Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2019

Every entrepreneur and business person I know wishes he had more time for coaching all the members of his team. I often hear the excuse that coaching takes more time than simply diving in and doing the job for the other person, but is that really true? Exceptional communication is a prerequisite to coaching.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 12, 2011

You’ll quickly be drawn into the governance of the organization and introduced into the process of discovery, coaching, leading deals, herding investors, serving on boards and helping entrepreneurs toward liquidity events. If you are in such a good place in your life, find a local angel investing group by Googling “angel investing”.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

We all like to think of startups as “non hierarchic&# organizations and to some extent that should be true. I never built a Google-sized business but I did build an organization from scratch that grew to 120 employees in 5 countries before we sold it. The organization gets used to it and adjusts. Skipping is insidious.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Like the CEO of a BDC, indoor volleyball coaches can rest their players and strategically replace a player during a match. For instance, in a close match, a coach may decide to substitute a weak server for a stronger one. The same attributes that lead to entrepreneurial success, are often counterproductive within a larger organization.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 3, 2014

Her positive attitude and willingness to take chances rapidly propelled her to the coveted and influential position of Coach. Several Zappos employees had mentioned "Coach" and the impact she has had on the corporation during our tour. and I was always really passionate about the coaching program. It just depends on. We believe.

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Frank Addante

APRIL 9, 2013

I admire John Wooden, the legendary UCLA basketball coach. If we finish five minutes late on a regular basis across our organization, doing the math, we would lose the equivalent of 23 total workdays of productivity in the business per year – that’s many millions of dollars of wasted investment, and almost a full month of opportunity cost.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 28, 2012

Something like a marriage (and often lasting just as long statistically), your investment partner can be a great cheerleader, coach and resource. Angel investors tend to be much more understanding, and usually resort to coaching rather than replacing the CEO during bad times. Email readers, continue here.]

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2014

You finally need to start planning your product roadmap a bit further than your 2-week sprints so that the rest of the organization has a chance to preplan for new features. The C-round CEO still gets her hand dirty but shouldn’t be a control freak or become a bottleneck in the organization. But you have him now.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 15, 2011

But in this case, the goal is success, which is counter to the locker room speech by the good coach. It is most important to focus everyone in the organization on a goal. Look this up sometime in your browser: “Success is a byproduct, not a goal.” You will find it attributed to tens of originators.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 1, 2024

I first heard this in an episode of Friday Night Lights years ago when Coach Taylor began a locker room speech with those words. Focus upon the goal It is important to focus everyone in the organization on a goal. Look this up sometime in your browser: “Success is a byproduct, not a goal.”

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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. Organizations Are Adaptive Systems. Organizations are complex systems that adapt to their environment in its totality.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 26, 2014

Angel investors, particularly those in organized angel groups, are typically former entrepreneurs who have had successful liquidity events in their pasts, or executives of companies who’ve retired with the funds from their stock options. The result of these surveys over time is universally the same. a 33% discount. www.berkus.com.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 29, 2019

So I met with many of the publishers, ancillary startups, tournament organizers, and OG players and team owners. 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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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2012

Southern California has the one of the largest gathering of organized angel investment groups, and a huge crop of startup accelerators: there's only one problem, which is they don't naturally work together. As a Pasadena Angel, I wanted to be shocked, but I wasnt. The Angel funding process can be arduous.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

VCs should be more of a coach than proscriptively telling you what to do. I think of VCs as coaches. But successful coaches find a way to get the most out of all the existing players on the field and avoid too much unnecessary trading. I call them “ VCs Seagulls.”

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

San Diego-based Brickfish , a developer of social media and networking software being used by brands, reported today that it has hired on a Paul Botto, most recently Head of Analytics for the North American Sales Organization at Google, as its Vice President of Sales. Brickfish is venture backed by DCM, Draper Richards L.P.,

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 28, 2011

I propose that there are few times in life when the opportunity opens to look only outward, to participate in charity events, extended family vacations, community boards and even coaching other entrepreneurs. How empowering.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 11, 2012

Vince Lombardi is widely considered the best football coach of all time, and ultimately may be the greatest coach in the history of all sports. The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.”. Coach Lombardi put teamwork first (which is why we did, too). Commitment .

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

His willingness to add value wherever his coach needed him most, not only helped his teams win three consecutive World Championships, but it also allowed Bert to extend his career by making himself Indispensible. Despite his status as an all-star shortstop, Bert proved himself to be a selfless utility player.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Ninety days or longer later, if that person is terminated by management, it often is for actions resulting from the person’s relationship with others in the organization more often than failure to perform the specific task for which the person was hired. We carefully vet the potential hire for experience required.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

In reality, business success and satisfaction is about doing the right things at the right time, which requires leadership and coaching. But coaching doesn’t always work the way you expect. Trevor is a veteran coach who has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs, organizations, and business families across the country.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Then the organizer went into a 20 minute sales pitch around his new training/coaching offering. At the end, he said that going forward the focus of the group would be around his commercial offering and that the only value that an organizer and participants get is when they can pitch their stuff to the group.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

It’s a human being inside the buying organization who has trusted you. But you realize that you can be more helpful as a coach. And yes, I sleep better at night as a coach. It’s about wanting the right speaking slot at an important conference and hounding the organizer until he lets you do it. Not fun, hey?

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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? In an effort to help myself, I read a new book on this topic, “ The Master Coach ,” by Gregg Thompson. Self-centered members need coaching.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 24, 2021

It is hard to coach or teach leadership in a few paragraphs. Worse yet, failures to delegate make the leader the principal bottleneck in the flow of work through an organization. But let’s try by limiting this short insight to a list of the five principal tactical skills of a great leader. A great leader learns to delegate, first.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2010

He coached me that I had to start with the answers. I start with answers and structure what I think the organization of the problem is. It took too long for me to get around to speak to every departement, get data, assemble it, analyze the data to formulate conclusions and then communicate it to executive staff.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2019

What was the biggest news for your organization in 2018? I believe that the most important thing for tech companies will be to turn inward and create mature leadership and organizations that can handle growth. We continue to have a steady stream of industry and thought leaders raising their hands to be mentors for our upcoming cohorts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The goal must be to eliminate organization silos, flatten hierarchies, and empower employees within projects. Coach for productivity, performance, and creativity. The traditional once-yearly look-backward performance paradigm has to be replaced by daily or weekly coaching focused on a career roadmap ahead.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Costa Mesa-based Givsum , which develops online software to help charitable organizations with their operations and fundraising, says it has received both new funding, as well as support, from two accelerators.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 6, 2022

that person is terminated by management, it often is for actions resulting from the person’s relationship with others in the organization more often than failure to perform the specific task for which the person was hired. Should we be so abrupt as to consider letting someone go based upon their lack of a good fit within the organization?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

If you are unsure of what you can do to keep a positive mindset, don’t hesitate to ask for some personal coaching with experts in this area, or review the many articles on positive habits that will make your life better, as well as make you a role model for other people. As a leader, publicly reward positive feedback.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 18, 2010

When we started I told everybody we would run the organization as a startup itself. I set out some simple objectives, picked 13 startup CEO’s, planned a series of events, spent time personally trying to coach people through their fund raising processes and waited to see where it went. We connected. Launchpad V1 was born.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits. So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. We met everybody in the organization. Somebody had gotten to somebody senior in the Thames organization. They had agreed!

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

[Email readers, continue here…] I found one of my joys in angel investing, putting money to work by investing time and money into promising young entrepreneurs much like I once was, coaching them, putting them together with others who have needed skills, helping to build someone else’s dream. Non-profit boards and volunteering.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

The goal for this organization is four-fold: To provide mentorship for some of the most promising young companies based in Los Angeles or willing to relocate to LA. We always wanted to be seen as a “mentorship organization” where people are asked to give back to their community. For the past 2.5

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits. So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. We met everybody in the organization. Somebody had gotten to somebody senior in the Thames organization. They had agreed!

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

It’s easy to assume in a small organization that everybody read our employee handbook and generally knows right from wrong but of course companies big and small should never take this for granted. In the afternoon we had a partner session with a separate facilitator in which we talked more broadly about bias, diversity & inclusion.

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