Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 10, 2013

I made many classic first-time mistakes which serves both as my warning signal of which teams to avoid funding (if I perceive they will make critical mistakes often led by hubris) and also as my source for coaching others. Startups are filled with enormously talented people – often product people & engineers.

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Startup Press Course Entrepreneur 412

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. Selfless Coaching.

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Coach Startup Study Custom 182

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2015

I have found it to be more productive and effective to lead with the model that no meetings will take an hour, and may be done in as little as five minutes. Team members need your critique of their work to learn, but attacking the person is never productive. Provide immediate direct and constructive feedback.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 8, 2014

San Diego-based Qualcomm said this morning that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Life , is in a collaboration effort with vitaphone e-health solutions , a provider of health care management, telemonitoring, telemedicine devices and patient coaching. Financial details of the link were not disclosed.

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San Diego Coach Platform Product 153

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Many times they also pick up product and tech, too. Often times you find the CEO who really just likes to do product or tech. If they’re not running their business then perhaps the wrong person was picked as CEO or perhaps they need more mentorship / coaching to better allocate their time. But I ran product management.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 27, 2013

The problem with the TechCrunch bounce was that it often led the the TechCrunch free fall, as in your website’s precipitous decline in traffic and your products fall in users as that same 60-70,000 rushed to try the next product. Sure, some products were amazing and the crowds stuck around.

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Blogging Journal Press Startup 309

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Operating experience (Helped run parts of CitySearch & UrbanSpoon, tons of product management experience, Board of Hatch Labs which helped spawn Tinder). She is a coach and mentor to team members. Investment experience (5 years a VC at Battery Ventures). These are all of the intangibles we were looking for.

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Venture Capital Startup Outsource Development CitySearch 408

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

Working with early-stage teams : coaching, mentoring, setting strategy, rolling up sleeves: 9/10. I divided success into the phases of venture capital and 18 months into writing my first check here was my view (details on each in the link above). Sourcing high-quality leads : 9/10.

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Venture Capital Downey Writing Press 387

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). ” So Ethan went to work as a product manager at Google Video. I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan.

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CTO Coach Google CTO Hire Yammer 359

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2014

Most technology startups seem to be funded by product people or business people. ” So I did want any rational person who wants to improve does – I hired a coach. They like a solid product, well defined pricing, good references to sell against, a clear quota and well defined competitors.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2010

This is probably because many founders are product or technology people. The mistake many startup people make is they hire a “sales person&# to go out and talk with customers so they can do what they’re good at which is building product or “running the company.&# Sales people are a different breed, you say.

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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. Simply put – I’d be in search of a VC who had an intuitive sense of my product, my customers, my organizational issues, my competitors, etc. I think of VCs as coaches. I call them “ VCs Seagulls.” EQ and Team Leadership?

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Venture Capital Coach Writing SaaS 364

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Matt Stodder, the co-director of the Los Angeles program, says it is seeking companies with the right team, a minimum viable product, customer traction, and viable plan for going forward. Startup Boost says it provides guidance and coaching on such topics as product-market fit, market sizing, fundraising, and pitch development/presentation.

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Los Angeles Class Angel Startup 154

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 4, 2014

I think as a tech industry we have bred a culture that places more emphasis on product excellence than managing human behavior. Of course it makes no sense to have great people management and a crappy product. One who wants to commercialize his product and start charging while the other prefers to not charge.

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Startup Technical Review Course Press 340

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

There is always the next generation of workers coming of age who expect more, as well as the current generation already having the lowest engagement and productivity levels that business has ever seen. Spend more time mentoring and coaching your team. Giving orders and assignments is not coaching.

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Tips Satisfaction Coach Mentor 159

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2022

Your role is to provide this enablement, through listening to their needs, and providing personal coaching and mentoring as required. Relationships are key to happiness and productivity. Jeff Bezos , founder of Amazon, attributes much of his success to building a motivated and enabled team.

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Product Training Custom Customer 109

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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Marketing Coach Startup Product 148

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2022

I have found it to be more productive and effective to lead with the model that no meetings will take an hour, and may be done in as little as five minutes. Team members need your critique of their work to learn, but attacking the person is never productive. Provide immediate direct and constructive feedback. Marty Zwilling.

Mentor 154

Mentor Technical Review Coach Slides 154

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

Marco Zappacosta served up an cogent, business focused and nicely demo’d pitch of their product. ThereNow has build a platform (physical camera + software platform) to help remote coaches help improve teachers. The classroom activities are recorded and the video is appended with comments from a remote coach. Pretty cool.

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Angel Technical Review Software Review Platform 254

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

Products that ship late and place entire companies under serious stress. You have to figure out when to be the up-beat coach, “It will all get better, stay confident, keep the course” or the honest voice in one’s ear, “Listen mate, you’ve been protecting your head of product for far too long.

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Venture Capital Invest Press Startup 374

socalTECH

AUGUST 1, 2013

Irvine-based PEAR Sports announced this morning that it has launched a new product that uses a heart rate monitor and your smartphone to provide customized coaching and fitness training. The firm announced a system which uses heart rate-based training to customize workouts for users, via their smartphone.

Training 147

Training Coach Equity Custom 147

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2021

Los Angeles-based Ultrahuman, a startup developing an app focused on meditation, workouts, and sleep, said Wednesday that it has launched its first product, backed by $8M in funding. The company says the $8M, Series A funding round came from Nexus and Blume. The company's service runs on iOS and Android devices.

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Funding Coach Los Angeles Platform 113

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Think of it kind of like running a national chain of restaurants and occasionally stopping in to wait tables to have a more intuitive sense for your processes, work conditions and the quality of your products. But if you can’t get the results you want from your VP of Marketing or through coaching them then that is a different problem.

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Startup CTO Coach Technical Review CTO Hire 308

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Most technology startups seem to be funded by product people or business people. So I did want any rational person who wants to improve does – I hired a coach. They like a solid product, well defined pricing, good references to sell against, a clear quota and well defined competitors. Sales people often blame the product.

Sales 316

Sales Startup Pricing Custom 316

socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2012

The company said those videos will include Fanticipation, focused on weekend box office contenders; Honored, focused on awards season; and Unsung, featuring the unsung folks in Hollywood such as character actors, dialect coaches, costume designers, and more. Karger was previously at Entertainment Weekly. READ MORE>>.

Fandango 154

Fandango Coach Hollywood Entertainment 154

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 30, 2021

Based on my own long experience in business, team satisfaction, engagement, and productivity continues to be a challenge. That’s a huge opportunity for productivity in your business, as well as your team well-being. That’s a huge opportunity for productivity in your business, as well as your team well-being.

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Satisfaction Coach Resource Tool 168

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2022

After many extended coaching sessions with entrepreneurs and small business owners, I’ve found myself wondering if my value-add was anything more than you could get by self-coaching. It helps to partner with and coach others. Believe me, having you start in the right mindset will be more productive for both of us.

Coach 105

Coach Help Satisfaction Metrics 105

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2014

The best ones bring in more executive leadership so you can appropriate allocate resources across sales, marketing, product, engineering and support. 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.

Startup 381

Startup Resource Venture Capital Activity 381

TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 11, 2021

Beacons allows users to share a shopping-enabled TikTok feed, which could be a huge money-maker for creators that often share product recommendations with affiliate links, which give them a commission from sales. Still, depending on the type of creator, the features that each link-in-bio startup offers might matter more than the cost.

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Platform Commerce Startup Tool 286

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

However, his first-hand knowledge of how software is created, tested and commercialized facilitated his execution of Microsoft’s initial strategy, in which it leveraged its operating system to create a suite of business productivity solutions. I am not suggesting you spurn product excellence. Frugal Is As Frugal Does. "Instead

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Tips Startup IP Santa Barbara 275

socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2019

The Lytx system involves videos cameras and other sensors, with "positive, constructive feedback" and coaching to help change driver behaviors in the eye of safety. Lytx says it incorporates machine vision and artificial intelligence technology into its products for improving driver safety. READ MORE>>.

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Artificial Inteligence San Diego Coach Report 133

Berkonomics

MAY 13, 2021

The longer it takes to produce and release a product, the more fixed overhead is consumed, and the runway of remaining cash diminishes. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 28, 2010

I told him I thought it was too complicated of a business, he lacked the skills on his team to pull it off, it would take too much money and in the end I wasn’t sure it would be a valuable product. I come from a world that if the coach wasn’t yelling at you, it meant he didn’t care. I might be wrong. Get lots of data points.

Startup 378

Startup Framework Slides Coach 378

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women have made great inroads into the tech world in recent years, but there remains a long way to go before we reach a truly equitable state of affairs in workforce numbers, remuneration and product development. Entity’s sweet spot is a bifurcated one, Schwab said in an interview.

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Mentor Training Startup Course 297

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2020

New product process. Training and coaching. Ongoing coaching from the top is essential to maintain the attitude and spirit. Make sure all team members have some connection with the product – has either used it, or sold it, or assembled it. An entrepreneur looking for a sure thing will never innovate. Idea management.

Coach 144

Coach Metrics Social Network Competition 144

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In my experience as an employee, up to an executive, in large companies as well as small, I’ve found that people who are consistently negative and complain are a big constraint on productivity, as well as the most difficult management problem that most business leaders face. The result is a positive and productive work environment for all.

Coach 148

Coach Satisfaction Examples Startup 148

socalTECH

JUNE 24, 2016

San Diego-based Reflexion Health , a provider of cloud-based, digital medicine products, said this week that it has raised $18 in a Series B funding round. The startup, led by Joseph Smith, MD, PhD, develops VERA, a software product which is aimed at the physical therapy market. READ MORE>>.

San Diego 113

San Diego Coach Guide Report 113