Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

Rozovsky basically said that having studied 180 teams at Google over the past several years and trying to determine what made some teams perform better than others (despite every team being filled with over-achievers who work at Google) one factor stood out more than others: Creating “psychologically safe environments.”

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2016

We'll talk more about that, but what we do is bring the data cloud to life through licensed professional coaches, who understand the incentives of behavior change, and meet participants where they are, through three or four occasional recommendations each month. That's because we'll already have made the investment in your baseline data.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

Or if you’re a VC raising from LPs you have to list all of your deals, your investment value, your carrying value, your multiples, your IRRs, TVPIs, DPIs, etc along with net cashflows plus your previous LPAs. These collective sets of documents form the basis of what somebody looking at investing would call “financial due diligence.”

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 12, 2021

We build and invest in startups with impact. We have a Startup Studio and Early Stage Investment Fund. A number of years ago, I did a case study for Harvard Business School. A good friend, and college athletics coach, very wisely said to me “you can’t fill a big hole with a bunch of little things.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

Most top tier VCs return about 3x invested capital and outlier funds (the best of a vintage) might return 6-8x. It’s true this was much bigger in the dot com era but I’ve studied the data and know that over the past decade these numbers are right. You invest across many funds just as VCs invest across many companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2013

Most entrepreneurs view a mentor as someone older and more experienced who takes the time to personally give guidance, advice, and takes an emotional investment in your success. Work, study, and practice continually to solidify the guidance. Remember the difference between a mentor, a friend, and a coach.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

What we saw with CareerArc, was there was already a tremendous amount of investment in the middle of the market, with all of these different services and products that went into taking care of an employee when they were hired until they were let go. Explain what you mean about branding in the employment area?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

According to one study a while back, only 45% of founders plan to exit after stage one, and my guess is that less than half the remainder survive the next stage in their own company. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships. Managing business growth is more than metrics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2012

Most entrepreneurs view a mentor as someone older and more experienced who takes the time to personally give guidance, advice, and takes an emotional investment in your success. Work, study, and practice continually to solidify the guidance. Remember the difference between a mentor, a friend, and a coach.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2015

It is not limited to the realm of the top executive or board of directors, who could bring in consultants for studies and analysis. Specialists today can justify their cost based on more direct return on investment calculations at all operational levels. Leadership by example works at all levels of a company.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 12, 2012

Board skills (Startup coaching, mentoring, strategy, operational/growth). Steve goes on to note that Chuck Eesley , one of his Stanford compatriots, has performed quantitative studies of the VC industry, finding that firms which have operationally experienced partners tend to generate superior financial results. Fundraising skills.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

According to financial columnist Daniel Solin, “One large study looked at more than 15,000 predictions by 237 market timing newsletters over a 12-year period. At the end of the period studied, 94.5% John Wooden, US basketball coach. of the newsletters went bust.”. Measure Thrice, Cut Once. Pollyanna Need Not Apply.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

According to one study a while back, only 45% of founders plan to exit after stage one, and my guess is that less than half the remainder survive the next stage in their own company. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships. Managing business growth is more than metrics.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 6, 2012

As part of UC Santa Barbara’s Distinguished Lecture Series, serial entrepreneur, CEO Coach and Author Lex Sisney shared a preview of his newly released book, Organizational Physics: The Science of Growing a Business. This article originally appeared on Forbes HERE.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 28, 2010

And having frameworks is a useful way to standardize your customer studies so that highly intelligent, inexperienced young people can crank out PowerPoint slides with such authority and beautiful consistency. I come from a world that if the coach wasn’t yelling at you, it meant he didn’t care. I grew up and played sports all my life.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

According to one study a while back, only 45% of founders plan to exit after stage one, and my guess is that less than half the remainder survive the next stage in their own company. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships. Managing business growth is more than metrics.

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Steve Reich

AUGUST 9, 2012

At a recent accelerator event on the West Side, a friendly young founder told me that he had been coached by his mentor not to talk to Angel groups. ” And the Kauffman Foundation just published a major study pointing out that all but the top 10% of VC firms fail to create value. The Angel funding process can be arduous.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2017

He was just a friend from church, and we actually connected at church through bible study. Bill talks about growing up at the Naval Academy with his father, who was an assistant football coach there, and saying that was the most impactful experience on his coaching career. My experience with Randy was much like that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

According to one study , only 45% of Founders plan to exit after stage one, and my guess is that less than half the remainder survive the next stage in their own company. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships. Of course, not every entrepreneur wants to tackle this challenge.

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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. My closest friend from high school, Rob Sowers, had studied abroad in Spain during college. I wanted to study the languages. True story.].

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