Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2010

It makes no sense to meet in August or December due to travel schedules of most investors. For the record, this is not a secret, coded messages to companies for which I am on the board! And let’s be honest, other than money and coaching most VC’s add little value to your company strategy.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

I spent nearly a decade building software for large companies and then advising companies on the same. Yes, I know it’s my job as the CEO to be the coach for people and that’s fine. If you’re not then you’re not trying hard enough. Good entrepreneurs have a penchant for doing vs. over-analyzing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Reviewing financial & operational performance. Selling tons of “shelfware” (customers who buy but don’t use your software) and thus having bad customer references. Defections of large swaths of talented employees due to low morale. Offering a sparring-partner function on strategic decisions. Mentorship.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2009

There are people like Gus Tai who any entrepreneur who’s worked with him well tell you is that he has helped coach them into building a great business. Many years ago I worked at Andersen Consulting, originally developing software for large corporations and then as a strategy consultant. There are many great VCs. Let me explain.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2018

This is true of any buying process where a customer has to make a large investment decision on your software or when an investor must decide whether to give you $5 million. I spend a lot of time coaching entrepreneurs through their fund-raising processes by doing “pipeline reviews” of all of the firms with whom they are speaking.

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Funding Software Review Entrepreneur Venture Capital 189

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2009

It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits ;-). Two weeks after winning the deal and well into implementation planning we released a new version of our software. How could a company like ours be so callous as not to support their software (even one more than 4 years out of date)?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2015

Many consultants today are hard to contact between scheduled meetings, due to their formal communication processes. If your customer dress code or decisions process is informal, you should adapt yours to fit in, rather than continue to act and look like an outsider. Adapt a style to meet the new business work models.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 7, 2013

According to SGL, developers can now submit their apps for review and have their press releases and updates distributed on the Stained Glass Labs website, which gives them the quick feedback from other developers and the ability to submit press releases, which are sent to members of the media interested in Google Glass and wearable technologies.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

BlackTech Week was created by the leadership team from Code Fever to accelerate and support the innovation of black communities through training, networks and funding. “ Their investor bootcamps help educate new investors about due diligence, valuation, and more.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

com) � backed by local investors Rincon Venture Partners and Bonfire Ventures�is helping to solve that problem, with its career pathing software designed for helping employees at large enterprises figure out what's next. You can find a mentor, a coach, a project, or experience, to help you prepare for the role you are looking for.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In addition to a one-off grant of $5,000, successful applicants will receive a range of perks including peer coaching, a free Luminary membership, and the chance to participate in expert-led workshops. To be eligible for the Marshall giveaway, you need to identity as a women, and be based in one of the 50 US states.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2019

For example, as a software executive, I once had a talented engineer working for me who was always helping others, to the extent that he consistently missed his own project deadlines, and was ruining his health through lack of sleep. It’s time to stop jeopardizing your own future. Positively point out a better alternative source for answers.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2017

Our interview this morning is with Jonathan Zweig , the CEO of Los Angeles-based AppOnboard (www.apponboard.com), which has created software which allows mobile app developers--and in particular, mobile game developers--to create demos of those games which can be played without having to download and install those apps.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 5, 2012

Teams reconvened Saturday morning at 9:00 AM and continued to code and build their startup throughout the day. Tyler Crowley, of Sqweal, Launch, ThisWeekInStartups, Open Angel Forum, and Mahalo, stopped by to give a quick coaching session on pitch prep. By 10:00 PM, teams were working away into the night. making this their first SWLA.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2018

If you find yourself in this category, you need to focus on techniques to improve your productivity On software teams, for example, a detailed study published years ago shows differences as great as ten to one in productivity between comparable team members. Limit your daily “to-do” list to the top three results due soon.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2017

His 30 years of business and coaching experience bring credibility to his perspective. Smart business executives learn to use new technology software to give them new insights and more free time. After a good night’s sleep we are relaxed and ready to review the good news, and take on the challenges of strategic issues.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

There were startups and a software industry but barely. SEEING THINGS FROM THE VC SIDE OF THE TABLE While I was a VC in 2007 & 2008 those were dead years because the market again evaporated due the the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). There was no money train. It was 1991. We still loved every moment.

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