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What Startup Advisors Do I Need?

SoCal CTO

But, advisors, coaches, and mentors can often fill the bill. I recommend looking at the Founder’s Institute Founder Advisor Standard Template (FAST) Agreement as a template for this relationship. We both felt that most startups are not taking a very systematic approach to defining with they need in terms of advisors.

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6 Mindsets That Separate the Most Effective Leaders

Startup Professionals Musings

You as the leader need only to set the template and the tempo, like conducting an orchestra, and demand and reward disciplined execution of tasks that only the team can do. You must build a foundation of trust to get the relationships you need for honest communication, focus on the future, and real coaching on how to improve the business.

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codeSpark:Teaching Kids Software Coding Without Words

socalTECH

Like me, he was a dad, has three kids, and was a Lego Robotics coach for 7 years. With Foos Studios, we'll continue to release templates for games, but also we're releasing templates for animated storytelling, for digital art, for making interactive greeting cards for mom and dad, and even things like choreography.

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Startup Sales – Why Hiring Seasoned Reps May Not Work

Both Sides of the Table

The specific things you’re looking for are: intelligence, ability to think creatively, ability to work with customers on vaguely defined problems, ability to assemble an ROI business case (with a template already created by marketing) and above all else the ability to listen, summarize and follow-through.

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Do VC Platforms Make Sense?

Both Sides of the Table

They offer leadership conferences, regular content articles on leadership, board pack templates and the like. We also speak a lot about the role that executive coaches can play at companies in improving management coherence and alignment and we want to bring in outsiders to better help us work as a team.