Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2019

Most entrepreneurs are not born with the knowledge to run a successful business, so the right place to start is some business training in school, or some practical work experience in a business of your interest, prior to starting your own company. Planning is about preparing for the future, not predicting it.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The startup, which launched earlier this month, said it has created an app which helps provide pathways to the education and training you need for the job you want. The app then seeks to connect users with local educational opportunities to gain those skills. The startup is led by founder and CEO Deborah Ramo. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

As a business consultant with experience in large companies as well as startups, I often hear about dysfunctional management hierarchies, as well as the value provided by exceptional ones. These authors provide inside details of recent management experiments, as well as historical data from both successful and failed traditional companies.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Our online solution combines both scientific methodology, as well as highly produced, entertaining, professional development content around education and awareness of unconscious bias. It's education, measurement, analysis, and ongoing mitigation strategy. Here, we wanted to build a Netflix-like experience for this.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2015

Today’s customers demand more than a good product; they expect a great customer experience. People love Apple’s whole customer experience, and willingly pay a premium for the product. Much has been written about product design, but designing the total experience from the front rarely happens yet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2022

That means making sure the right people are hired, trained, and in the right place at the right time. With a startup, everything is an experiment. Now the experiments are over, and high productivity is the objective. Growing the company means growing people through mentoring and training.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2022

From my experience, and the experience of other entrepreneurs, here are the key elements you should think about as part of the process: Personal interests and aspirations. Is your mind full of ideas for repeating the experience, or are you looking to build a family business that you make your legacy? What other roadblocks exist?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2012

But once you start selling products, all of these pale in comparison to the level of customer experience you provide. Define specific innovation objectives and rewards for improving the customer experience. Train every employee to be a customer service champion. Create superior customer value.

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APRIL 10, 2013

They are genuinely creating these podcasts to educate and inspire people who love building products as much as they do. They focus on a specific market and over deliver quality education. These three companies focus on dedication to consumer experience. They are all dynamic and the experience is consistently flawless.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

But to scale the business, they need the complementary expertise, experience, connections, oversight, and new capital connections of a formal board of directors. In addition to fresh products, you need people smarter than you for real help, with the right combination of skills, experience, and passion to foster and manage new growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

You might find on-the-job experiences more valuable than all your other courses, or you might change your major. Amazingly, it seems that people in business are more highly educated these days, but less well prepared than ever before.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Kulhan is a professor at the Duke University School of Business, but was trained in improvisation by some comedy greats, including Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Build team trust through shared experiences. Improvisation does require training. Teams need to bond, and that can start with an off-site structured event.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2020

That means making sure the right people are hired, trained, and in the right place at the right time. With a startup, everything is an experiment. Now the experiments are over, and high productivity is the objective. Growing the company means growing people through mentoring and training.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2021

From his experience as a consultant with major brands, and as a Top 50 Keynote Speaker in the World, Simon outlines six key steps in moving your company to this new reality. I will paraphrase his guidance here, combined with my own experience: Elevate health and wellness of people and planet first.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 19, 2018

He observed that the process we follow to be humane in our handling of under-performing employees, manage the risk of future lawsuit, finally then move to separate the employee, define the open position, recruit the candidate, train the new hire and count the new hire as up to speed in the job can take all of eighteen months.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Most entrepreneurs are not born with the knowledge to run a successful business, so the right place to start is some business training in school, or some practical work experience in a business of your interest, prior to starting your own company. Planning is about preparing for the future, not predicting it.

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socalTECH

JULY 8, 2021

It's segregated from where we are, but on campus in the same location, where they will be getting their education in that location. It's a combination of all of that thinking, which will allow them not to just come out with a diploma, but with some real world experience they can apply in their lives and create careers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

From my experience, and the experience of other entrepreneurs, here are the key elements you should think about as part of the process: Personal interests and aspirations. Is your mind full of ideas for repeating the experience, or are you looking to build a family business that you make your legacy? What other roadblocks exist?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 30, 2012

LA CEOs, an education and support group for CEOs presents: Scrum for CEOs - How to Manage Teams in a 2.0 s experience with Scrum, which began with training from with Master Scrum Trainer Scott Downey. Thursday, August 2, 2012 -- LA CEOs presents: Scrum for CEOs. Does your development team need ?just just two more weeks?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2021

Here are a few facts from the National Council on Economic Education emphasizing the need for more business training, starting much earlier: More than 1 in 6 students in the USA do not have a baseline level of financial literacy. Nearly 1/4 of millennials spend more than they earn. Nearly 1/4 of millennials spend more than they earn.

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Eric Greenspan

APRIL 3, 2016

Turns out also, AYSO has much better processes and education than I had expected. Big difference from my AYSO initial experience. I asked my division leader if there was a training for this. I didn’t like the experience with AYSO at first. To be honest, the guy was a putz. Maybe too much on his plate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

In my experience on both sides of the business management aisle, I see the value of these authors’ focus on the power of effective and timely praise in reinforcing behavior that moves people closer to their goals and yours: Praise people immediately for doing something right. Tell them why it is important and how good you feel.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Of course, the first requirement is to get the education and tools you need to feel confident that you are ready, and have the mindset to be a leader in every role. As satisfying as it is to feel you are helping others at your level or below, you will learn more from people with more role expertise and management experience.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2017

There's a big disconnect between their education and employment. We raised a bunch of money, and funded training programs for underserved communities for entry level jobs, which would lead to careers in the entertainment industry. People fall out of their education for a number of different reasons.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

We have all heard the saying that first impressions count big, but in fact, you judge other people continually by your impressions of their competence, unless and until they provide you credible evidence of something better – through smart impression management or marketing of their experience, skills, and results.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Origin Code Academy, one of San Diego’s few coding schools—for-profit companies that offer short-term vocational training in computer programming—said this month it will shutter on Nov. 16 after about three years in business. Dozens of such institutions, Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2018

EDUCATION Bachelor of arts, majoring in commercial recreation/business, Central Michigan University; master of business administration, Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. operations for AVIXA (the Audiovisual and Integrated Experience Association), including marketing and communications, U.S. Voorhees, CAE.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2015

From my experience, and the experience of other entrepreneurs, here are the key elements you should think about as part of the process: Personal interests and aspirations. Is your mind full of ideas for repeating the experience, or are you looking to build a family business that you make your legacy? What other roadblocks exist?

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Despite the proliferation of entrepreneurial courses within Business Administration programs, business schools are essentially vocational training grounds for consultants and investment bankers. Limited Entrepreneurial Experience - The admission process of top business schools emphasizes undergraduate grades and standardized test scores.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Manrique Brenes: I am a actually formally trained in water resources management. We have an interesting combination of consumer electronics experience, cloud based services, and I come with the experience in the field of irrigation. What''s your background? I worked in the industry for ten years. How are you approaching that?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Natalie has pulled together a program, including training, hearing from traditional venture capitalists and GPs who speak about their experience and how they work through deal flow, all the way through impact investing. My participation has been on the impact investing and education side, where I''ve been involved as a mentor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

But to scale the business, they need the complementary expertise, experience, connections, oversight, and new capital connections of a formal board of directors. In addition to fresh products, you need people smarter than you for real help, with the right combination of skills, experience, and passion to foster and manage new growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

Kulhan is a professor at the Duke University School of Business, but was trained in improvisation by some comedy greats, including Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Build team trust through shared experiences. Improvisation does require training. Teams need to bond, and that can start with an off-site structured event.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2017

From my experience, and the experience of other entrepreneurs, here are the key elements you should think about as part of the process: Personal interests and aspirations. Is your mind full of ideas for repeating the experience, or are you looking to build a family business that you make your legacy? What other roadblocks exist?

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 17, 2014

Stop complaining about how difficult it is to encourage well-mannered, highly educated, civilized professionals to work together. The Filthy Thirteen was part of an elite Army commando unit which was selected and trained to destroy targets behind enemy lines. Major Reisman requires the DD to build their barracks in the training camp.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2013

From my experience, and the experience of other entrepreneurs, here are the key elements you should think about as part of the process: Personal interests and aspirations. Is your mind full of ideas for repeating the experience, or are you looking to build a family business that you make your legacy? What other roadblocks exist?

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

While cybersecurity training seems to be experiencing a groundswell moment, (e.g., BT Security recently partnered with ISC(2) to train security staff), solving this problem will take years, and the skills challenge will likely get worse before it gets better. Invest more in training and optimizing the usage of existing staff.

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