Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2022

Based on my own mentoring and investing experience, the best entrepreneurs are pragmatic problem solvers. If you can explain the problem to a mentor, or even write it down, you will more likely get to the root cause quickly, and avoid emotional and blame-infused responses. Explore solutions, outcomes, and options calmly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2011

Every first-time entrepreneur, or even an experienced founder stepping into a new business area, needs a mentor. A mentor is a confidant who has been there and done that, and is willing to guide your steps. Later, the great Warren Buffet became his mentor on many corporate matters. Mentors are not like lovers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

A very credible starting point is the classic book “ Promote Yourself: The New Rules For Career Success ” by Dan Schawbel, managing partner of Millennial Branding, a Gen Y research and consulting firm. It can also help you better relate to others and become more self-aware. Gallup's Clifton Strength Finder. Career Key.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Research current success stories and role models. Find a business mentor, as well as a friend. A mentor is someone who will tell you what you need to hear, while a friend might tell you what you want to hear. Volunteer to help organizations related to your interest. You don’t learn anything while talking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2021

If you are active in helping others with what you know, they will be much more open to help you when you need it. Nominate someone as your mentor. Build a two-way relationship with several people who can help you, and then kick it up a notch with one or more, by asking them to be your mentor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2022

For example, TOMS shoes inspired everyone by highlighting and effectively communicating a higher purpose from founder Blake Mycoskie of helping the needy by donating a pair of shoes for every pair sold. Everyone needs to understand what drives you, and how they can help you achieve your purpose. People need to see you as a person.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Mentoring and technical assistance from volunteer or paid experts. If you don’t need these common resources, but need specialized technology services, you should look for technology parks and research facilities, often sponsored by leading companies in specific technologies, like Intel New Business Initiatives and Google Ventures.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2020

Most aspiring entrepreneurs look to their alma mater, or any university, as a source of classes that can help them, but neglect to think outside the box or take advantage of all the other resources to be found there. Access to intellectual property and current research. Get help with grant funding and incubator resources.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 8, 2014

He goes on to point out three powerful aspects of adult friendships (paraphrased below): 1) Friendship helps people make better judgments (by) thinking through problems together and it allows you to see yourself through sympathetic eyes. In addition to non-coworker friends, entrepreneurs should also proactively seek mentors.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

A new startup Meritful, out of Michigan Univeristy and accelerated and funded through Ann Arbor SPARK has launched into public beta to unite both students and mentors or even teachers. Meritful is a professional network for students and mentors. If you are a teacher or mentor, Meritful helps you run projects and engage with students.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2017

To help fix that, the startup has created a mobile app to guide people through their strengths, interests, key skills, and more to guide them along the way to a career they'll love. Since then, I have worked extensively with mentoring youth, and helping them figure out what's possible in terms of careers. How did this start?

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 29, 2018

CTA also has a massive global network and startup programs that help their 2,000+ members navigate through everything from daily challenges to government regulations, and create opportunities for founders thrive. Add Mentors to Your Roster. Regardless of one’s stage, mentors are a must have for any founder.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2010

Here is a short list of the areas where you should be able to find help, whether you are a student or an independent entrepreneur: Finding an idea. Research and development. Take advantage of the labs, equipment, and skilled students available and looking for real world problems to research.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Annie is well positioned to write a book on decision analysis, combining her decades as a professional poker player with her graduate psychology research at the University of Pennsylvania. Join A Truth-seeking Pod – Annie was mentored by several veteran poker players. For me, the book fulfilled this promise.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2022

According to Forrester Research, 44% of online consumers say that having questions answered by a live person while in the middle of an online purchase is usually a decision maker. At least, these professional networking events allow you to get out of the office and meet people who can help. Stay current.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Maybe starting a new business isn’t your passion, but in these days of rapid change, where everyone is dealing with uncertainty, I believe that thinking and acting like entrepreneurs will help you get ahead in any profession. Nurture relationships with people who can really help. Stop letting life decisions happen to you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Workship - Mentor. Unlike the mentor, who is a coach and teacher, the advocate inspires you to be the best that you can be. The communicator is always researching the latest info, and keeps you in the loop on what’s happening in the business and why. Workship - Advocate. Workship - Communicator.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2023

Listen to your team, mentors, and customers to recognize real successes and failures, and surround yourself with people who can fill in the gaps. Research indicates this alone leads to higher performance much of the time. We all have strengths and weaknesses. Always dig a level deeper. Commit, improve, and maintain your life balance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Mentoring and technical assistance from volunteer or paid experts. If you don’t need these common resources, but need specialized technology services, you should look for technology parks and research facilities, often sponsored by leading companies in specific technologies, like Intel New Business Initiatives and Google Ventures.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

In a bid to help research from the University of Southern California reach the market, the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation said Wednesday afternoon that it is awarding $439,000 in gap funding to seven projects from USC, which have a high potential to spin out of the school.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

As a mentor to young aspiring entrepreneurs , I often get asked for tips on a strategy to get started. I favor the more cautious approach, and would offer the following insights to help you make the right decisions: Join a startup or take a role in an existing business. The ability to pivot quickly is a key to success.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 31, 2013

It was standing room only at StartEngine 's Demo Day Wednesday afternoon, held at Santa Monica's Cross Campus , as the startup accelerator launched eight of its latest startups into the world, after a 90 day process of mentoring, honing their business model, and heads down development. It's unclear.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2021

Kevin Cope, in his classic book “ Seeing the Big Picture ”, does a great job of outlining the basics of business acumen for executives, and helped me assimilate some practical ideas on building the essential elements for entrepreneurs: Reserve time daily to research the market, as well as technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Based on my own mentoring and investing experience, the best entrepreneurs are pragmatic problem solvers. If you can explain the problem to a mentor, or even write it down, you will more likely get to the root cause quickly, and avoid emotional and blame-infused responses. Explore solutions, outcomes, and options calmly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

A very credible starting point is the classic book “ Promote Yourself: The New Rules For Career Success ” by Dan Schawbel, managing partner of Millennial Branding, a Gen Y research and consulting firm. It can also help you better relate to others and become more self-aware. Gallup's Clifton Strength Finder. Career Key.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2016

The Techstars Health Accelerator recently set up shop in Los Angeles with Cedars- Sinai�the second, Techstars powered startup accelerator in the city--in a move to help healthcare startups get to market quicker. You mentioned a little bit about the mentoring, what what other benefits would companies get from becoming part of an accelerator?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2016

The Techstars Health Accelerator recently set up shop in Los Angeles with Cedars Sinai�the second, Techstars powered startup accelerator in the city--in a move to help healthcare startups get to market quicker. You mentioned a little bit about the mentoring, what what other benefits would companies get from becoming part of an accelerator?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 30, 2013

StartEngine provides $20,000 to $100,000 in funding to promising startups, and also offers up mentoring, office space, and help in getting those startups to the next stage. The eight startups are pitching their investors to startups at CrossCampus in Santa Monica this afternoon.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Research current success stories and role models. Find a business mentor, as well as a friend. A mentor is someone who will tell you what you need to hear, while a friend might tell you what you want to hear. Volunteer to help organizations related to your interest. You don’t learn anything while talking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Workship - Mentor. Unlike the mentor, who is a coach and teacher, the advocate inspires you to be the best that you can be. The communicator is always researching the latest info, and keeps you in the loop on what’s happening in the business and why. Workship - Advocate. Workship - Communicator.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

In my role as a mentor to business professionals and entrepreneurs over the years, I have found that it’s important to take a hard look at the relationships around you on a regular basis. But, like most other skills, you can learn from these priorities: Everyone benefits from active mentoring.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Most entrepreneurs are too stubborn to seek a mentor for guidance: They have so much confidence in themselves and their ideas that they don’t see the need to ask anyone for advice. Mentoring does not happen by accident, or require large stipends. Select mentors to fill your strength gaps.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2020

As a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, I often feel the frustration of someone trying to build a startup in the wrong place and time, and wrongly attributing their struggle to personal limitations. You need to be stimulated by easy access to many sources of learning and leadership, including universities, research, and other businesses.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2010

The group--which was started by Richard Koffler and John Morris , two well known investors in Los Angeles--has been trying to help connect CEOs with interesting university and other technology projects. If an existing company is not interested in licensing, and a researcher is not an entrepreneurial spirit, those projects go no where.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Additionally, research has revealed that the average age of the founders of technology companies in the United States is a surprisingly high 39 - with twice as many over age 50 as under age 25. With longer life expectancies and greater health in later life, older generations are moving to start new firms -- and mentor young entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2018

Some assume that the help will be too expensive or doesn’t exist, but I find that others are just horribly uncomfortable asking for any kind of help. I have found in business that other people are much more likely to help us than we realize, often for free or a later non-specific payback.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2015

His research concluded that CEOs who received high scores for character also achieved much higher business results – nearly five times the average return on assets (ROA) during the two-year period covered. Find and enjoy the company of one or more mentors. Sought and accepted help from many supportive people since childhood.

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