Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2017

In my years of mentoring and advising business leaders, I find that real planning for the future always gets the short shrift. I believe these factors are key to the future success of every new startup, as well as every mature company: Leadership must be values-based and people focused.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2021

As a mentor to many entrepreneurs, I also encourage an entrepreneur exit focus early, and I really like the specific steps outlined in the classic book, “ Exit Signs ,” by Pamela Dennis, who has helped companies through this critical transition for decades. Running a mature company is totally different from running a startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

For example , when Yvon Chouinard founded Patagonia , a successful outdoor products company, his real goal was building safe products to help the environment. Some people love starting companies, while others enjoy scaling them. Assess who you can get for value and mentoring. Document and communicate a solid business plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2022

As a mentor to many aspiring entrepreneurs, I’m often asked what it takes to get satisfaction from this lifestyle. These are ones behind many of the modern game-changing companies, like Pinterest and Tesla. Put it behind you by setting your own realistic metrics for success and happiness. Be prepared to experiment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Implicit in effective marketing of yourself and your solution are a set of skills that every professional needs and can develop over time in business, whether their focus is on career advancement, or starting your own company. They mentor each other, and seek out experts in domains outside their current expertise and experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2020

Implement the key business metrices you will live by. Identify the three most important metrics your business must hit every week to achieve growth goals. There are also many more stories of companies that pivoted too late. Increase you focus on coaching, training, and mentoring. Stay in your personal sweet spot.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

We have significant VC commitments (listed below) – every entering company will get $50,000 in funding, mentorship from top VCs and successful entrepreneurs plus free office space. For any company interested in applying please visit the website. To show these companies that they can remain in LA. For the past 2.5

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

This leads to a set of questions: What is the role of a CTO in the early stages of a company, and does that role change later on as both the company and that individual matures? It specifically answers the first questions about role and how it changes as the company matures. How will I know when the need has arisen?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2022

Even after many years mentoring entrepreneurs and advising businesses, I continue to be surprised by the primary focus on products and processes, and the often incidental attention to hiring and nurturing the right people. Use data analysis and metrics to measure for results. Subjectively measuring employee engagement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2020

In fact, I believe the majority of true entrepreneurs are not interested in this new role, and jump ship quickly by hiring an experienced CEO or merging with another company, to start their next entrepreneurial effort. Implement metrics and set objectives for every organization. You can’t manage what you don’t measure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2019

Image via Pixabay As a mentor to many small business owners, I always caution them that you can never relax completely, just because your initial solution or product set appears to be getting traction, and the market buzz is positive. Document processes and metrics for economies of scale.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2019

Based on my own experience in large and small businesses, as well as mentoring entrepreneurs, here is my list of behaviors which will keep you ahead of the pack: Focus on managing relationships more than tasks. Building new relationships, inside and outside the company, and nurturing old ones, is a key to long-term leadership.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2022

Thus, over the years of my mentoring and consulting efforts with entrepreneurs, I have a key list of practices that I recommend to everyone starting and growing a business. Use metrics on key deliverables to assure quality results. Big growth takes big investment. Formalize all business and partner agreements.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2022

As a mentor to business professionals, I find that many are frustrated that peers and managers don’t recognize the true value of their contributions. These authors bring years of experience to the subject of value and ROI competency building from their consulting efforts with major companies around the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2022

In my role as a mentor, I challenge every business leader to be more open-minded as they face the challenges of change and new competitors entering their space. Most business teams are risk averse, driven by their own fear of failure, or a company habit of penalizing failed attempts to implement change.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 28, 2017

She told us about why so many Los Angeles investors are supporting the company and gave us an overview of what PartySlate is all about. I tapped my co-founder, John Haro, who I worked for at Agency.com, and at another mobile marketing company, and we talked about the idea, ideated, and I brought him on as co-founder.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

In a larger public company, it’s all about making your quarterly numbers, versus investing in strategic growth alternatives that may not pay off until several quarters later. It’s your job as a leader to be the model high performer, quantify the team view with metrics, and expand awareness to the best outside competition and new tools.

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2012

We caught up with co-founder Michael Wong , who told us about how the company is looking to change the model for local check-ins, and also help businesses with getting the word out about their services. What's your background, and how did you decide to start the company? Can you talk about how your company is funded?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2015

In my perspective as an advisor and mentor to many entrepreneurs, there are a set of basic strategies that can be applied to every startup to dramatically improve the odds of success, no matter what the business domain. Define metrics to keep on track for the journey. Continually motivate and reward your team.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Months of submissions and the amazing help from our judges , the Spotlight is shinning down on awesome companies that were born right out of Southern California. And now without further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Winter Companies: Spotlight Companies. Bill serves on the boards of directors of numerous companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2018

In top current companies, such as Google, Apple, and Netflix, cultural strategies that include greater employee freedom and fostering creativity are the norm. Thus creating the right company culture must be a top priority of every entrepreneur and business leader. Establish metrics on the culture, as well as the product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

As a mentor to entrepreneurs, I often get asked for the magic that has made Amazon the world's most valuable brand , from a total unknown only twenty years ago. Incorporate AI-powered data and metrics systems. Make your company a ground-breaking invention machine. They help hiring managers raise the bar for every interview.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2014

It’s super hard not to want to spend more time with these companies. He’s an incredibly smart investor and somebody that I actually consider to be a mentor to myself. I always ask when somebody sends me a deal, for example, are you already a shareholder in the company? Why am I so lucky? I looked at all three deals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2020

As a mentor to many aspiring entrepreneurs, I’m often asked what it takes to switch and get real satisfaction from this lifestyle. These are ones behind many of the modern game-changing companies, like Pinterest and Foursquare. Put it behind you by setting your own realistic metrics for success and happiness.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2016

What types of companies will be part of Techstars LA? The companies really are at the discretion of the managing director and team on the types and focus areas of the companies who will be included. We started in Boulder, Colorado, all the way back in 2007, with just ten companies. billion combined.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2019

As I said in the beginning, people don’t trust what they don’t know, so make sure you communicate personally to the whole team, and to customers, your companies’ vision, goals, and challenges. Your role is to provide mentoring and support as required. Provide training and mentoring directed at career growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2017

Yet, in my experience as a mentor to entrepreneurs, the majority of failures I see are related to starting and growing the business, not developing the solution. Together they set the standard for collaboration and culture that will make or break the company. Manage the business with metrics and goals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2015

The good news is that recent big company financial woes and layoffs have generated a flood of candidates with real experience seeking positions at startups. Too many entrepreneurs naively believe that candidates with lofty titles from a larger company can easily do the same job for their startups. This doesn’t work in a startup.

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Jason Nazar

MAY 1, 2016

I’ve been a part of dozens (maybe hundreds) of product launches And in each of these cases I ask my team to put together a simple dashboard of a small set of metrics for our paid and free products that let me know the success of our efforts. For startup entrepreneurs, you can also track these metrics with Google analytics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2018

If you are one of these owners who wants to do the right thing to survive and delight your customers, but doesn’t know where to start, I am here to recommend some best practices that I see successful companies, and many startups, who have focused on this issue. Define stretch goals and challenge your team to deliver.

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Jason Nazar

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

I’ve been a part of dozens (maybe hundreds) of product launches And in each of these cases I ask my team to put together a simple dashboard of a small set of metrics for our paid and free products that let me know the success of our efforts. For startup entrepreneurs, you can also track these metrics with Google analytics.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

We caught up with Michele and Dan to better understand why they founded the company, and why this market was such an interest to them. Michele Ruiz: BiasSync provides a solution for companies, state and federal agencies, school districts, and organizations to assess and manage unconscious bias in the workplace. What is BiasSync?

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Tech.Co

APRIL 30, 2018

These founders talked to us about why building a company in Arlington has helped fuel their success. Powered by blockchain technology, this groundbreaking fintech company is one to watch, no matter what you’re invested in. makes it an outstanding place to build a tech company. This is where 1787fp comes in.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

As a mentor to many entrepreneurs, I also encourage an entrepreneur exit focus early, and I really like the specific steps outlined in the new book, “ Exit Signs ,” by Pamela Dennis, who has helped companies through this critical transition for decades. Running a mature company is totally different from running a startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2019

Get out of dead-end jobs, and don’t be afraid to move on to a new company if the current one is not healthy. Help your owner get beyond the misleading metrics of employee overtime and salary increases. Realize that your growth is related to business success. Recognize career growth requires changing with the business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2015

That fact eludes most executives from mature companies who have long depended on their staffs for real work, while their focus stays on strategy. Thus I don’t see many startups run in absentia or by big company executives. The founder needs to be a mentor and advisor, as well as a leader.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2016

It must be written down, with measurable team objectives, validated by metrics and compared against competition. Provide coaching and mentoring as well as training. A mission of superior customer service is more than words in the board room or words in front of customers. Most importantly, your actions speak louder than words.

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