Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2021

Train them fully, give them authority, make them accountable, and tie their pay to customer satisfaction. Train and coach continuously. Companies with great service routinely spend 3% to 5% of salaries training team members – experienced as well as new. Know your customers intimately.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2021

Perhaps you need to do more to be a role model for accountability , and provide more coaching on exactly what it means. He later closed more than 8,000 of his stores for a day to provide employee racial-bias training. They provide ongoing motivation by recognizing and rewarding effort, and the training to do the job right.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2020

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. Business risks are not just development risks. Value creation. Idea management.

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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. Entrepreneurs have to embrace creativity and change, yet move quickly with trained teams who can deliver repeatable processes. Business processes can be your biggest time saver, or your biggest waste.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2022

Today’s pace of change in the market and in technology is unprecedented. Priority is placed on employee mentoring and coaching. A primary focus on process leads to highly structured training classes, leaving little room for personal career development. Process leadership focuses on repeatability and efficiency only.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2022

For example, Howard Schultz at Starbucks was quick to accept accountability for a racial bias incident a few years ago in one of his stores in Philadelphia, and he shut down all his stores for an anti-bias training session, rather than try to blame a single store employee or overall cultural conditions.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 23, 2012

LAVA Healthcare is an ongoing conversation about how we might fix the healthcare-industry's mess applying innovation across a wide range of dimensions  including technology, business models, patient involvement, offshore outsourcing, and training programs. Neal is a remarkably smart and insightful speaker. See [link] (more)

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2022

With the multiple technologies of team videos, smartphones, email, and the pervasive Internet facilitating total communication, there is no need for the delay and information loss of multiple hierarchy levels in business. You need to be a mentor and coach on a regular basis, rather than follow a formal appraisal process that everyone dreads.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 13, 2017

VentureWell, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit that supports science and technology entrepreneurs, has selected a medical simulation startup founded by University of Maine students to receive funding and training. The company, Zephyrus Simulation LLC, was spun off from a product developed by a group of bioengineering students at UMaine.

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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

MARCH 4, 2022

That means making sure you are utilizing coaching and mentoring, as well as training to keep up with changes in technology and the marketplace. Make sure you are fostering people development to their full potential, for them and for your business. Demand and reward speedy analysis and execution.

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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

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

These days, with all the new technology, including smartphones and social media, many are convinced that multi-tasking is the answer. Examples of companies already coaching their teams on these mental strategies include Google, Starbucks, AOL, and more: Mentally be fully present and engaged in the current task.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2019

I found many more helpful suggestions in a new book, “ The Culture Question ,” by Randy Grieser, Eric Stutzman, Wendy Loewen, and Michael Labun, who have spent years providing leadership and professional development training to companies around the world. Proactively provide support and training.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In my experience working with investors, I find their assessment of value in a business, and an entrepreneur, is all about results, rather than the idea or the technology. Of course, you need to support this culture by providing continuous opportunities for training and industry updates, and coaching as well as feedback sessions.

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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. Examples of companies already coaching their teams on these mental strategies include Google, Starbucks, AOL, and more: Mentally be fully present and engaged in the current task.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2022

In the entrepreneur world, I feel we are in such a situation now for new startups, with the confluence of business transformations, the explosion of new digital technologies, and the political turmoil around the world. It’s easier and cheaper to start a company than ever before, yet it’s tougher than ever to survive.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

There was no money train. I was in it for the love of working with entrepreneurs on business problems and marveling at technology they had built. I have often thought that creative endeavors where one has a quick turn-around between idea and realization of one’s work as one of the more fulfilling experiences in life. It was 1991.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2015

Innovative technologies have no value until they are turned into solutions to real customer problems. Training and coaching. But these still need coaching on the unknowns, and ongoing education to keep up with the industry and the technology. Your people are the key to innovation, more so than a new technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2021

First, you as the leader must be a role model for the actions you desire – including positive communication, active coaching, rewards for results, as well as providing required tools and training. Inspire your teams with love and affirmation. Provide constant innovation in processing feedback.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2019

Today’s pace of change in the market and in technology is unprecedented. Priority is placed on employee mentoring and coaching. A primary focus on process leads to highly structured training classes, leaving little room for personal career development. Process leadership focuses on repeatability and efficiency only.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2018

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. Business risks are not just development risks. Value creation. Idea management.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 10, 2016

One more thing: supervisors need first–hand experience of working virtually in order to support, motivate and coach their teams. But technology makes the miles disappear. We hold weekly “dodgeball” training sessions where team members toss questions at the trainers. Send the supervisors home too. Are you kidding?

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

In most cases, these applicants for equity funding must be rooted in technology to apply to this limited discussion. VCs often invest no less than $2 million in a single deal, finding it difficult to put less money to work and still spend time on boards and coaching entrepreneurs to a successful liquidity event. Venture farms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2016

According to many observers , we can thank or blame technology for these higher expectations, providing information at the speed of light, leading everyone to expect more. Some entrepreneurs are so focused on their technology, they assume their customers think the same way. Provide coaching and mentoring as well as training.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2014

Most technology startups seem to be funded by product people or business people. I had never had any sales training so everything we did for the first couple of years was instinctual. I had never had any sales training so everything we did for the first couple of years was instinctual. My first startup was no different.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Elon Musk , as an example, is impressive in his broad knowledge and interest in electric vehicles, getting humans into space, and new energy technologies. Provide the resources and training to get the job done. Through mentoring and coaching, you can build a culture of sharing and collaboration throughout the team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2019

A recent high-profile one, Theranos , the blood-testing company, had no trouble getting customers, but promised more than their technology could deliver, Another, Shyp , an early on-demand delivery platform, blamed their demise on premature scaling. Demand continuous innovation to keep up with change.

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StartUp Beat

JANUARY 24, 2018

They make great employees, in other words, says Thornton – the co-founder of Coding Autism, a professional coaching and training company for adults on the autism spectrum. Technology, explains Rosenberg, is the way to reach them. Geeking out with Tech Kids Unlimited. photo courtesy of @TechKidsU.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2017

You must provide your team with constant training and support on what good execution looks like, and a follow-up process. The solution is people-focused managers, who practice empathy and coaching to check alignment, rather than looking backward only at results. Update skill requirements as technology and the market changes.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

Richards--a serial entrepreneur who has been involved in a number of technology companies here, including NTI Group (sold to Blackboard), Internships.com, MP3.com, What we found, if people wanted help finding a job right away, and didn't want to be trained in how to look for a job.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2016

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. Business risks are not just development risks. Value creation. Idea management.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Anne Fulton: Fuel50 is a career pathing startup, part of the HR technology landscape. We're a disruptor, the third wave in human resources technology. You can find a mentor, a coach, a project, or experience, to help you prepare for the role you are looking for. What is Fuel50? The whole space has been neglected.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2019

In fact, I found some excellent guidance on how to capitalize on your strengths, as well as areas that you may need to focus, in a new book, “ The Introvert’s Complete Career Guide ,” by Jane Finkle, also one of us, who has been a successful career coach for more than two decades. Keep ahead of others on use of new technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Mentoring and training programs need to be put in place early. Technology can be used to facilitate customer support and sales, as well as enhance your product. They need opportunities to do new work and try out new roles, as well as have access to training updates in their current positions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2015

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. Entrepreneurs have to embrace creativity and change, yet move quickly with trained teams who can deliver repeatable processes. Business processes can be your biggest time saver, or your biggest waste.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2017

Today’s pace of change in the market and in technology is unprecedented. Priority is placed on employee mentoring and coaching. A primary focus on process leads to highly structured training classes, leaving little room for personal career development. Process leadership focuses on repeatability and efficiency only.

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