Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

If you don’t need these common resources, but need specialized technology services, you should look for technology parks and research facilities, often sponsored by leading companies in specific technologies, like Intel New Business Initiatives and Google Ventures. billion, with the total amount raised topping $2 billion. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Ask for help from advisors and mentor your team. People don’t usually need to ask for help with their dreams, but no entrepreneur I know has built a successful business alone. Don’t let your pride or fear keep you from seeking the help that you need. Summon the courage stay optimistic, yet humble.

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Tech.Co

MAY 22, 2018

To help you crush your next investor meeting, we asked top VCs and tech leaders to share their best pitch advice. Early-stage founders want to say their company has the potential to be a billion-dollar company to grab the investor’s attention. The best advocate for your company is you. Take a look at what they had to say!

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2020

What was the biggest news for you/your company this year? This presented MomentFeed with an immense opportunity to help multi-location consumer brands meet the challenges brought on by an overnight shift in consumer shopping patterns. Are you a founder, CEO, or investor who would like to participate? Contact our editors for details.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2022

Thus, ever after years as an executive in IBM and other companies, I’m still looking for the magic. Howard Schultz, former chief executive of Starbucks, credits servant leadership with driving his company to scale so quickly to now almost 34,000 stores in 80 countries. Help constituents find meaning in what they do.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2023

If you don’t need these common resources, but need specialized technology services, you should look for technology parks and research facilities, often sponsored by leading companies in specific technologies, like Intel Capital and Google Ventures (GV). That’s about the same ratio that angel investors claim. Marty Zwilling

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Operating experience (Helped run parts of CitySearch & UrbanSpoon, tons of product management experience, Board of Hatch Labs which helped spawn Tinder). Helped merge company with Seedling – on track to do $20 million combined revenue in 2015 – will now become Chairman).

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Each new employee is asked to publicly declare their favorite superhero, which is then added to a large mural on display in the company’s lobby. . Always the serial entrepreneur, Jason is expanding Docstoc’s mission to include not just documents, but a variety of tools that help entrepreneurs run their businesses, such as ebooks and videos.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

This alone will improve your productivity and effectiveness in your current role, as well as give you a head start towards a future role, including a management role or starting your own company as an entrepreneur. Even the smartest team members and executives humble themselves and listen, although the message is often difficult to hear.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

If you don’t need these common resources, but need specialized technology services, you should look for technology parks and research facilities, often sponsored by leading companies in specific technologies, like Intel Capital and Google Ventures (GV). That’s about the same ratio that angel investors claim. Marty Zwilling.

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Eric Greenspan

APRIL 25, 2015

In 1995 I started my first company and bought a fleet of 3 Volkswagen Beetles. In 2000 I sold company 1, including the 3 VWs. The buyer hired me to run company 2. In 2001 I sold my interest in company 2 and started company 3. The relationship and company grew and became something I was truly proud of.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2020

I find business people all around me who are working hard to make more money, when what they really want is a work-life balance that allows them to enjoy family and help others. In other words, stay hungry and humble. By helping others, you become stronger in your eyes as well as theirs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Based on my own experience in large companies, as well as small ones, here are seven key strategies I recommend for building the teams and culture that will drive business success: Admit to yourself and others that you need help. Identify a business purpose and goals that motivate any team.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

Topics we covered: B2B Companies You haven’t seen the full extent to how the correction is going to affect you. I pointed out that throughout history building companies has always taken time and we as a market have put an urgency to rush growth rates. A seed company hasn’t ramped up its cost base. Harry posed these questions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2021

I will paraphrase her key recommendations here: Humbly share your knowledge and your expertise. To be perceived as a great group leader, you must display an ability to read today’s rapidly shifting contexts, and be able to help the team navigate the way forward. Be an astute context discerner and direction setter.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

We’ve had just one market since then and it could confuse one into thinking: every deal finds downstream investors, every company good or bad finds a home, you know anything at all about brazil, india, china or even saas sales, ecommerce or analytics (you know all these in a bull market). The longer I do this the more humbled I become.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2022

Thus I was pleased to see the same conclusion in a new book, “ CEO Excellence ,” by Carolyn Dewar, Scott Keller, and Vikram Malhotra, each a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company. Tap the wisdom of elders and the Board to help the business. Praise for teams always works better than criticism.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Jeff Bezos is one of the world’s most admired entrepreneurs, primarily because of his humble style and his growth from a regular person background to a current net worth in the neighborhood of $200 billion dollars. I urge all of you to think of your company journey as a lifetime, rather than a sprint.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2011

I’d like to start by asking each of you to consider helping under-privileged children in America get a little bit more than they have today. DonorsChoose let’s you “ hack their data &# in creative ways to create offerings that may be relevant to helping with education projects in America. It’s better than zero.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

What Cham rarely tells people – he’s both private and humble – is that he started making some small co-investments with me in tech firms starting with Maker Studios where he was one of the earliest investors. I reached out after the event to learn more. They make a great pair.

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2012

Are you the sort of person who relies on your friends to help you figure out the best places to explore on the web? Tim Sae Koo: What we try to do, is help you and your friends discover the web, through each other. The reason is, we work with your peers and close friends to help you discover the web together through them.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2016

This year's fest has expanded to included panels on how to grow your startup internationally, maintain your company culture, manage developers in multiple countries, and reach mainstream audiences using TV advertising combined with digital. In the first phase of many industries, you have an explosion of new ideas and companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Ask for help from advisors and mentor your team. People don’t usually need to ask for help with their dreams, but no entrepreneur I know has built a successful business alone. Don’t let your pride or fear keep you from seeking the help that you need. Summon the courage stay optimistic, yet humble.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 10, 2012

She’s worked for L’Oreal, Accenture, Virgin Mobile & BSkyB (one of the leading media companies in the UK). Most bosses are too busy to put in the real effort to help you. How can I best help you? Your job is to make your boss’s job easier – to help your boss succeed. Get over yourself.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2014

A humble and unassuming character, it’s almost hard to imagine he’s also responsible for arguably one of the most successful technology companies of our time. ” Chet went to college for history – not business – something he maintains has helped him in his career because history gives us context.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2014

I just suffered through the worst "can you help me" call of my career. It was a rather hapless soul who was seeking my help networking within Santa Barbara''s startup community. Lesson: Similarities breed liking and liking leads to a desire to help. I do not expect everyone I speak with to be a fan of my humble blog.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 14, 2014

Every day, 1000’s of new bright-eyed and bushy tailed companies sprout from depths of start-up soil. On Innovation Crush , Hamet Watt helps shed some light on the intricacies of successes – and failures – in the start-up community.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 15, 2010

And during the 1980’s in California there was also a period of explosive growth of sushi restaurants (introducing Americans to a little bit more of the Japanese culture) as well as a growth in the Japanese economy that had all American companies trying to understand Japanese processes and business structure ( Kanban , Keiretsu , etc.).

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Tech.Co

APRIL 7, 2020

The current Covid-19 pandemic has had an epochal effect on businesses, and even the humble office space has taken a blow, with millions of us now working from home. While most companies are able to continue operating with employees remote working, what about those businesses where the office itself is the revenue model?

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 3, 2014

Augusta''s rise from Zappos'' call center was enabled by the Company''s culture, which encourages personal growth. 10. Be Humble. "I So, I was selected and I''m just truly humbled and honored to be in this role and to do this work.". You can watch a 14-minute excerpt from my conversation with Augusta below.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

If you don’t need these common resources, but need specialized technology services, you should look for technology parks and research facilities, often sponsored by leading companies in specific technologies, like Intel Capital and Google Ventures (GV). That’s about the same ratio that angel investors claim. Marty Zwilling.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 10, 2018

Natalie Kaminski, CEO and cofounder of goBaby.co , an on-demand rental marketplace for baby gear that helps reduce stress of traveling with little kids, is hyper-focused on gaining the trust of mothers. For example, the company’s hashtag is #freetheV. Mentors can help you anticipate issues and plan for them accordingly.”.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 1, 2013

How did a small, open source software company from Finland capture billions in market share from Oracle? I started helping them with strategy in 2000 and then. spread over three different companies (and) we brought it all together. Marten continues his story by describing the company's first major challenge. We spent 1.6M

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 27, 2012

We got some good advice, we ignored it, and it… turned out to be one of the best things that happened to the company.” John made it clear to Brian that the Beatles’ role was to make the product and tend to the company’s operations. Stay Humble & Don’t Forget To Laugh. Don’t do it.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2012

He can’t help himself: He’s Dave. The Dave I know is very humble. How to help his companies. And from what I can tell he now getting the same quality of entrepreneurs and may already have the seeds of a great company within his stable. My pal Dave has blogger Tourette’s. He has it on stage, too, at conferences.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2013

He said he wanted to found this company (he had founded a previous company that sold for about $300 million) because he thought the Internet was a big idea. His goal in the second project is to help humans avoid extinction. I have never sat in a room with an individual where I felt more inspired and humbled.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

I always try my best to take meetings like this since my friend had clearly committed some political capital to his friend in saying he could help him get a meeting. She responded back that (paraphrasing), “he had gotten stuck at a conference with a very important potential advisor to his company. You should grovel.

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