subject, having been a productivity coach, trainer, and author for many years, and still found time to squeeze out over 30 books, including five related to this subject. This can help to force you to stay ‘on task’ rather than mindlessly working the issue of the moment.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

I have vanity urls setup at just about every site on the web. Lisa is a skilled public speaking coach. We created Superfriends, a group of local entrepreneurs that will gather to share ideas and help each other grow personally and professionally. I’ve jumped on the bandwagon, big time! I love Namechk.com for this.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

This morning, Knowledge Genie (www.myknowledgegenie.com) launched a new web site that helps experts and authors publish online information to the web. That became our company Hit the Ground Running, which we launched in 2007 to help a number of Fortune 500 clients with our technology and methodologies.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Before founding CatchFree, Sean ran marketing at LogMeIn and Uproar from launch to NASDAQ IPO filings & helped bring Dropbox, Lookout, and Xobni to market in interim marketing leadership roles. He blogs at startup-marketing.com. He has served on advisory committees for Microsoft, IBM, Novell, and Cisco.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

MARCH 9, 2011

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. Let investors help you refine your pitch. “Most have a strong desire to mentor and help build companies.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

The good news is that he is all about helping early-stage startups. The business accelerator model is YCombinator and TechStars , who select only the best applicants, have a demanding process, provide experienced coaching/mentoring, some seed funding, with a required exit in about six months. Incremental investment may follow.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

To what extent does all the “social” noise and excitement help or hurt your ability to tell SocialStay’s story to potential investors and partners? Social is not a hype movement; it is part of the web’s DNA. Data, social and location are all becoming foundational to the web. However, in the case of SocialStay, it is not hype.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2011

The good news is that he is all about helping early-stage startups, the hard part for entrepreneurs is figuring out what it takes to play. This is a concept coined (and trademarked) by Eric Ries a couple of years ago, primarily for software and web applications. Incremental investment may follow. Lean startup.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 5, 2012

Tyler Crowley, of Sqweal, Launch, ThisWeekInStartups, Open Angel Forum, and Mahalo, stopped by to give a quick coaching session on pitch prep. Tyler has helped coach dozens of companies through pitching and presenting at Launch Conf and formerly TechCrunch 50.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Capital efficient, web-based businesses should have a credible plan to self-sustainability. This simple question will result in real savings and will help to ensure that your employees spend the company’s money as if it were their own. However, do not count on it. Living Below Your Means. Another Reason To Be Like Bill.

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2010

They just can't reach into the class of freshmen, sophomores, or juniors to help companies get better candidates. We took a little trip and said--what are career centers doing, at the most elite schools at America, to help prepare students for jobs--and what companies are they using to do this. What content are they licensing?

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 11, 2021

But for creators seeking to monetize their following, these newer platforms may be more attractive to some creators, since they already have built-in tools to help them monetize their followings. We decided to go with this model because we really want to have a relationship where we help the creators really make money. With its $5.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2019

In addition, the discipline of producing it, like writing a business plan, will help you immensely in understanding the key elements that drive you and your business. Customers pay extra, and inherently gravitate to people they view as leaders, rather than others just pushing advertising and web content.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Often grouped into formal organizations, these investors are sophisticated, helpful, and connected. The European Business Angel Network (EBAN), and similar organizations in other countries including Canada, all have web sites with directories of angel groups that are local to you. Angel investment groups or funds. Venture farms.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

AdWords is on Google.com, AdSense is a distributed platform across many different Web sites where if youre a small publisher and you put AdSense on your Web site and someone clicks, you get part of the revenue and Google gets part of the revenue. Okay, thats AdSense. Well, that technology came from an L.A.

Los Angeles 50

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Berkonomics

APRIL 3, 2014

Often grouped into formal organizations, these investors are sophisticated, helpful, and connected. The European Business Angel Network (EBAN), and similar organizations in other countries including Canada, all have web sites with directories of angel groups that are local to you.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

But I strive to impact the lives of many more through hours of coaching entrepreneurs, challenging people to be better, making human connections for people or providing timely advice. Being helpful doesn’t mean telling every person their ideas are great. Help a young person get their first job. If I need to be blunt I am.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

most Seed or A round deals will be done by an investor in your region so that should help you to focus. He’s focused on that sector (not exclusively but predominantly) and therefore has an amazing network at large financial services firms to help you with business development. Other investors have national practices. Not so much.

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