Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2022

Marketing is everything these days. Yet I see many technology entrepreneurs that focus on the basics of marketing too little and too late. I like the guidance from marketing coach David Newman’s classic book “ Do It! Don’t fall into the marketing-speak trap. Good marketing is not rocket science.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2021

Authors Adrian Gostick and Chestor Elton, with their deep backgrounds as executive coaches and organizational consultants, recommend some simple methods, consistent with my own beliefs, to reduce the pain of uncertainty, and increase productivity, in your teams and employees: Make it okay for them to not have all the answers.

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Berkonomics

JULY 3, 2010

Business coaches come in all sizes and shapes. How do you pay a coach? If the coach is also a significantly large investor such as a VC fund, the board member-coach will offer a limited amount of time outside of board work at no extra cost, all for the good of the investment. Email readers continue here.]

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2022

The classic book, “ Hunting in a Farmer's World: Celebrating the Mind of an Entrepreneur ,” by serial entrepreneur and business coach John F. In business, entrepreneurs hunt for new innovative solutions to problems, new ways of beating competitors, new markets, and new customers. These are the ultimate hunters.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2019

Marketing is everything these days. Yet I see many technology entrepreneurs that focus on the basics of marketing too little and too late. I like the guidance from marketing coach David Newman’s classic book “ Do It! Don’t fall into the marketing-speak trap. Good marketing is not rocket science.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 28, 2024

Some investor board members are also member of boards for companies that may overlap in markets or even compete directly, although rare. Should board members therefore withdraw and not participate in corporate planning, coaching the CEO and other issues not related to the duty of care or duty of loyalty? Of course they should not.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 16, 2021

San Diego-based sales and marketing software developer Seismic has raised $170M in a Series G funding round, the company said this morning, and is now valued at $3 billion. Along with the funding, the company said it has acquired Lessonly, a developer of sales training, coaching, and enablement software which is based in Indianapolis.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Startup Boost says it provides guidance and coaching on such topics as product-market fit, market sizing, fundraising, and pitch development/presentation. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? And then in the late 90’s money crept in, swept in to town by public markets, instant wealth and an absurd sky-rocketing of valuations based on no reasonable metrics. What happened? People were building.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 13, 2023

Every day a deadline for development, rollout, marketing campaign or even corporate reorganization is missed, we burn fixed overhead – money. Good managers are good students – easily coached by those on their boards or advisors who have been through eh rough times in their business lives. Think of our midnights: time and money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Marketing is everything these days. Yet I see many technology entrepreneurs that focus on the basics of marketing too little and too late. I like the guidance from marketing coach David Newman’s recent book “ Do It! Don’t fall into the marketing-speak trap. Good marketing is not rocket science.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 17, 2023

A personal story as an investor … [Email readers, continue here…] My very first investment as a professional angel was in a small startup where the entrepreneur’s vision fueled my imagination in the audio market niche where I had run a business in an earlier life.

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socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2013

Can a software algorithm help student athletes and coaches connect better? FieldLevel has initially been targeting its technology at college baseball teams, and claims it now has 80 percent of that market, in addition to five Major League Baseball teams; the company also says it will be opening up its platform to other sports verticals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

As the rate of change continues to increase in business and technology, the more I’m convinced that marketing is the primary key to success for a new venture. Yet I find that many technical founders don’t feel they need it at all, or at best point to one person on the team who is marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2017

Marketing is everything these days. Yet I see many technology entrepreneurs that focus on the basics of marketing too little and too late. I like the guidance from marketing coach David Newman’s classic book “ Do It! Don’t fall into the marketing-speak trap. Good marketing is not rocket science.

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Berkonomics

MAY 13, 2021

Expert help and good planning can reduce the time to market, saving cash in the process. Further, just because someone volunteers to invest doesn’t make that person into a coach or expert, although many seem to think their investment gives them the right to be that coach or expert. Money is what entrepreneurs expect from us.

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socalTECH

MAY 6, 2014

Irvine-based PEAR Sports , a developer of personalized coaching apps for the iPhone and Android, has raised $5M in a funding round, to go towards its mobile apps and platform. PEAR Sports said the funding will go towards sales and marketing of its mobile app and hardware. READ MORE>>.

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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. Evolve from guru to guide, and coaching others to find answers for themselves.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2021

Myers, a noted career coach, and author of the classic book, “ Get The Job You Want, Even When No One’s Hiring ,” many job seekers and career changers make the mistake of halting all their efforts as summer approaches, believing that nobody will be hiring until early fall. Invest in career coaching. According to Ford R.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 29, 2021

It was here that she spotted a gap in the EV charging market. It was here that she met Ellis, a career coach at LACI who also worked at the Long Beach Job Corp Center. During her time there, she worked with 12 manufacturers, which gave her knowledge into inner workings and common problems with the chargers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2023

Any startup coach or business advisor will tell you that, on your way to being a great chef, you don't start your journey by inventing the ultimate entre. You need a good cook, good marketing, and first-class service. investors invest in people, not ideas) Effective and timely go-to-market. Make them “feel the love.”

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Berkonomics

MAY 31, 2018

Sometimes you can be the coach, helping them even if it means losing them. It doesn’t take much to publicly wish a departing employee well, to throw a small celebration, to coach the outgoing person if asked, and to listen and receive fair criticism at the moment of the exit interview. Celebrate the transition.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Thursday, November 19, 2009 -- Using Twitter and Value of Market Intelligence. AccessEN will sponsor a keynote presentation by acclaimed author and columnist Mark Gibbs on the Twitter phenomenon and the value of market intelligence that companies can glean from social network analysis.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 29, 2019

This is like talking about the NBA and the value of its sponsorships and broadcast rights as if that is the entirety of the basketball market in the US. As a player, what that experience means is you play on a team, in a position, with a coach, in a season that culminates in some sort of championship.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2013

Marketing is everything these days. Yet I see many entrepreneurs that focus on the basics of marketing too little and too late. I found some help from marketing coach David Newman’s new book “ Do It! Don’t fall into the marketing-speak trap. entrepreneurs need to focus more on who they are marketing to and why.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2022

I have personally used this approach in leading startups as well as large organizations, in highly technical roles as well as business development and marketing. For one-on-one coaching from the startup founder, I call this approach five-minute mentoring. Everyone learns best from failures, so failure should never be a feared option.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2022

I’m not an expert on leadership, so I am always on the lookout for specific development guidance, such as the classic book, “ Leadership Results ,” by the well-known leadership coach and business psychologist, Sebastian Salicru. If necessary, use a strengths coach, and always start a business which highlights your signature strengths.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2022

If you aren’t yet adapting to the market and your customers, you are falling behind. In other words, change in your business has to become the accepted norm, just like it is in your market. Be proactive rather than reactive to market change. New blood and new ideas are keys to agility.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2019

They also have to practice solid communication and invite other points of view, and evolve company culture as the market and product realities change. But as with any knowledge that they have to acquire to run their companies (including such things as coding or marketing or finance or operations), tech founders can learn to be leaders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2021

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. Depth in a specific business area, such as marketing or accounting, is important in understanding the internal and external processes of a business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2023

Yet if you already have some early adopters, that's a good indication that real marketing and education will likely bring your product or service mass acceptance. Acquiring business skills is not rocket science; they can be learned on the job, as well as supplemented by coaching from an experienced team and advisors.

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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 funding came from current investor West Partners and others.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2014

Flywheel is the developer of mobile apps to help taxi companies provide an Uber-like experience to their customers, and which is also very active in the LA market. CallFire said fitkidsAmerica will use the credits to text and call parents, coaches, and administrators in its programs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2022

The challenge is that the future is much harder to quantify than existing competitor markets. Don’t let all the data you now have on the past keep you from listening for changes in the market. Sometimes you have to be willing to jeopardize current revenue streams to penetrate new markets or technologies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2022

These authors reference real cases and real business leaders, based on their decades of experience in building companies and executive coaching. I offer here their summary of purposes and inspirations that have motivated existing business leaders, with insights from my own mentoring and coaching experience.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 2, 2017

Those relationships would be impressive but worthless if the entrepreneur was not coachable, open to suggestion and criticism from those who have experience enough to surface the issues unspoken but obvious to the coach. And finally, there are always ways to improve the process of design, test, roll-out and marketing a new idea.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Any startup coach or business advisor will tell you that, on your way to being a great chef, you don't start your journey by inventing the ultimate entre. You need a good cook, good marketing, and first-class service. investors invest in people, not ideas) Effective and timely go-to-market. Make them “feel the love.”

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