Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2023

Measure by relationships as well as competitiveness. They mentor protégés on talent spotting, creativity, and motivation as well as strategy. They know that former direct reports can become highly valuable members of their network, and new business partners as either rise to new major roles elsewhere.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2021

In any case, your startup is now part of some investor’s portfolio, so you need to treat the situation like reporting to a new boss, and not like a new freedom. As an early-stage startup, you may have some hand-picked mentors as an Advisory Board, but now you need a formal Board with approval rights on all your strategic decisions and pivots.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Assess who you can get for value and mentoring. Disruptive technologies require the vision and willingness to take a big leap, whereas incremental changes to existing competition must be managed with data and finesse. You should pick an idea that you can hand off quickly to investors, or one you can grow as a legacy for your family.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2023

I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors. Mentoring and technical assistance from volunteer or paid experts. Shared business support services, including telephone answering, conference rooms, teleconferencing, administrative support, and a business mailing address.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors. Mentoring and technical assistance from volunteer or paid experts. Shared business support services, including telephone answering, conference rooms, teleconferencing, administrative support, and a business mailing address.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2021

Are you often frustrated that people reporting to you, or key peers, seem to dodge accountability for their actions? I often think of the scope of this example in my role as mentor to a struggling entrepreneur who is quick to blame his problems on employee mistakes, or even changing customer expectations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Measure by relationships as well as competitiveness. They mentor protégés on talent spotting, creativity, and motivation as well as strategy. They know that former direct reports can become highly valuable members of their network, and new business partners as either rise to new major roles elsewhere.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2019

Image via Wikipedia The challenge for all of us in business is to improve competitiveness by improving employee productivity and reducing costs. I loved it when my boss gave me the additional responsibility of mentoring others in solving tough problems. Many companies also promote local mentoring and coaching opportunities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2016

In case you don’t understand the urgency, just be aware that according to a recent Forrester report , nearly 95 percent of your competitors are saying that providing a good customer experience is their top strategic priority. It must be written down, with measurable team objectives, validated by metrics and compared against competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2016

Visit the university library for access to otherwise costly business reports. Other project and research reports in their library are a rich source of new ideas, if you are still looking for a place to start. Access to entrepreneurs-in-residence, business mentors. Access to intellectual property and current research.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. pushing CEOs and business owners to innovate to outperform the competition. PricewaterhouseCoopers' Vision To Reality Program for Emerging Tech Companies. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Helping entrepreneurs succeed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Unfortunately, too many of the technical entrepreneurs I mentor and advise are focused on their technology, and assume that the value will be self-evident to customers. Tech may be the tool, but hospitality – making life a little easier, more comfortable, and more enjoyable for your customer, is the winning focus.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2015

In any case, your startup is now part of some investor’s portfolio, so you need to treat the situation like reporting to a new boss, and not like a new freedom. As an early-stage startup, you may have some hand-picked mentors as an Advisory Board, but now you need a formal Board with approval rights on all your strategic decisions and pivots.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

She offers seven ways that business owners can identify and evolve with future trends, which I agree with and amplify here: Take advantage of industry research and trend reports. Find mentors and advisors who have more relevant business experience, insist you see things that aren’t on your radar, and spot what’s coming around the corner.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2017

In this age of information overload, success is all about building a brand that stands out above the competition. In my long-time role as a mentor and business advisor, I still see too many people who are waiting to be found as a candidate for their dream role, or waiting for investors to find their startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

In any case, your startup is now part of some investor’s portfolio, so you need to treat the situation like reporting to a new boss, and not like a new freedom. As an early-stage startup, you may have some hand-picked mentors as an Advisory Board, but now you need a formal Board with approval rights on all your strategic decisions and pivots.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2014

In any case, your startup is now part of some investor’s portfolio, so you need to treat the situation like reporting to a new boss, and not like a new freedom. As an early-stage startup, you may have some hand-picked mentors as an Advisory Board, but now you need a formal Board with approval rights on all your strategic decisions and pivots.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2016

Measure by relationships as well as competitiveness. They mentor protégés on talent spotting, creativity, and motivation as well as strategy. They know that former direct reports can become highly valuable members of their network, and new business partners as either rises to major new roles elsewhere.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

. “The lines between informal and formal education are blurring,” observes Betsy (Elizabeth) Corcoran, CEO and Co-Founder of EdSurge , a leading industry publication that reports on education technology trends. ” Startup Weekend EDU will focus on building applications and developing education-based use cases around them.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Tanz has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine “Young Millionaires of 2011 Special Report.” Though competitors have sprung up, Tanz welcomes the competition to help define the market. Targeting images and adding video content is a nice premium alternative to the traditional buys that are extremely competitive.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

How do we need to structure the systems to get ahead and stay ahead of the competition? Given likely market changes, how will we design and build so that the systems can respond to marketplace changes? What are the biggest areas of technical risk? How can we address this risk? What technology research is required? Accounting?

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2016

The “ real gold ” of Silicon Valley reportedly lies in its mentors. What’s more, strategic locations can benefit from varying global legislation: influencing competitor clauses, user privacy data collection, and tax laws amongst other factors that can give a company a powerful competitive edge.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2010

It will inspire loyalty, provide real satisfaction for work done, and become the basis for mentoring and performance reviews. Managers who fail to delegate responsibility in addition to specific tasks eventually find themselves reporting to their subordinates and doing some of the work, rather than vice versa. Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

That’s our great gain as Snapchat has also raised a lot of money at a monster valuation ($10 billion reported) and has been scooping up talented Stanford engineers and relocating them to LA. Local mentors matter. No – I’m not worried about the competition. Locally we call it “the Snapchat effect.”

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

How do we need to structure the systems to get ahead and stay ahead of the competition? Learning, Networking, Mentors From the question, this person is clearly looking at the issue of how to grow into this role. I believe you will find lots of CTOs quite willing to help you as a mentor. How can we address this risk? Accounting?

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Frank Addante

MAY 12, 2007

► February (1) What do you do when a reporter you admire misrepre. This is probably due to their extreme focus on education and the lure and competition of their quickly growing tech economy. Now, there is so much competition that it is very, very difficult to keep people. ► March (1) Office 2.0:

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

One of the big questions, probably the biggest questions that I get from reporters, is 'what trends do you see? Often board members give entrepreneurs two bits of advice regarding scale: Get a mentor. There is no competition. I’m going to try to do something for you guys that I’ve always resisted doing. Has convertible debt won?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2017

These will provide the competitive edge you need with customers and less-focused team members. No single person knows enough to solve every problem in a business, so the best business executives are always anxious to listen and learn from others, especially mentors and customers. Demonstrates an ability to listen and learn.

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