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. Technology as an add-on by edict is not satisfying. Spend more time mentoring and coaching your team.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2020

New product process. Innovative technologies have no value until they are turned into solutions to real customer problems. Training and coaching. Ongoing coaching from the top is essential to maintain the attitude and spirit. Once a new product is launched, a key metric is the ratio of new product sales to overall sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2022

Every business needs repeatable processes to grow and thrive, but modern business processes need the right people to make them efficient and productive. The right people make productive processes, not the other way around. On the other hand, I see teams with almost no process that are tremendously productive.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Sure, we built SaaS products before the term even existed but at 31 it was hard to delineate reality from what all of the monied people around us were telling us what we were worth. In those years I learned to properly build product, price products, sell products and serve customers. Until we weren’t.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2019

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions for 2019 from Southern California's technology industry. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

These days, with all the new technology, including smartphones and social media, many are convinced that multi-tasking is the answer. Yet there is more and more evidence that jumping tasks on every alert for a new email, text, or phone call actually decreases overall productivity. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2014

You can have the best technology, but if customers don’t know you exist, or they don’t know how your technology solves a real problem for them, your startup will fail. Yet I see many technology entrepreneurs that focus on the basics of marketing too little and too late. Marketing is everything these days.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2022

You can have the best technology, but if customers don’t know you exist, or they don’t know how your technology solves a real problem for them, your startup will fail. Yet I see many technology entrepreneurs that focus on the basics of marketing too little and too late. Marketing is everything these days.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 2, 2017

Flexibility: the context in which a business plan envisions the enterprise in its marketplace is constantly changing as new products and services challenge competitors to innovate and adapt. And many potential coaches out there have made mistakes in these processes at the expense of their employers or even their personal savings.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2021

The last thing they can afford is to waste any of these, but in my mentoring and coaching activities, I see it happening all too often. Much has been written about this subject in the world of manufacturing, stemming primarily from the 1990’s work by Taiichi Ohno, called the Toyota Production System (“Lean”). Lack of communication.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Former technology journalist Courtney Boyd Myers co-founded AKUA with Matthew Lebo five years ago after seeking out a career where she could leave a legacy and fulfill her mission of reversing climate change. We went back to the drawing board during the pandemic on a new product and invented The Kelp Burger.”.

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Xconomy

JUNE 29, 2016

Reflexion Health, a San Diego startup founded in 2012 at the nonprofit West Health Institute, is moving to commercialize Vera, its physical rehabilitation system based on Microsoft Kinect’s motion tracking technology. The change has sparked a lot of interest in Reflexion and its Vera technology as a way to reduce rehab costs, Smith said.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Successful entrepreneur leaders, including Bill Gates and Elon Musk , are noted for taking deep dives into new technologies, and reading new books every week, to stretch their minds, even though they already have a range of knowledge far beyond their peers. Spend more time coaching and mentoring your team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2023

These should come as no surprise to you, since they haven’t changed in many decades, and I expect will serve you well in the current turbulent times we all face: Spend time nurturing productive work relationships. In my experience, relationships are still the key to career opportunities, new clients, and collaborative results.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2019

You don’t like it, millennials won’t put up with it, and current productivity levels at work continue to decline. She has lived and worked in five countries, and consulted with major corporations, as well as startups, in transforming their workplaces to be more productive as well as more satisfying. No one is happy or satisfied.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Too many relationships never advance beyond this stage, resulting in poor communication, no cooperation, low trust, and low shared productivity. This is a productive working relationship where one party, more knowledgeable and/or experienced, takes an active role in fostering the advance of the other. Workship - Mentor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Positive people management elements include good communication skills, building strong teams, finding time for coaching, strong people relationships, and facilitating growth and succession. Research has confirmed that culture is a primary driver for financial performance, customer experience, and team productivity.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

James (chairman of the Althea Foundation) and appointed Adam Sroka as Senior Vice President of Technology in a move to make business transactions simple and secure. . Jackson , “This financing round, coupled with hiring Adam Sroka as our head of technology, puts CapLinked in a position to further enhance our enterprise product offerings.”.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2017

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions from Southern California's "movers and shakers" in the technology industry. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that particularly caught your eye in 2017. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2020

These holidays, with all the new technology, including smartphones and social media, many are convinced that multi-tasking is the answer. Yet there is more and more evidence that jumping tasks on every alert for a new email, text, or phone call actually decreases overall productivity. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

The most productive business relationships involve mentoring, or active sharing of knowledge and experience, with the intent to improve communication, cooperation, and impact. Provide and seek coach and advocate relationships. A good coach is not a critic. Even with all our technology, business is still people-to-people.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

But they also take on issues in science, technology and management. Increasingly I find myself engaging executive coaches at companies an trying to help executive teams get 360 degree feedback. The best leaders I know encourage coaches to come in and are willing to listen to feedback about themselves.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

With business teams now getting back together in the workplace after primarily working remotely during the pandemic , it’s an ideal time to implement change and make sure your team is feeling a renewed sense of satisfaction, high engagement, and maximum productivity. Let that be part of their job satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Too many relationships never advance beyond this stage, resulting in poor communication, no cooperation, low trust, and low shared productivity. This is a productive working relationship where one party, more knowledgeable and/or experienced, takes an active role in fostering the advance of the other. Workship - Mentor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

The best new idea for any entrepreneur should first be based on their own personal interests, skills, and lifestyle, rather than the characteristics of a given market or technology. Don’t pick a technology idea that someone else believes will make you rich and famous, or a business area you are not intimately familiar with.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2019

The result is lost productivity and a poorly engaged work force. Your people will expect more coaches than bosses. They demand to be valued as individuals, and coached to understand and build their strengths, rather than treated as soldiers and directed to march into battle. I also found it’s never too late to start.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2022

You may have a brilliant product strategy, but your operational teams seem to fight change, as well as each other, resulting in turf battles and confusion, leading to the internal drama and problems that occupy too much of your time. People need to feel motivation. I encourage you to keep your team focus on targets credible today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Train and coach continuously. Leaders have found that keeping everyone on top of changes in technology, competition, and customer demands is critical to success. It’s a core process that must be up and effective when you deliver your first product or service. If service employees are not happy, the process isn’t working yet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2017

You don’t like it, millennials won’t put up with it, and current productivity levels at work continue to decline. She has lived and worked in five countries, and consulted with major corporations, as well as startups, in transforming their workplaces to be more productive as well as more satisfying. No one is happy or satisfied.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2023

I believe that a fully engaged team is the key to both productivity and agility in the face of change. You must give them a strong sense of self-efficacy by championing autonomy, encouraging them to think big, and coaching them on areas to improve. Show humility by being honest about mistakes. There is no one-size-fits-all approach.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 22, 2020

These are fundamental to how we are coaching our portfolio companies as well  we practice what we preach! What are you most looking forward to in the technology/startup world in 2021? This ability to do more with less will pay dividends post pandemic as we focus on growth. What was the biggest lesson you learned this year?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2022

I find this to be a tough challenge for many entrepreneurs, especially those of you who have long focused on technology as the key to the business opportunity. As a mentor to many early business leaders, I always emphasize that need to switch from a product focus to a team focus. Excessive focus on work, no social interactions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2019

Image via Wikipedia The challenge for all of us in business is to improve competitiveness by improving employee productivity and reducing costs. According to Gartner , one of the biggest drags on productivity is employee engagement, still hovering around 30 percent, and costing our businesses over $450 billion per year.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018? Find her @annawbarber.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

For many, it’s hard to make the switch from that top-down order-giving culture, and it’s hard to find the time to recruit and coach the new team members you need to scale the business to success. We all need to be humble and recognize that what we need to know about technology and the market changes daily.

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