Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The best of you train yourselves to show emotions sparingly and strategically, while the rest are convinced that emotions cannot be controlled , and are a function of culture and genetics. Write down your top 5 core values and review them often. Pressure and emotion in business is often an indication of core value conflicts.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Understand Personality Types – One of the benefits of working for a big company (Accenture) was that we had lots of speakers come in and train us in topics like leadership, creativity, presentations, strategy, etc. We had a training session from somebody who put up the four-quadrant graph you see above. Most of them sucked.

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Eric Greenspan

APRIL 11, 2019

Mine is writing this blog post, indirectly. The NHL thing didn’t work out, but the training, development and achievements along the way are deeply rooted within them, and this is helping them find something equally great, or maybe even better. Added after posting… My son Jacob just called me while I was writing this post.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2009

It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits ;-). They had a team trained up in Documentum and we certainly had enemies from the inside. We helped the write out their requirements for a system. Write things down. But we worked the account tirelessly for months.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2016

On a business team, the ability to communicate verbally and in writing is more important than technical depth. Provide required team integration, training and ongoing coaching. Next comes the more arduous process of reviewing every applicant, looking for key attributes including the following. Good communication skills.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

Instead of writing a book, we wanted to develop a platform to bring our methods to life, and scale our knowledge. For an educator, it helps to bring classroom training to life. But, it didn't seem scalable.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

In mentoring, we match experienced angel investors with, what I like to call them, “angels-in-training” so they can share the lessons learned. What has been exciting is the ripple effect of putting 10 angels-in-training and 10 women social entrepreneurs together in the same room. The third component is practice.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

There was no money train. Starting in 2009 I began writing checks consistently, year-in and year-out. I had realized that I didn’t have it within me to be as good of a player as many of them did but I had the skills to help as mentor, coach, friend, sparing partner and patient capital provider. It was 1991.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2011

Executives in an enterprise usually don’t write their own memos, contracts, and certainly don’t schedule their own meetings. That’s a whole different mindset and skill set from your experience and training in an enterprise. Training courses are required. Training courses are required. Executives have perks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Executives in an enterprise usually don’t write their own memos, contracts, and certainly don’t schedule their own meetings. That’s a whole different mindset and skill set from your experience and training in an enterprise. Training courses are required. Training courses are required. Executives have perks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Executives in an enterprise usually don’t write their own memos, contracts, and certainly don’t schedule their own meetings. That’s a whole different mindset and skill set from your experience and training in an enterprise. Training courses are required. Training courses are required. Executives have perks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2010

Executives in an enterprise usually don’t write their own memos, contracts, and certainly don’t schedule their own meetings. That’s a whole different mindset and skill set from your experience and training in an enterprise. Training courses are available. Training courses are available. Executives have perks.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

This class of investor typically writes checks from $50,000 to $250,000. 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. Accelerators.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2017

Leaders in an enterprise soon forget how to write contracts, manage cash flow, or even how to schedule their own time and events. Rely on training courses and coaching for new roles. There are no in-house experts or training organizations to rely on. You must be all of these and more.

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