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. We all need to be humble and recognize that what we need to know about technology and the market changes daily.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

But don’t expect incubators to magically convert your pre-hatched idea into a successful company. An incubator won’t help you if the market opportunity is small, the competitors are large, or your solution doesn’t address a real need. 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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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2020

So if you aspire to be the next Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates in business, you might want to compare the following traits to your own, and focus on adopting the ones you don’t have, as much as you focus on your next idea to change the world: Figure out first what you most want to achieve in life. In other words, stay hungry and humble.

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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? That's the idea behind HypeMarks (www.hypemarks.com), a new startup looking to tap into your social graph to guide you to the web. Where did the idea come from? What is HypeMarks all about?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2023

Another good online approach is a simple Internet search for articles like the “ The top 40 startup accelerators and incubators in North America in 2023 ” But don’t expect incubators to magically convert your pre-hatched idea into a successful company. Are you and your startup ready to make the cut? Marty Zwilling

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2022

Ask for help and support, rather than appearing to issue orders and assign blame. Stories are the most effective way to communicate an abstract or unfamiliar idea. This will get people’s respect and help you stay on point. Instead, be sure to highlight first what is working well, solutions, and successes.

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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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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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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Another good online approach is a simple Internet search for articles like the “ The top 40 startup accelerators and incubators in North America in 2020 ” But don’t expect incubators to magically convert your pre-hatched idea into a successful company. Are you and your startup ready to make the cut? Marty Zwilling.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Maine Medical Center, Maine’s largest hospital, is investing in their employees and giving them a chance to act on their innovative ideas that could transform healthcare. They also partner with business development experts to help participants transition from idea to intellectual property into partnerships and startups.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 14, 2014

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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socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Icon Media Direct described how it helped TrueCar use TV ads plus digital to reach mainstream audiences and increase revenue. Someone just thanked me last night, saying he got two clients at Silicon Beach Fest and was able to help several others. In the first phase of many industries, you have an explosion of new ideas and companies.

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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. He was interested in a few other big ideas. His goal in the second project is to help humans avoid extinction. Debate helps everybody learn as I wrote about here.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 15, 2010

I had been working on marketing & strategy initiatives for European telcos for the past several years helping them to think through and design Internet offerings. If I asked and my partner predictably told me “no&# then the only way to go would be to directly defy his instructions – never a great idea in business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

We now live in a world where even subtle persuasion efforts are suspect, so it’s a bad idea to go into a networking situation thinking you’re going to talk somebody into doing your bidding. Find ways to add value in expanding their thinking, making them feel better, and helping them take effective action. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Another good online approach is a simple Internet search for articles like the “ The top 40 startup accelerators and incubators in North America in 2018 ” But don’t expect incubators to magically convert your pre-hatched idea into a successful company. Are you and your startup ready to make the cut? Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2011

Jeff Zwelling is the co-founder of Convertro (www.convertro.com), a Los Angeles company focused on helping companies track how their marketing efforts are leading to sales conversions. That was actually a humbling moment. I'm constantly coming up with crazy ideas, and if he's comfortable with them, they usually end up being good ideas.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2011

Ranker helps Internet users find the most appropriate answers to questions that benefit from the wisdom of crowds. I have written about people who live by strong social contracts in Humble Pride. If someone is investing in me and my idea, I simply don’t want to let them down. Clark Benson is the Founder and CEO of Ranker.com.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2016

How do you find somebody that is exceptionally bright, driven and accomplished and yet still be humble enough to understand that the founders we back are the ones who have invented technologies and have to live with the day-to-day decision-making and hard choices. Please help me in congratulating him. I mean this seriously.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2018

It’s a growing challenge, since we now have four generations of workers together – Matures, Boomers, Gen X, and Millennials (Gen Y), all with different ideas of how an owner should act. Stay humble, but don’t be afraid to take a risk and own it. As a business owner, if you want people to take ownership with you, treat them like owners.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Don’t kid yourself and try to cover up the hurt with “My idea is just ahead of it’s time.” You know the service providers who can help you, and you know the investors that work in your territory. Overall you become a better person when you have been humbled by failure. A great entrepreneur is like a great racehorse.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

As an entrepreneur and startup investor, I have helped create companies which achieved two IPOs which collectively raised over $100 million, as well as two acquisitions which totaled $385 million. However, it is my hope that this article will help you avoid learning the following lessons the hard way. 3) Attempt To License An Idea.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2012

Don’t kid yourself and try to cover up the hurt with “My idea is just ahead of it’s time.” You know the service providers who can help you, and you know the investors that work in your territory. Overall you become a better person when you have been humbled by failure. A great entrepreneur is like a great racehorse.

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socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2017

What's the idea behind Maple Media? Some might be looking for some liquidity, they might want to sell their app outright, or it could be they want to cut a deal on the publishing side, and get some helping out with advertising and monetization. I've known Michael for eight years. It's hilarious, and I love that they did that.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 21, 2011

Following the 360-review, we devised an effective way to help the Founders expand their strategic effectiveness while ensuring that all of their prior responsibilities are appropriately fulfilled. . K = Time to Innovate/Incubate New Ideas. Fortunately, the Founders are comfortable delegating tasks to their highly talented Core Team.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

John Lusk, along with his Co-Author Kyle Harrison, leveraged their humble company''s newsletter into The MouseDriver Chronicles , a New York Times bestselling book. We''re motivated, passionate, excited, terrified and at many times, have absolutely no idea what we are doing. A version of this article previously appeared on Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

Talk to us about when you got the idea for BuildOnline and how that came to be – how you finally got out of the job. Probably the internet helped because they needed internet skills in their strategy group. We’ve got three months’ cash and I have no idea if we’re going to raise more money!” Ridesharing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2011

Don’t kid yourself and try to cover up the hurt with “My idea is just ahead of it’s time.” You know the service providers who can help you, and you know the investors that work in your territory. Overall you become a better person when you have been humbled by failure. A great entrepreneur is like a great racehorse.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I was learning Ruby on Rails just ahead of the students and wrote the tools to help them manage the servers in EC2. Towards the end of 2006 I realized that EC2 was transformative and that people needed help understanding it as well as tools to work it. Many people go back with lots of new ideas, experience, and energy.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

Good idea & plan: You must start with a good idea and a PowerPoint deck (my outline is here , scroll down mid way). Don’t worry if they can’t help in your daily business. There are other ways you can get help. It helps that my first company was actually founded in Ireland! I get that.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

John Lusk, along with his Co-Author Kyle Harrison, leveraged their humble company''s newsletter into The MouseDriver Chronicles , a New York Times bestselling book. We''re motivated, passionate, excited, terrified and at many times, have absolutely no idea what we are doing. A version of this article previously appeared on Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

It was humbling. The product was rebuilt and launched as Salesforce Ideas (and if memory serves it was also called the Ideas Exchange). The idea was to create a systematized way of letting your users and customers have a say in what your future product features should be. cared about the feature set.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 5, 2013

My job is to help you not get a job,” Marks announced. Investors in LA are not jaded and are still very receptive to ideas, unlike in Silicon Valley. LA is up and coming and is a great place to be because everybody is helping each other out. Marks: Mostly finding the right kind of investor who can help the startups.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 17, 2014

A Humble Guru. That helps me, social proof. I go and I talk to people and I use my blog as an opportunity to meet really interesting folk and share ideas.". If you haven''t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! You can watch my 14-minute conversation with Steve below. Share and Enjoy.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 22, 2016

And when I say maturity, I don’t necessarily mean age, although generally more life experience is helpful. Effective leaders are humble enough to be able to learn, but also confident enough to step up to challenges when they can add value. For example, many leaders are impatient when their ideas aren’t quickly accepted.

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