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5 Keys To Effective Entrepreneurial Team Mentoring

Startup Professionals Musings

I believe you can be much more productive, as well as a more effective leader, if you approach most meetings as mentoring opportunities, and limit them to five minutes. I have used this approach with high-tech roles, like software design, as well as business development roles. The mentor assumes a role of a facilitator.

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Let Five-Minute Mentoring Scale Your Productivity

Startup Professionals Musings

I believe you can be much more productive, as well as a more effective leader, if you approach most meetings as mentoring opportunities, and limit them to five minutes. I have used this approach with high-tech roles, like software design, as well as business development roles. The mentor assumes a role of a facilitator.

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Five-Minute Mentoring for Effective Leadership

Startup Professionals Musings

I believe you can be much more productive, as well as a more effective leader, if you approach most meetings as mentoring opportunities, and limit them to five minutes. With the mentoring approach, the mentee asks for your support in their decision, or asks for your insight on the considerations for them making a future decision.

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Don’t Allow an Hour for a Five-Minute Discussion

Startup Professionals Musings

I believe you can be much more productive, as well as a more effective leader, if you approach most meetings as mentoring opportunities, and limit them to five minutes. I have used this approach with high-tech roles, like software design, as well as business development roles. The mentor assumes a role of a facilitator.

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What Mattered in 2012: Howard Marks, StartEngine

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For the last week of the year, we're featuring the thoughts and reflections of some of the movers and shakers of Southern California's high tech community. We were also about to build a really solid mentor network in a short period of time, pulling in about 250 CEO's and CTOs, from all backgrounds and locations. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Alex Schneider, Ventura Ventures Technology Center

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On Thursday, the City of Ventura is formally launching a new incubator, the Ventura Ventures Technology Center (www.v2tc.com), targeted at high tech businesses. In fact, they just helped us invest in Lottay, where we participated in their Series A round of investment. We ended up selecting DFJ Frontier.

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Startup Accelerators are Entrepreneur Boot Camps

Startup Professionals Musings

TechStars has several excellent mentors on staff, led by founder and CEO David Cohen. By way of a definition, a business or startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable.