socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2019

We spoke with ProGuides founder Sam Wang to better understand what the company does, and why users are joining its service and using its marketplace to find professional video game coaches. The best way to think about it, is as a learning platform. After finishing a course, we've found they likely also want to find a coach.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 29, 2021

The funds will be used to build out its platform, hire beyond its 27-person workforce and expand its service area. It was here that she met Ellis, a career coach at LACI who also worked at the Long Beach Job Corp Center. The company said it has raised $2.75 Ellis is now the chief workforce officer at ChargerHelp.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2022

Think about the questions that you are asking your advisors. I expect questions about how a business works, or what are best practices, but I really can’t help you with removing doubts on your abilities, or providing a sure-fire idea and formula for success in business. Leadership in business starts with making good personal choices.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2019

I believe these will really help anyone recognize great leaders, and even more importantly, accelerate their own entrepreneur leadership transformation: Demonstrates a burning ambition and a burning platform (fire metaphor). Works with other team members on mutual aspirations (coach metaphor).

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2021

An edtech startup called Entity Academy — which provides women with training, in areas like data science and software development; mentoring; and ultimately job coaching — has raised $100 million on the heels of strong growth of its business, and an ambition to improve that ratio.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 29, 2021

Long hours in co-working offices with CEOs fresh from university with big ideas and a lot of vague, nebulous chat about platforms. Plexal has also noticed a shift in the way workers think about why they would come into an office at all. Or at least you have an idea of what a startup is like to work in?

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2012

If you're a family with kids in sports, how do you share all those videos, photos, and other memories about your kids games? Where do you organize and share all the information about your team's games? First off, for the folks who haven't heard of WePlay, what is the service all about? How did WePlay come about?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2023

Entrepreneurs don’t need to know everything about business before they start. Utilize business content curators and coaches. Entrepreneurs should be monitoring online curator platforms and blogs. Yet many new entrepreneurs are hesitant, perhaps out of fear or ego. If you are not constantly learning, you are falling behind.

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Berkonomics

MAY 9, 2019

Tell me about your company in ten words or less.” I recently spent fifteen minutes in front of a table-top display, attempting to coach an entrepreneur who repeatedly tried to state why his business was better than a competitor (one I didn’t recognize) and never explaining what it was that he did. The easy way to lose an opportunity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2015

I believe these will really help anyone recognize great leaders, and even more importantly, accelerate their own entrepreneur leadership transformation: Demonstrates a burning ambition and a burning platform (fire metaphor). Works with other team members on mutual aspirations (coach metaphor).

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

Explain what you mean about branding in the employment area? Our platform not only distributes your jobs, but helps with your brand online, and helps candidates move forward to see if they have a great fit with the company. Talk more about that outplacement content? That's been very effective.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2017

I believe these will really help anyone recognize great leaders, and even more importantly, accelerate their own entrepreneur leadership transformation: Demonstrates a burning ambition and a burning platform (fire metaphor). Works with other team members on mutual aspirations (coach metaphor).

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Despite the challenges that COVID has presented to the broader economy and startup ecosystem, we remain optimistic about (and in awe of) the resilience of our portfolio companies and their Founders. These are fundamental to how we are coaching our portfolio companies as well  we practice what we preach! Being grateful.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 11, 2012

The following guest post is from Dan Monarko, Online Marketing Manager at The Resumator , a SaaS applicant tracking system and hiring platform trusted by many of the fastest-growing companies in the world, including: Pinterest, Tumblr, Hootsuite, Klout, Posterous, Bitly, Atari and Mashable. Commitment .

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2013

The top two on the personal side are “urgency” and “desire,” but these have to be matched on the business side with the willingness to burn the platform (change any aspect of the business) without a crisis. Works with other team members on mutual aspirations (coach metaphor). Think about who could help you reflect-on-action.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Here in LA we continue to be excited about the growth of the startup ecosystem and the quality of the companies here. I'm also tracking the growth of esports - both amateur participation through leagues, analytics platforms and training solutions as well as new tech around the viewer experience for pro esports - lots of exciting stuff here.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 7, 2012

Tell me about your company in ten words or less.” I recently spent fifteen minutes in front of a table-top display, attempting to coach an entrepreneur who repeatedly tried to state why his business was better than a competitor (one I didn’t recognize) and never explaining what it was that he did.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

I attended the inaugural Open Angel Forum in Los Angeles back in January and wrote about it here. In addition they are a platform (the OS part) where they’re encouraging developers to build third party apps on their platform. I wrote about how to give demos in a previous post. Ambitious goals. Pretty cool.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2020

Entrepreneurs don’t need to know everything about business before they start. Utilize business content curators and coaches. Entrepreneurs should be monitoring online curator platforms and blogs. Yet many new entrepreneurs are hesitant, perhaps out of fear or ego. If you are not constantly learning, you are falling behind.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Think about the questions that you are asking your advisors. I expect questions about how a business works, or what are best practices, but I really can’t help you with removing doubts on your abilities, or providing a sure-fire idea and formula for success in business. Leadership in business starts with making good personal choices.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 14, 2020

Gender bias in medicine is systemic,” says Carine Carmy, the fast-talking CEO and co-founder of Origin , during a condensed chat about her startup mission to make physical therapy for women and mothers accessible and affordable across the US, both online and through a network of physical clinics.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

We caught up with Fuel50 founder and CEO Anne Fulton to learn more about the startup. You can find a mentor, a coach, a project, or experience, to help you prepare for the role you are looking for. We were originally operating as a coaching company, and we built out this assessment technology for our own clients. What is Fuel50?

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

“[It] is super competitive and great for companies looking to not only gain exposure but to learn from and see the breath of other startups and founders in the space,” said Darlene Gillard, Director of Community and Partner of digitalundivided, about the Startup of the Year competition. Indiegogo (San Francisco,CA and New York, NY).

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 8, 2012

The following guest post is from Laurie Barkman, Marketing Lead at The Resumator , a SaaS applicant tracking system and hiring platform trusted by many of the fastest-growing companies in the world, including: Pinterest, Tumblr, Hootsuite, Klout, Posterous, Bitly, Atari and Mashable. What if they attended a community college?

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Berkonomics

MARCH 14, 2011

Tell me about your company in ten words or less.” I recently spent fifteen minutes in front of a table-top display, attempting to coach an entrepreneur who repeatedly tried to state why his business was better than a competitor (one I didn’t recognize) and never explaining what it was that he did. Email readers continue here.] “We

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socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2016

Becka Klauber Richter is co-founder of the startup, and spoke to us about the company, which she co-founded with Kasey Edwards. Parenting has always required a village of support, and we consider our platform to be that village. I started as a teenager, and I did babysitting, life guarding, and swim coaching. What is Helpr?

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Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

The company has a majority stake in Team Liquid, a top esports team in the US and Europe with 60 pro players, coaches, and analysts competing in nine games as well as a minority stake in Super League Gaming. is a game-based learning platform with more than 50 million monthly active users in 180 countries.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Frank is a successful, serial entrepreneur, and tells about his experience growing Rubicon from a small startup to a much larger team. In short, I've had to go from playing "running back", to "quarterback" to now "coach." I run a very different company today than I did a year ago.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

Think about the questions that you are asking your advisors. I expect questions about how a business works, or what are best practices, but I really can’t help you with removing doubts on your abilities, or providing a sure-fire idea and formula for success in business. Leadership in business starts with making good personal choices.

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Coach Satisfaction Ideas Entrepreneur 59

socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2017

Diamond Bar-based LifeRay (www.liferay.com) is a company that not too many people have heard of, but which is used to run the websites for such well known organizations like Toyota, T-Mobile, Coach, Fujitsu, Allianz, and Sesame Street. Bryan Cheung: What we're specifically doing, is a product called the LifeRay digital experience platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

By going on sales calls you pick up directly the feedback of what customers want and also what they’re telling you about competition. You’re also learning directly about the skills of your sales staff by observing them in action. It might tell you that you need better sales training or to hone your key selling messages.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : SocialStay is: "An easy to set up & manage mobile platform designed for the hospitality industry. 4) I have written a lot about the importance of addVisors during a startup’s early days. I could go on and on about this since there can be downsides as well. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2015

Entrepreneurs don’t need to know everything about business before they start. Utilize business content curators and coaches. Entrepreneurs should be monitoring online curator platforms and blogs. Yet many new entrepreneurs are hesitant, perhaps out of fear or ego. If you are not constantly learning, you are falling behind.

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Entrepreneur Startup Education Tool 112

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Many entrepreneurs fantasize about days longer than 24 hours, convinced that their new venture could change the world, if they just had more time. If you find your attention distracted from the task at hand by headlines or new videos, it may be time to shift to another platform that does not highlight these distractions.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Email Social Media 104

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2017

Mark Zuckerberg was not the first to build a social media platform, so he had to find investors who believed in him. She speaks from years of experience coaching entrepreneurs and executives on the magic of a story. If your audience wants to hear about return-on-investment, don’t dodge that subject.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 29, 2014

Kevin Callahan , Co-founder of MapMyFitness, spoke to us about the creation of MapMyFitness: “It was an evolution of sorts. MapMyFitness helps out the health and fitness community with a number of features available and the best part about the app is the main features are free, or pay $2.99 The MVP option goes at a rate of $5.99/month

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2014

Many entrepreneurs fantasize about days longer than 24 hours, convinced that their new venture could change the world, if they just had more time. If you find your attention distracted from the task at hand by headlines or new videos, it may be time to shift to another platform that does not highlight these distractions.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Email Social Media 105