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Interview with Mike Napoli, Tech Coast Angels

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Investors are very focused on diligence, on business models that make sense, and those companies that have a definite competitive advantage and defensibility to what they're doing. Mike Napoli: We've revised the way we review companies at the prescreening stage. We've simplified our form, but we still get incomplete information.

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Why You Should Enlist a Business Mentor, Or Be One

Startup Professionals Musings

In my experience working with startups, the best approach these days is to find and use a good mentor (been there, done that). Of course, mentoring is not new – it’s been the favored way to learn arts and crafts since way back in the middle ages. But I assert that mentoring in business is making a comeback.

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Launchpad LA – More Details Revealed

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Applications are due April 6th, 2010, the form is on the website and the Twitter address is @launchpadlad. Encourage the most successful LA tech entrepreneurs who had previously started companies to get involved as mentors, instructors or just informal advisors. We will be selecting 10 startup companies to participate.

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7 Key Steps To Getting Top Performance From Your Team

Startup Professionals Musings

Practice process coaching, but not edicting decisions. I recently was an advisor to a very strong technical executive who insisted on “being involved” in literally every decision in his startup. He ignored my advice and ultimately lost several key executives, and then his own health, due to stress and workload.

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Omkar Kulkarni On The Cedars-Sinai, Techstars Health Accelerator

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The idea is to have a partnership between Cedars-Sinai and Techstars, where we select ten healthcare startup companies focused on innovative technology and care delivery in healthcare. Both sets of mentors re really united to help drive the pace of growth of these startups, must faster than they might have grown traditionally.

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Omkar Kulkarni On The Cedar Sinai-Techstars Health Accelerator

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The idea is to have a partnership between Cedars Sinai and Techstars, where we select ten healthcare startup companies focused on innovative technology and care delivery in healthcare. Both sets of mentors re really united to help drive the pace of growth of these startups, must faster than they might have grown traditionally.

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CommNexus HR SIG Presents: Retooling workers

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MCC Principal Consultant with Career Management Strategies will discuss development tools for employees, review resources to support management coaching, and provide an overview of strategic mentor programs that can be catalysts for retooling initiatives, while Judy Issokson, Ed.D,

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